So she asked, ‘Where was the family ice box?”

  Memorable Trucks from The Past:

 The ICE TRUCK was a familiar site up until the mid 1950s. When the ice slid off the truck it peeled some ice slivers. Kids followed the truck and raced to get the shavings to eat or make 'snow balls' in the summer.

For today:

I know my entries are OLD memories, and these last few weeks have generated even more. We started talking about getting groceries. I have been doing that now for weeks. Sherry went to pick up her blood pressure meds yesterday. It was raining and I dropped her at the door and picked her up.

Her family shopped for groceries on Wednesday and mine shopped on Monday. The groceries were delivered by a kid in a pickup truck. He went in the back door without knocking and left them on the table. No one signed for anything.

I remember once during summer shower our grocer used a can of Morton salt to write on the sidewalk under his awning, “When it rains it pours!” That was the ad Morton used. I remember thinking, “How can he waste that much salt?”

The grocery stores were for many years’ just small mom and pop stores that ran a ‘bill’ in an old tablet. Daddy always gave mama’s grocery list to the grocer and paid for last weeks groceries. Sherry remembered when the A & P came to Belmont. She said after that, her mama shopped.

Sherry was remembering their ‘Crosley’ refrigerator. It had a small freezer for 2 trays of ice; we all did.  I remember the small area beside the Ice tray area was the coldest, usually for milk. There was a drip pan under the refer for the water that was not caught during defrosting to drip into.

So she asked, “Where was your mama’s ice box before her Crosley? Ours was on the back porch.”

(I never saw an ice box this fancy.)

(Most ice boxes were simply an insulated box like this one)

“Ours was in the kitchen. Mama would put the card in the window saying how many pounds of ice she wanted, According to how the card was turned the ice man would carry it thru the house and put it in the ice box.

(On Ice days this card was in the window, the amount UP is what the ice man delivered.)

 Daddy made a hole in the kitchen floor for the water to drip out into the area under the house. That kept from having a drip pan to empty.”

She said, “We always had to empty the drip pan, someone was assigned the chore to do that and there were times they forgot and it ran over.”

Sherry pointed to our refrigerator/freezer, “We are so blessed now, huh?”

Yes we are. Forgive the memory trail, we are having fun remembering and counting our blessings.   We fuss about changes today in this electronic age BUT THERE ARE SOME CHANGES THAT ONLY OLD PEOPLE CAN APPRECIATE.

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PS:

Just got a read on MA, she had internet problems.  Good to hear!