[jy8z]

My kids and grand kids have heard that term and explanation from me. I have always referred to what is now called a convenience store as an ice house. They all wanted to know why I did that. Hence the explanation of an ice box. I still have the ice tongs my dad used to carry the block of ice he would purchase from the ice house.

I do have early pics of my brothers and me standing in front of the ice box from the early sixties.

[jmacusa]

Wow. That's a vanished America, huh? As I was telling another FReeper I never saw the ice man but I sure remember the guy with the fruit truck who'd come by yelling “Strawberries!’’ “Fresh oranges!'' And the guy with the sharpening stone who'd ring a bell as he came through the neighborhood.