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Offered here is a very rare milk bottle in the quart size with "Donker's Sunshine Dairy Ridgecrest Calif." pyroglazed in red. The back of the bottle has "Use Sunshine Dairy Products For Your Health". According to Tom Chapman's 2003 book "Bottles of Eastern California, Donker's Sunshine Dairy operated from 1941-1945 and was located on East Bowman Road (near the new Wal Mart in south Ridgecrest) on the Bowman Ranch site. The dairy originally started in Atolia in 1933, but closed and relocated in Ridgecrest in 1941 due to the population growth in the Indian Wells Valley... |
