They still cut ice in Maine. Thompson's runs a commercial tourist racket Ice House.
Places I know further north do museum type demonstration; Curran's even built a new ice-house in 2020. Wakefield, NH and Lansing, Iowa do it too. There's a YouTube of the Ice Train, where many-many tons of ice were shipped to Boston and points south. Ice used to be a large part of the Down East economy. The rise of mechanical ice in the 1940s was a major disruptor.
Maine shipped more ice than lumber (and Bangor was Lumber Capital for a century). Wood keeps better than ice.
Places I know further north do museum type demonstration; Curran's even built a new ice-house in 2020. Wakefield, NH and Lansing, Iowa do it too. There's a YouTube of the Ice Train, where many-many tons of ice were shipped to Boston and points south. Ice used to be a large part of the Down East economy. The rise of mechanical ice in the 1940s was a major disruptor.
Maine shipped more ice than lumber (and Bangor was Lumber Capital for a century). Wood keeps better than ice.
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I grew up in rural Dade County Florida, Southwest of Miami. We didn't have an iceman, but we did have the McArthur Dairy home delivery truck (Milkman). He would sell little cartons of milk, orange juice, or lemonade directly to kids on bicycles for 5 cents each. Yeah, it was the late 50's. We still had a Woolworth five and dime, with a large chrome soda fountain for that Cherry Coke or Root Beer Float on the way home from church.
McArthur was the largest dairy in Florida. It covered most of the western half of Broward County (North of Miami). When I left Miami in 1973 for my career at Motorola in Western Broward County the plant was surrounded by cows for as far as you could see. Now all the cows are gone and it's wall to wall houses and 7+ million people from south of Miami to the northern end of Palm Beach County. That's one of the main reasons I moved out of Florida when I retired.
Our dog goes mental for cold potatoes and fish skin. Loads of protein in the skin.
I must be about the same age, because I also remember this clearly. It was a horse-drawn carriage and the iceman shouted loudly. But rich people had gas operated fridge, a gaslight miraculously turned the interior of the box cool. Later in the 60's we also had a real electric refrigerator that I would swap with our current fridge any time.
I'm giving out my personal credit card information to anyone who wants it.
It’s several shades of blue, very thin, about 3” wide and 2” high and has little raised numbers and letters on it. It has what looks like a SIM card on one end and a WiFi symbol looking thingy on the front. There's a bunch of tiny words, some additional numbers and a long solid black section on the back.
It’s several shades of blue, very thin, about 3” wide and 2” high and has little raised numbers and letters on it. It has what looks like a SIM card on one end and a WiFi symbol looking thingy on the front. There's a bunch of tiny words, some additional numbers and a long solid black section on the back.
I was born into a prefab - a post WW2 prefabricated house.
It may have been utilitarian, but it did come fitted with a gas fridge!
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If contactless cards are being hacked, would a Mu-metal wallet be the answer? The only " card " transaction I make over the internet is £ 25 amazon gift cards ( there's a surprising amount of circuit boards ( amps/dacs) and drivers on amazon ) and I only draw money out of cash machines in banks to reduce the chance of a card catcher, plus I don't want everyone in the street watching me take money out, and which pocket I stuff it in.
I may be sticking my neck out, but is that a giraffatitan?
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But why does it have that guilty look as if it brought in something it wasn't supposed to? 🤔
I thought Finnish men already know how to deal with cold weather...
https://nypost.com/2022/02/20/finla...rS5FrQn6L5zKZarXXpxEkeLrDCl8GCQe-7PJKidRPsvmA
https://nypost.com/2022/02/20/finla...rS5FrQn6L5zKZarXXpxEkeLrDCl8GCQe-7PJKidRPsvmA