"icebox"

[Paul Johnston]

Icebox is what my New Yorker parents (b. 1904, 1906) called it all the time, right to the end.

Paul Johnston
On Apr 27, 2013, at 9:33 PM, paul johnson <paulzjoh at MTNHOME.COM> wrote:

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> At 78 grew up in Chicago, lived in several apartment building where
> there were doors for icemen to refill your icebox wiothout coming in the
> house, even though we had either gas or electric refrigerators. Some
> sort of weekly or monthly tally like the milkmen.  I also remember 3
> times a week bread and pastry deliveries  Most of that was all gone by 1949.
> Icebox sounds normal to me but reflection says I use Frig most of the time.
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> On 4/27/2013 7:40 PM, Dan Goodman wrote:
>> I used to say "icebox" for refrigerator.  Have stopped because people
>> were looking at me funny.
>>
>> Is this a generational change?  (I'm 70.)  Or a difference between
>> Hudson Valley and Twin Cities speech?
>>
>> Or possibly both, or some alternative which didn't occur to me.
>>
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