Date:  Mon, 2 Oct 1995 09:45:15 EDT

From:  David Bergdahl <bergdahl[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAXA.CATS.OHIOU.EDU>

Subject: icebox



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  Date: 02-Oct-1995 09:36am EST



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  From: David Bergdahl               Dept: English

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Subject: icebox





b. 1940 Brooklyn, lived on Long Island since '42: we had an icebox until the

early 50's; the iceman came regularly just as the milk- and breadman did. I

remember added the water to my fish tanks (NEVER acquaria!) in the winter when

evaporation was a problem. Maybe the variable in this discussion that's been

overlooked is the size of the urban area. The iceman came until it was

economically impractical to do so, so that smaller places "lost" their

iceboxes before larger ones. No one I knew went down to the river and cut

blocks of ice: it had to be delivered to a warehouse & stored all summer in

sawdust. In all probability the NYC area had ice from upstate or NE rather than

the Hudson anyway.



Anyway, what I'm reading on the list the last few days is that "iceboxes" can be

remembered by people in their 50's in NY but only as hearsay from grandparentsin

other places.

BERGDAHL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAXA.CATS.OHIOU.EDU

David Bergdahl Ohio University/Athens

"Where Appalachia meets the Midwest"







Received: 02-Oct-1995 09:45am