[MamaB]

I think it is Emerill or however you spell his name who calls it an ice box. I do not watch him enough to know if that is what he calls it all the time. An ice box is something in the ole days where people kept their piece of ice. I can remember going to an ice plant when I was very young and seeing all the 100 lbs of ice being taken out of the freezer. What did they use to freeze it? I can remember that it really smelled! We had both. There is nothing better than homemade ice cream made from chips of ice from the ice plant. After they did that, my younger sister and I would scrape the ice off the sides of the machine. It was like a snowball in the hot summer days in MS.

I can also remember the huge watermelons that were kept in the ice room for customers. I often wondered why they did not freeze.

[beaversmom]

Growing up we always used the term ice box. Now we call it a fridge.

[4kids dad]

around here in Il they used to cut the ice out of the river and store it in underground areas to keep it frozen for the summer months.

[Mo1]

An ice box is something in the ole days where people kept their piece of ice

I remember mom telling me of the stories of them and about the guys delivering the ice to homes

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

I do not watch him enough to know if that is what he calls it all the time. An ice box is something in the ole days where people kept their piece of ice. I can remember going to an ice plant when I was very young and seeing all the 100 lbs of ice being taken out of the freezer. What did they use to freeze it?

I grew up in central Illinois. When I was a toddler in the early 1960's, we still had an "icebox" and the Ice Man really did Cometh, every few days. The ice apparently was "imported" from someplace like MN, and stored in a place where it melted VERRRRRRRRRY slowly before being delivered to our house. :-)