Did the iceman ever deliver blocks of ice?

Question

Or did you have to go to where they made the blocks to get it for your icebox?

When I was about 5 they stopped delivering and my Dad would sometimes let us go with him to the icehouse to pick up a couple of blocks. Finally got a refrigerator when I was either 7 or 8. Hard to remember when.

Answer 1

Yup, I remember 'the ice man cometh'...with those big tongs, and our brown wooden ice box. My grandparents called the electric fridge 'the ICE BOX' for years.

Answer 2

That's something I never got to see on my street. Everyone
had refrigerators when I moved at the age of three to a new
big house a block away from where I'd lived previously.
My best friend on that new street, had a house with an
indoor back porch, and she showed me where the ice man
had delivered ice and set it inside a cupboard on that
porch, and her mom would go out and chip away at it and
put some in the freezer part of her icebox at one time.
The same refrigerator I grew up with, was eventually put
into a third house that was new and modern. And it went
down into the family room later to be used for extra storage
and also for parties as well. It was older than me, and it
was still running strong when I was last there. They sure
don't make appliances like they used to, do they?

Answer 3

Yes, we had an Wooden Ice box until I was about 5 years old.

My sister-in- laws father was the Ice Man and delivered ice blocks to all the homes and businesses.

It was a great day, when we owned our first fridge.

It had the refrigerant in a round apparatus on the top of the fridge.

It was the same year that we got indoor plumbing.

That was the day my dad, set fire to the out house.

Wow, it sounds like we go back in time a ways.

Actually, those really were the good old days, that we will never see again.

Thanks for the memories.

Answer 4

I have seen the cards used to indicate to the delivery man how much to leave us in some antique stores. If only we knew that someday these would be collector's items. The first house my parents bought had a door in the wall from which the iceman could leave the ice. This was the outside door to the indoor icebox. My father removed this because by that time we had a gas refrigerator and no longer needed the ice.

Answer 5

I have vague memories of playing in the water drip pan from under the ice box. I must have been two or three. I seem to remember a man carrying a block of ice with huge tongs.
I do remember quite well the gas refrigerator. It had a round thing on top and it developed a leak. The fire department had to come. Dad had to haul it to the dump and buy another refrigerator.

Answer 6

Oh yes, and he would let us children, have a big sliver just to wrap in a newspaper and enjoy for hours. I remember the ice tongs and how he would strain to lift the ice block and carry it in the house, I remember emptying the pan under the icebox. And I still tell my son something is in the icebox. Shows my age. You know those old ice boxes make nice cabinets if you can find one and restore them.

Answer 7

Yes , I lived in an 2ND floor apt. in Louisville, Ky in the 40s. you would put a little sign in the window showing what size block of ice you wanted. The iceman would then chip it out from a large block and bring up to you.
Ice day was a big event for us kids , when the Iceman would leave the truck to make a delivery .We would grab chips of ice off the back to eat. We followed him down the block like seabirds following a shrimp boat.

Answer 8

We had a refrigerator but when we went on car trips or pick nicks Dad went to the ice house and got a block of ice for the cooler.

Answer 9

When I was 3, we moved away from a town near NYC. I have a memory of that summer -- we little tots crowding around the back of the ice delivery truck. The iceman chopped off slivers with his pick and gave each of us a nice "popsicle". A lot of people still had the old ice boxes in the 1950's and would get ice for them in the summer so they could keep extra cold drinks on hand. I remember my parents had one in the cellar with bottles of soda in it.

Answer 10

I do have an previous ice field on my patio for a verbal exchange piece. it extremely is referred to as an Alaska Ice field and alter into made in 1923, so i'm guessing they predicted to have ice packing packing containers around for a while to return back interior the 20's. Now a deceased Aunt of mine exchange into telling me some years back (whilst she exchange into alive i might upload) that they had the ice introduced sometime around might (Northern Mass), someplace interior the region of fifty blocks that her Dad might put in the ice living house (a great insulated shed that my Aunt later became right into a sauna), and that the ice exchange into chipped from some lake interior the section. they might placed the ice block interior the ice field an mind-blowing style of the summer season to have chilly stuff, whilst a block melted they might get yet another from the ice living house. She stated that sometime interior the later area of August the ice might all be long gone and that they only did no longer have something less warm than the night temperature might desire to cool. and of direction entering into Fall then wintry climate they have been in a position to maintain issues cool back by utilizing utilizing the organic chilly air from outdoors. besides the certainty that a number of your solutions looked as though it would think of they have been telling a comedian tale, at present's' ice chest do act as an ice field. yet i do no longer think of many may be interested in making particular their ice chest continually had sufficient ice for every day use of we could say each week end on the lake:).

Answer 11

When I was litte we lived with my Grandmother, she had a small ice-box The iceman came with a truck and delivered ice . We used to run out to the back of the truck and get the ice chips.She never did get a refridgerator. Those were the fun days!