Remember then?🧊🚚

[Floyd R. Turbo]

[markie]

1. yah....

I'm that old

[Floyd R. Turbo]

2. Welcome to the club! 🧊

[markie]

3. I used to live off the grid

and used an "icebox"

and I know they used to bury the ice in sawdust to keep it cold.... I'm that old

I'm so old, I went to a one-room schoolhouse

[dweller]

4. My grandfather had that job

and later started an ice delivery service . Later expanded it to fuels , and then a transportation company .
I never knew him as he died before my mom ( his daughter) and dad were even married. He and my grandmother had 10 kids and most worked in his company , or one he started .
I understand he had massive shoulders from carrying ice blocks in his teenage years .


✌🏻

[Floyd R. Turbo]

9. Cool history!

[johnp3907]

5. When Tom Waits had a day job?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

10. 😁

[GiqueCee]

6. I don't remember block ice...

... but I do remember my grandparents' milk being delivered by a horse-drawn wagon. The delivery man used an old curling stone to tether the horse while he made deliveries. This was in early fifties Toronto.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

11. Very cool!

[cachukis]

7. This guy looks like a hipster.

Watched the guy on my street unload his truck.
He had a leather shawl over his shoulder where he slung his block. Lugged it up stairs in the triple deckers. Had a dozen stops in the 50's within eyesight.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

12. Ice hipster! 😁

[LoisB]

8. Sure do. I never saw our ice man this unkempt though.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

13. The end of a hard day!