The Divco Club hosts a MILKMEN'S REUNION AND DIVCO CLUB CONVENTION every other year, in odd years. The event is open to anyone with an interest in the dairy industry, delivery trucks, or nostalgia.

Below are links to past events and some of the photos that were taken there.

Each year the Divco Club of America also participates with a display/booth in the swap meet area of the Fall AACA Regional Car Show in Hershey, PA. The club also hosts an annual dinner for Divco and Multi-Stop truck owners and fans at an area restaurant during the event.

2009 Midwest Milkmen's Reunion and Divco Club Convention - Bridgewater, Virginia
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2007 Midwest Milkmen's Reunion and Divco Club Convention - Cameron, Missouri
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2005 Midwest Milkmen's Reunion and Divco Club Convention was held June 22 - 25, in North Aurora, IL. Sponsored by the fine folks at Oberweis Dairy, and Johnson Truck Bodies it was three days of fun, activities, and fellowship. As always, ANYONE in the dairy industry, milkmen, former milkmen (and women) and their families were invited.

The previous one was held July 17 to 20, 2003, in Medina, Ohio: Sponsored by the Divco Club as part of our 2003 Convention, This was a gathering of milkmen and milk trucks on a scale never attempted in this century! ANYONE in the dairy industry, milkmen, former milkmen, (and women) and their families was invited and hundreds of members, guests and visitors came and enjoyed the event!!!

We relived the glory days of Home Delivery, and reminisce at "America's Ice Cream and Dairy Museum," enjoyed tours, special events, a huge milktruck paradea, and much more, including an old fashioned Ice Cream Social in the Public Square!!! Watch this space for upcoming postings of photos and comments about the biggest Divco event this century.

Here's what you missed in pictures (if you weren't there.)

(Sorry, haven't gotten pics of everything that happened. If you have photos we're missing, please e-mail them to us so we can include the best ones here! Thanks.)

THE EVENT: Started with a pre-convention pizza party at Elm Farm on Wednesday night. We went through over a dozen large pizzas, and all the servers were kept busy bringing more soda, lemonade and iced tea to the patio. The weather was perfect, and everyone had a chance for a sneak preview of the Dairy Museum, prior to the start of the next days...

TOURS: We ran a series of tours to locations all over Northern Ohio, with as many as four tours leaving each day.

Thursday's tours included an all day DIVCO HERITAGE TOUR to Detroit to visit sites where Divco Trucks were once made. The tour was conducted by Dr. Robert Ebert, who co-authored the Divco History book, and Dr. Larry Guinn, a noted auto historian. Another group made a visit to the DAIRYMEN'S MILK PROCESSING PLANT in Cleveland Ohio. Many who took the dairy tour opted to enjoy lunch at Cleveland's TOWER CITY MALL before an afternoon visit to the ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME. Others opted to take a CLEVELAND SIGHTSEEING AND SHOPPING TOUR. CLICK HERE to see some photos of Thursday's Tours.

Friday's tours featured a second DIVCO HERITAGE TOUR installment to Delaware, OH and to the warehouse in Central Ohio where a huge stock of NOS Divco Parts are stored (and for sale.) This tour was hosted by Divco History co-author John S. Rienzo, Jr., and Bob Giles. Friday's dairy tour visited SMITH'S DAIRY, "The Diary in the Country" in Orrville, OH. There was also an all day tour of Ohio's AMISH COUNTRY, and an afternoon visit to the PRO FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME in Canton, OH. CLICK HERE to see some photos of Friday's Tours. The tours all ended Firday night, just in time for the big...

DIVCO TRUCK PARADE from Elm Farm to the Medina Public Square, where, after twice around the park, the trucks were displayed in front of the ornate County Court House prior to the Friday Night Ice Cream Social and Band Concert. Thousands of local residents got a chance to view the trucks, both in motion, and on display, in a perfect evening, punctuated by great music, good food, and even the twinkle of lightning bugs across the parkland. CLICK HERE to see views of the Parade and Concert.

SATURDAY'S EVENTS included a big TRUCK SHOW at the America's Ice Cream and Dairy Museum, complete with multi-stop trucks of nearly every description, swap meet vendors, and more. In the early afternoon, the Ohio Historical Society dedicated a roadside marker at Elm Farm honoring the Dairy's contribution to the history of the area. As the truck display wound down, everyone greared up for the big...

Bison Roast which was served buffet style, with seating in colorful tents erected behind the dairy property. After the meal, we enjoyed a "premier" of an old Divco Factory Film from the 1950s, discovered by a collector, who made copies available for sale.

SUNDAY, following a sumptuous Closing Bruncheon at the Galaxy Restaurant in Wadsworth, OH, awards were presented for the truck show, and a special award was given to Carl & Sherry Abell, who hosted the convention/reunion. The awards were donated by Blue Sky Glass Studio, which custom designed the glass plaques using our convention logo. We also handed out netal dash plaques for participating trucks, and souvenir 1/2 pint milk bottles, with the Elm Farm and Convention/Reunion logos. The bottles were donated to the Divco Club by North America's foremost glass bottle manufacturer, Stanpac, of Ontario, Canada.

THE COMMUNITY: The host city for the Midwest Milkmen's Reunion and Divco Club Convention was Medina, Ohio, a Victorian Era community in Ohio's Western Reserve region. Located 30 miles S. of Cleveland and 18 miles W. of Akron near the intersections of I-71 and I-76, the community boasts century old homes and a quaint business district surrounding a picturesque Public Square, right out of "The Music Man." In fact, the Gazebo in the park still hosts Community Band Concerts every summer, complete with traditional Ice Cream Socials and community gatherings, And during our event, there was even a milk truck parade and display in front of the County Court House!

The historic air of the community might have fooled you. Medina is also home to a number of major industries. There are manufacuring, chemical proscessing, financial and communications businesses galore. But the name most people associate with the town is A. I. Root Co., the largest bee industry supplier in the world, and the firm that gives the town its nickname, "The Sweetest Town on Earth."

Medina is also home of our sponsoring venue, America's Ice Cream and Dairy Museum at Elm Farm. One of the finest dairy industry museums in the world, it is located in the plant of an actual dairy which served customers across Northern Ohio until 1979. While at the museum, reunion participated in truck shows, a historic marker dedication, a big Bison Roast, and ate gallons and gallons of home-made ice cream!

THE VENUE: America's Ice Cream and Dairy Museum at Elm Farm is located 2 mi. SW of Medina's Public Square, on Hwy 42. It is housed in the buildings of Elm Farm Dairy, a family-owned firm that supplied dairy products to many Northern Ohioans until 1979. Most of the structures remain, including the barn which housed the cattle, office buildings, garages for the Divco truck fleet, and the original family farmhouse.

Inside the museum, visitors can trace the history of milk production and delivery through a wide-ranging series of displays and exhibits. The collection includes an original 1800's soda fountain, a huge array of butter churns, cream separators, ice cream scoops and dishes, and even a variety of delivery vehicles. Most unique is a 1925 Divco Model A milk truck, the oldest Divco known to exist. There is also a very rare 1931 Divco Model H, the first "drop-frame" Divco delivery truck.

After visting the museum displays, guests can enjoy real frozen ice cream treats in the traditional Once Upon a Sundae ice cream parlor, built in the 1880's style, in what was originally the dairy proudcts cooler. The parlor features homemade ice cream using recepies saved and still prouced had by Elm Farm Dairy's resident ice cream maker, Carl Abell, who's father, Henry owned the dairy business. These are the ice cream tastes Northern Ohioans loved decades ago, brought back to life in the 21st Century. A gift shop is also available.

During the Convention and Reunion, the museum hosted a huge collection of Divco Milk Trucks and delivery trucks of other makes, brought in from all over the country by members of the Divco Club of America . There were also displays of dairyanna collectibles, milk bottles, and other "go-withs," saved by dedicated collectors, who have brought them just for this occasion. The event will also include swap meet sales, antique dealer booths, and dairyanna collector trades for people wishing to expand their own collections.

A full slate of activites and demonstrations also including butter churning, ice cream making, ice cream eating contests, and much more.