>From my earliest memory we always had an electric refrigerator. The one we had was a Fridiaire. It had that small metal box hanging down from the top right in the middle. It was just big enough to hold two ice cube trays. When we left Arkansas in 1945, the fridge and the ringer washing machine were both crated and shipped to "the house in the desert" because you could not buy such items yet. WWII was still on and many appliances were not yet available. Production was still going to the war effort. My first experience with an ice box was a couple of years after we moved to Arizona, maybe three or four. My dad got his first vacation from the job he got that enabled the rest of the family to join him in Arizona. He, my mother, myself and my twin brother went to Prescott, AZ on a greyhound bus and rented a room in a motel for three or four days. The least expensive accomodations were a group of four or five cabins at the back of the place. No refrigerators but they did have ice boxes. We got a 25 pound block of ice every day while we were there. It didn't cost much, maybe fifty cents. We had the cardboard sign to put in the window to let the ice man know what size block of ice we wanted. I don't remember if the cook stove was gas or if it burned coal or wood. It was an adventure for a couple of pre teens. I can remember seeing ice wagons (trucks) delivering ice to some of our neighbors when we lived in Arkansas. I remember the ice tongs and the leather on the ice man's back. That is the extent of my experience with delivered ice. After moving to Arizona we got an ice cream maker (the hand cranked kind). This was before you could buy crushed ice so when we wanted to make ice cream we had to take our Red Flyer wagon and walk about a mile or so to the ice house and buy a 25 pound block of ice, take it home, use the ice pick to chip it up for use in the ice cream maker. Twin brother and I were always the ones to turn the crank. It took about half an hour but it sure was worth it. Robert E Paty Scottsdale, AZ aka Mad Hatter > From: sullysoil66@msn.com > To: memory-lane@rootsweb.com > Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:48:28 -0700 > Subject: Re: [ML] Ice man > > > MWe also had a Ice man, I remember he would park out front of my mother and grandmothers house. He had a ice pick, and would use it to pick a block of ice to the right size, than he had a big hook, would pick the block of ice up and with the hook still in has hands, he placed it on this big piece of leather he had over his shoulder, to keep the ice from making contact with his shoulder, to keep the cold and ice block from getting him wet too. In hot weather the ice man would also chip off some chips of ice for us kids, and we gladly put them in our mouths to suck on, it was a treat for me. My grandmother who was Mrs. clean, always told the ice man, to clean his shoes before coming into her house. I don't remember how many times he came a week, but it was several when the weather was hot. I much prefer the refrigerator we have now, but it was a little treat in our weekly lives. > > Sully > > > > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message