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Toter Tot: 1913
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 12/15/2007 - 5:39pm.
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April 1913. Columbus, Georgia. "Eagle and Phoenix Mill. A 'dinner-toter' waiting for the gate to open. This is carried on more in Columbus than in any other city I know, and by smaller children. Many of them are paid by the week for doing it, and carry sometimes 10 or more meals a day. They go around in the mill, often help tend to the machines, which often run at noon, and so learn the work. A teacher told me the mothers expect the children to learn this way, long before they are of proper age." View full size. Photo and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine.
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Dinner toter
Submitted by cat718 on Sat, 12/15/2007 - 11:42pm.
Growing up in Phenix City (known as Sin City in the 1950s, across the river from Columbus), my husband's uncle was quite the entrepreneur, and started his own business as a "dinner toter" in his childhood.
Being a true Southerner at age 53, I still refer to the evening meal as "supper." It bothers me that the word has gone out of vogue with today's "Yankee-fied" young people.
Lunch Carrier
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Sat, 12/15/2007 - 6:14pm.
I grew up in the South, and in the process of making myself more "sophisticated," stopped using "tote" for "carry" and "dinner" for "lunch" since I considered such word usage as class markers.
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