[ETL]

[My] fridge is so old, the service manual is in cuneiform.

A. Old Norwegian icebox. The ice was placed in the drawer above the door.

B.Typical Victorian icebox highboy model.
The model is made out as a fine piece of oak furniture.
Note tin or zinc shelving and door lining.

C. An exclusive oak cabinet icebox that would be found in the well-to-do homes.
Note the fancy hardware and latches.
Ice goes in the left upper door.
This model probably has a pull-out drip tray.

Popular Culture

In the 1950s television show The Honeymooners, the Kramdens’ apartment featured an ice box to emphasize their financially strapped working class living conditions.
(By the 1950s most families used an electric refrigerator.)

http://www.thefullwiki.org/Icebox

:)

[SunkenCiv]

30 or so years ago the realtor I was working with at the time took me through a house, vacant, had been owned by the survivor of a couple who had started a successful local lumber company (still around today). Immaculate, but looked like it hadn't been updated in dacades. Upstairs (oddly, a storey and a half, so, those annoying slanted ceilings) there was an old fridge... hmm, this post epitomizes the irrelevant sidebar, but 'Civ is gonna plunge on... and it was pre-freon, used sulphur dioxide. Often I almost wished I'd have made the heirs an offer for the fridge. :^)

[Pontiac]

Typical Victorian icebox highboy model. The model is made out as a fine piece of oak furniture.

We had one of these in our basement when I was a kid. It had the lid on top for with the compartment for the block of ice

My grandfather as a young man delivered ice. He had stories that at many deliveries the customer would share a shot of whiskey with him so at the end of the day he would be pretty much in the bag.

The other story was that in the summer neighbor hood kids would be stealing slivers of ice out of his wagon while he was carrying ice into a house.