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OMG I am really old. I was born in 1940. I remember when the ice wagon came rumbling down the street. A horse or mule drawn wagon with blocks of ice for sale. Vegetables came the same way. As for gas stations services, they had a little broom and asked if your "floor boards" needed sweeping out. LOL It was another world.

While I'm a wee bit younger than you, I remember the icehouses we had- a little one in the Village, and the big one on the mainland which also sold... get this!... coal. Some folks still had iceboxes and burned coal for heat. My Dad used the ice to keep his bait and fish fresh when we went out on the water for a day. Good memories.

That is amazing. I remember people using the terms floor boards and running boards. Seems like language goes on a little further than the things themselves such as when is the last time you "dialed" a phone. That is funny! I never saw a floor board broom but I can imagine it.

Some things were kind of sad. Pets seemed to have shorter life spans and there were a lot of stray dogs and cats in the neighborhoods. I remember children with things like cleft palates did not get treated as routinely as nowadays. I remember going to get polio vaccinations or shots or whatever they were. They also gave you a sugar cube or something.

Hah! Remember how your telephone was on a party line and you'd pick up the receiver to make a call and people would be yakking away. When I got into junior high school my father became so worried about his ailing mother we paid extra to have a private line. Just imagine nowadays patiently waiting for your neighbors to get off the phone so you can call someone! You know there'd be murders over that!