[NJARC] A Blast from the past...

[Aaron Hunter]

In the early '50s, my mother would drive us to the shore in her '39 Ford 
and stop at the Avalon ice house to get a block loaded onto the front 
bumper.  Then we would go to the cottage and put it in the ice box.  

The house I now live in started out as a summer house, log cabin built 
in 1936.  My Aunt didn't have electricity installed untill 1952 and I 
had a well sunk in 1971.  So I can remember the kerosene lights, 
listening to music on the Victrola and hauling glass (apple cider) 
bottles to the community well for water.  Still have the kerosene lamps 
and Victrola but don't miss hauling the water.  And the community well 
is still being used.

I don't remember the "ice man", but do remember the "rag man" and his 
wagon in Philly.  And I can remember reading the magazine section of the 
Philadelphia Inquirer about replacing the horse drawn milk wagon with 
trucks.  The milk men were not happy about it since the horse would 
follow them on their rounds.  Now they have to retrace their steps to 
get back to the truck

Aaron.

radiomf at comcast.net wrote:

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>Not only do I remember every one of those things, I remember that the levered metal ice cube tray was a new  improvement over the older ones that you had to put warm water over, and bang them out onto the countertop. I even remember the "ice man" with a horse drawn wagon. We did not have an ice box however.
>Marty F.
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