Anyone here remembers having an icebox?

[Archae]

Not a fridge, I mean an icebox, that used ice to keep food and drinks cold before fridges were popular.

I was just reading an article in our local weekly giveaway paper about how ice was "harvested" back in those days.

[The Blue Flower]

1. No, but my parents did

It was a generation before me, and I'm in my 70s.

[Archae]

2. They ever describe it to you?

[wnylib]

16. Same here. They sometimes called our fridge the ice box.

The only thing that I remember them saying about ice boxes is that the ice was delivered to homes, lime milk used to be delivered to houses.

[List left]

3. I remember having an icebox

Ice delivery truck and the tongs used to carry the blocks of ice. It was about 1955. one of my early memories

[CanonRay]

4. I have my grandmothers

circa 1918, solid oak. I keep wine in it.

[Archae]

5. Sounds like a real treasure for you.

Solid oak? Wow, I'll bet it's really heavy.

[Glorfindel]

6. I remember some of our neighbors having iceboxes

and seeing the ice delivered. We had a refrigerator as long as I can remember...late 40's -early 50's.

[Wounded Bear]

7. Dad always called it that, but we always had electric refridgerators...nt

[Ocelot II]

8. Never had one, but I remember my grandmother and my parents

referring to the refrigerator as the icebox, since they remembered the old non-electric ones. Grandma had a refrigerator with a cylindrical compressor on the top that vibrated so much that it would creep across the floor and periodically had to be pushed back against the wall.

[Cartoonist]

9. The old couple next to us had one.

They would get blocks of ice delivered. Us kids always pestered the delivery guy for shards of ice in the summer.

[cyclonefence]

11. When I was a kid,

our house had a little door about waist-high on the back stoop that opened into the pantry. The ice box would be backed up against it and the ice loaded directly into the icebox (which must've had a door or a sliding opening on the back to correspond with the stoop door. Thus the iceman could deliver a big block of ice directly to the icebox without bothering the lady of the house.

[Deuxcents]

12. I remember my grandmother having one..

I also remember milk being delivered to her door. When she finally got an electric “icebox” she thought she was in high heaven but still the milk got delivered n she scooped the cream off the top. My mom called our ‘fridge “icebox” n every once in a while, I’ll slip, too! Thanks for the good old day’s’ memories .. I suddenly feel old 🙀

[Fla Dem]

13. I don't specifically remember the icebox itself, but do remember the iceman delivering

big blocks of ice to our house. I was pretty young, so the block of ice probably made more of an impression on me than the appliance.

[yellowdogintexas]

14. I remember going to the icehouse in our little town

just a tiny little building near the railroad tracks

The ice blocks were layered with straw to insulate them.

I don't remember anyone in my family actually having one, but I think they may have before I was born

[UTUSN]

15. My ancient grandparents yes, but I call the all the newfangled fridge things "icebox"

[GenThePerservering]

17. I had one in my flat

the building was build in 1924 - I had a fridge, of course, but that former ice box was wonderful for keeping items cool as it was insulated and the door sealed really nicely when it was closed. I really miss that flat - I have a whole house, now, but I'd almost trade it for that 800 sqft fourplex.

I was raised a lot by my grandparents so grew up calling fridges the 'ice box' and still do - which makes my friends look at me a little funny lol, but it's habit by now.

[dmr]

18. To this day, I call our fridge the ice box. That's what my parents called it.

My adult son makes fun of me, but sometimes he slips up and says icebox, too!

Does anybody remember the coal man delivering coal for the furnace? What a scary mess that was, lol!