Before refrigerators, did the iceman deliver 50 or 100 pounds of ice?Did it have to be replaced everyday? What

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happened on the weekend, since I am sure there was no delivery on Sundays in many places? Anyone remember?

Answer 1

We had a "Ice box" until the fifties. The ice man would come aorund everyday and deliver 25 pounds, this was all the "ice box" would hold. It was 10 cents.
The scare then was "the kids eating the ice were getting polio"

There was a drip pan under the Ice box that had to be emptied all the time or we'd have a trickle of water running across the floor the little ones would get into.

Answer 2

I have been told before refrigerators people had "ice boxes" in their kitchen. The "iceman" would come every few days including weekends during summer especially and deliver ice blocks. Under the ice box was a drip pan for the melting ice.

Answer 3

I supposed that varied. In the northern plains in the 1800s, military posts along rivers would dig caves lined with sawdust, cut river ice in the winter and place it in the caves. Ice would be rationed out and post perishables stored within and it would last all summer. With good insulation, a block of ice lasts quite a while.

I suspect a hundred pounds per month in the summer would be about normal. many things were kept cool simply by building a storage room on the north side with a low ventillation on one side and a high one on the other or basements, root cellars, butter caves, etc used the high insulating properties of dirt to keep things cool.

Answer 4

Well from what I recalled, since they lived so close to the glaciers, they did not have to go too far for ice. They just took a few steps out of the caves, cut a few blocks of ice, and dragged it back into the lair. Actually the females did it, and the cooking and cleaning. The males were a bunch of lazy do-nothings doing wall paintings all day long.

Answer 5

50 pounds. ye-hey and i earned a point while i answer it. keep asking, no?