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.
without reading ahead, i know why it's called an ice-box. we had one until i was five. if you lived in the country or had no electricity or were poor, you had an icebox instead of a refrigerator. i remember the iceman coming and you told him how much ice you wanted (say, a nickel's worth, or a dime's) and he would chip off exactly the right size piece. it went into the ice-box off to one side and your food into the other. the melting water drained into a pan underneath. sometimes, in the summer, the man gave you a little chip of ice to suck on.
ask your mom if that makes me an antique. :mrgreen: