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Any of you youngsters ever see one?

My grandparents had one at the cabin in 1949.

There was one in a shed on the farm, not in use.

They talked on the radio, that the doors should be removed so children playing would not get locked in, and suffocate.

I wish I had both back now. $$$$$

Children or radio?

My grandfather used one until '59 or 60. Would have used it longer but the ice truck stopped the route & he finally bought a fridge. Block ice was still available in town but papaw lived 12 miles away & he didn't have Yeti cooler at the time.

The huckster quit running routes about that time as well.

I have seen them before....when I lived in the bush. We also put up a large supply of ice to sell to people who visited the remote fishing lodge.

Kids did get locked in them and in old fridges, too, until the government mandated magnetic latches like we have today. Kids died in them.

We didn't have an ice box like that.
That's a nice piece of furniture.

Mom called the galvanized box setting on the front porch the ice box. The local milk man would drop off glass jars of fresh milk each week and pick up the empties. It was just an insulated box until Mom could get it into the electric refrigerator. I Think it's in the attic. The ice box.

My wife's parents had one that had been rescued and restored from the farm in ND. Her mom used it to store her china. Wife's brother has it now.

My Grandmother, used a ice box in her kitchen, there was a guy that drove a ice wagon he pulled by a grey mare, he would come by every few day's, and bring block ice, he would chip a block that would fit in the icebox and carry it in with ice tongs on his shoulder, us kids would get the ice chips to suck on, we thought it was a big treat. Rio7

They are highly sought after antique$!!!

I remember the fridges with big condensers on top. Introduced in 1927, sold for 300.00.

Monitor top

I have seen a whole bunch of those. My father grew up with one and there was still one for years as long as I can remember on my grandmothers back porch. She didn’t use it as an ice box when I was growing up, but used it for a number of items- especially fruit and veggies that didn’t need to be refrigerated.
Later on my father used to buy them and refinish them in the ‘70’s and ‘80’s. He sold them in a antique shop after he retired at age 50. They were a hot item and people loved them. People would often use them to use for wine storage ( without the ice). Those ice boxes were one of his hottest selling items. I have seen some ones that were beautiful works of art.


My fathers hobby and at one time profession after retiring was in antiques. All of the furniture in our house growing up was antiques. At one time I asked my father why, and he said when they got married in 1958 and had a couple kids early on; one of the least expensive ways to get furniture was antiques. He would restore and re- finish them and was a master at doing that. Plus he said they ( antiques in general) were a lot better quality than buying new- and that was even in pre- IKEA 1959/1960. Plus, the town we lived in was on the border of Pennsylvania in Upstate NY. Older good antique furniture was plentiful in the farm land auctions and estate sales. Some of my fondest memories were spent out on those farms during an auction. Me and my cousins got into all kinds of mischief.

Seeing that pic and this thread brought back all sorts of memories. I have lifted and carried hundreds of those when I was young.

Now I'll have to take a picture of the Frigidaire that replaced the box at the cabin.

Theres a tavern in northern NYS that has been there forever.
They still have the original Oak ice boxes in the kitchen. A local mechanical maven converted them to refrigeration so they are still n use.

My great aunt had one in a shed. It was not in good shape, but she didn't want to get rid of it. Sometime in the last 30 years, it disappeared.

Had a neighbor in S. La. that bought one of the old refrigerators with the condenser and motor on top at an auction. It was in really good condition, but the elect. cord was bad. On a whim, he replaced the cord, and it ran fine. Took his fridge out of the kitchen, put it in the utility room, and put the old one in the kitchen. You had to really listen to hear it running, a lot quieter than the ones made today.

They were common when my dad was a boy. One of his teenage jobs was helping the ice man deliver ice. Dad loved to tell the story of one very hot August when you could deliver a 50# block of ice to a 10th floor apartment and slip it under the door.

GRIZZ is papering everything with this picture.

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The Frigidaire that replaced the icebox at the cabin. It must be as old as I am.

We had two of them,still in use back in the 50's. I think they are still in the basement of my folk's
where my brother lives now.

My icebox is marked as being made by Herrick, Waterloo Iowa. It sits in our living room as an entertainment center.