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>> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/24/di...anted=all&_r=0
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> So, what did people do before fridges?

> My grandfather was a farmer in the early-to-mid part of the last century.
> He had a large ice house, and people would drive by (first in horse and
> buggy, later in automobile) to buy ice for their ice boxes. My
> grandparents, land went to the edge of a large lake, and my grandfather
> would cut large squares of ice from the lake in the winter. These would
> be stored in the ice house. That was before my time, but I think extra
> insulation was provided by covering the ice with sawdust in the ice house.
> They also had an underground root cellar, and that was cool enough to
> store many varieties of food for extended periods of time. They had an
> electric refrigerator by the time I was born, but they still used the root
> cellar for many items. They lived in northeast Ohio.

Exactly! Thanks, Mary!

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