The thing abut the ice box was that someone had to empty the drip pan under the bottom of the thing. Well, after awhile, the pan ran over and the floor became rotten. Then there was a hole at the bottom where the water dripped under the house. Made a great place for digging fish bait under the house! We also had an old kerosen stove with a small metal over that could be used to place on one of the burners for baking. Now, lets all tell our ages!!!! My grandmother used to trade eggs for thread and the like and then give us all a piece of candy. The rolling store usually had a chicken coop tied under the read or on the side in which to store the chickens. At the start of WWII we lived next to our landlady's cow pasture. When the war started those fence posts (fat lighterd) were big and round and fat. At the end of the war we had shaved so many splinters for kindling, that they were mighty thin! My grandmother came to live with us, and every morning would rinse out the chamber pot (slop jar, etc) and place it upside down on one of those fence posts!! We had a Sears catalogue in our outhouse. I went to Camilla, GA to visit my great uncle, who had a two holer, and Wards catalogue. I thought he must have been rich!! Never had seen a two holer! The last time that I was in RVN, in 1970, we had a four holer. If one visited at night, you had to be mightly careful. The seats were so high that the Vietnamese working for us could not reach them, and would often do their business on the floor!!

Got a good laugh from your post,oh me,yep I member emptying that pan under the ice box.. ----- Original Message ----- From: <JohnArden@aol.com> To: <FLHOLMES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 10:59 AM Subject: Re: [FLHOLMES] Ice Truck > The thing abut the ice box was that someone had to empty the drip pan under > the > bottom of the thing. Well, after awhile, the pan ran over and the floor > became rotten. > Then there was a hole at the bottom where the water dripped under the house. > Made a great place for digging fish bait under the house! We also had an old > kerosen > stove with a small metal over that could be used to place on one of the > burners for > baking. Now, lets all tell our ages!!!! My grandmother used to trade eggs > for thread > and the like and then give us all a piece of candy. The rolling store > usually had a > chicken coop tied under the read or on the side in which to store the > chickens. > At the start of WWII we lived next to our landlady's cow pasture. When the > war started those fence posts (fat lighterd) were big and round and fat. At > the end of the > war we had shaved so many splinters for kindling, that they were mighty thin! > My grandmother came to live with us, and every morning would rinse out the > chamber pot (slop jar, etc) and place it upside down on one of those fence > posts!! > We had a Sears catalogue in our outhouse. I went to Camilla, GA to visit my > great uncle, who had a two holer, and Wards catalogue. I thought he must > have been > rich!! Never had seen a two holer! The last time that I was in RVN, in > 1970, we had > a four holer. If one visited at night, you had to be mightly careful. The > seats were so > high that the Vietnamese working for us could not reach them, and would often > do their business on the floor!! > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >