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[Laurence Horn]

At 11:39 PM -0500 2/27/05, Wilson Gray wrote:
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>I remember the "need ice" sign as being exactly as you describe it. I
>recall that the brand name of the icebox was "Coolerator." Frigidaires
>were originally manufactured by GM. I googled it. Coolerator made
>electric fridges, too. But, when we upgraded to electric, we got a
>Kelvinator. For a while, we borrowed a gas-powered Servel from my
>mother's sister. Remember those? How about the Crosley Shelvador?
>
>-Wilson Gray

The Crosley Shelvador...ah yes, I remember it well.  When I was a
(non-post-doc) post-doc at MIT in 1971-72, the old fridge/ice box for
graduate student use in one of the corridors of the linguistics
quarters in the late Building 20 (can't recall if it was the D wing
or E wing) was a Crosley Shelvador, and some of the graduate students
(this was the era of Lasnik, Fiengo, Wasow, Prince, et al.) decided
that this would be our "Bourbaki", so that squibs would be submitted
as authored by Crosley Shelvador, acknowledgments in papers would
express gratitude to Crosley Shelvador, and so on.  Can't recall
(this was 33 years ago, and memories of even important events of this
kind do tend to fade over time, as Maurice Chevalier reminded us) how
far we progressed with this scam, or what became of the eponymous
Crosley himself.

larry