I don’t think most people under the age of 80 know, but I grew up around old bastards and am into antiques so it just kinda stuck out to me.
Have a rather fancy ice box from the 1890s that would’ve used metal shelves you put ice between which would then cool and keep an insulated cubbard chilled refrigerating the food within, between that and the fact it had a hose to drain the cold water which gather in a lower sub area as the ice melted it’d be about as good as a modern ice chest though you’d have to fill it with new ice every morning. Though it’s currently being used for clothes storage.
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I don’t think most people under the age of 80 know, but I grew up around old bastards and am into antiques so it just kinda stuck out to me.
Have a rather fancy ice box from the 1890s that would’ve used metal shelves you put ice between which would then cool and keep an insulated cubbard chilled refrigerating the food within, between that and the fact it had a hose to drain the cold water which gather in a lower sub area as the ice melted it’d be about as good as a modern ice chest though you’d have to fill it with new ice every morning. Though it’s currently being used for clothes storage.