The Ice House was an important facility in the 1920s. Consumers picked up their blocks of ice every few days, or had them delivered to their homes, (The iceman, like the milkman, was in the neighborhoods making regular deliveries each week.)
Wooden boxes lined with tin or zinc and insulated with various materials were cooled with blocks of ice. A drip pan collected the melted water and had to be emptied daily.
Homes had an “icebox” until the 1930s when the home refrigerator was introduced. The neighborhood Ice House went out of existence in the 1940s.
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Carol Libby & Karen Hou Arcadia Historical Society