I'm that old

and used an "icebox"

and I know they used to bury the ice in sawdust to keep it cold.... I'm that old

I'm so old, I went to a one-room schoolhouse

and later started an ice delivery service . Later expanded it to fuels , and then a transportation company .
I never knew him as he died before my mom ( his daughter) and dad were even married. He and my grandmother had 10 kids and most worked in his company , or one he started .
I understand he had massive shoulders from carrying ice blocks in his teenage years .


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... but I do remember my grandparents' milk being delivered by a horse-drawn wagon. The delivery man used an old curling stone to tether the horse while he made deliveries. This was in early fifties Toronto.

Watched the guy on my street unload his truck.
He had a leather shawl over his shoulder where he slung his block. Lugged it up stairs in the triple deckers. Had a dozen stops in the 50's within eyesight.