On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:58:24 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>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.
>

Yup-- I'm a year younger, and when I was a kid the old guy next door
had an ice box. I remember when he got a 'Frigidaire' [which might
have been a GE or Whirlpool] because he and I smashed that gorgeous
old oak ice box into kindling wood for his stove.

>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.

When we were growing up in upstate NY I think the 2 terms were about
equally common.

Jim