"icebox"

[Benjamin Torbert]

"Gone by 1949" is funny to me, because my father grew up in what sort of
amounts to Little House on the Prairie in Hector, Minnesota.  He was born
in 1939.  He refers to 1950 as "the year everything changed" which included
removal of the horse hitching posts on Main Street, but also cessation of
home delivery of dairy.


On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 8:33 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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