sappatoti
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ORIGINAL: Dnomyar Was just talking about this yesterday. We did not have garbage pickup. You burned it. Had a ice man deliver a block of ice for the refridgerator. Had a coal bin. When I was a boy in first grade I remember the milk man delivering milk in glass bottles and putting them in the steel box on the porch. My grandmother still used an ice box and had block ice delivered every day. Her house was still heated with a coal-fired boiler and coal was regularly delivered; what a noise that made, clanging through the chute and into the bin! I didn't have to walk 9 miles to school though. It was only about five blocks away. The Blizzard of '67 in Chicago did make the walk extremely difficult for such a small boy.
< Message edited by sappatoti -- 10/29/2008 10:40:05 AM >
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