Originally Posted by Rhonda
Do you know why it was called an ice box? My mom was an antique dealer so I have seen the real ice boxes.
We used to buy blocks of ice from the ice plant for the ice box which was on the back porch. The kids used to get the ice chips when the ice man delivered the ice. We had to keep a pan under the ice box for the melted water to and watch it because it would sometimes runover and what a mess to clean up.