On 04/02/2013 11:10 AM, George M. Middius wrote:
> sf wrote:
>
>>> refrigerator?
>>
>> AKA: ice box?
>
> Exactly how old are you, anyway?
>


I was born in 1950 and I have to admit that, while most people had
electric refrigerators, there were still some people around who had ice
boxes. When I was very young there was an ice delivery service and, like
the bread man and the milk man, it was horse drawn.

When going camping or on picnics and we needed ice we used to go to the
the ice store (for lack of a better name) and they had huge blocks of
ice packed in sawdust. The used to cut it from lakes and rivers in the
winter.

Maybe it is a cultural thing but we always referred to the fridge as a
fridge, or refrigerator. My father in law was born and raised in the US
and was older than my grandparents. He was the only person I knew who
always referred to it as an ice box.