Memories IV by jeditojan
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This is a real memory because it is in color.
One winter when I was around 7 or 8, our refrigerator quit working. Mom put an orange crate in the window to keep milk and other items cool. The crate was far enough out that we could close the window. I thought it was really neat.
Many years later my sister told me that we did not have a refrigerator, it was an ice box. An ice box is cooled by a block of ice that the ice man delivers every day. Mom had not paid the ice man so he quit delivering the blocks of ice.
I did not realize how hard it would be to find a picture of a crate in a window. I never did find one so I had to make one.
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whaleman
That's a great memory and you made it quite well! I remember ice boxes very well as we had them for years at our cabin at Fallis, Alberta. I once helped Gus, the local ice man with his blocks of ice which he sawed directly out of the ice on the lake in the winter and loaded them on a horse-drawn wagon and stored them in a large room dug into the side of a hill, all covered in a thick layer of sawdust he got free from a saw mill ten miles away. The blocks kept almost their original size until the next summer when he sold it in chunks to local people. It is still a fond memory for me!