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Have you or your parents ever bought a block of ice from the back of a cart that was drawn by a mule, to put in an Ice Box?
 
 
Yes,  my family bought ice that way and my grandfather owned an ice house when I was a child and sold ice to the local famers in Johnston county.  Julia Svoboda
 
Not only my parents, but I have too.  Bob McLaughlin
 
My grandparents did when I was about five years old.  Pat Cromwell
 
Nope.  My grandparents probably did though.  Pam Honeycutt
 
Lemerle Abbott called me just prior to their leaving for Grand Assembly and said to tell you that Harold remembers about the ice because he lived it it Columbia, SC.   
 
I do remember in Hawaii the ice man coming with the block of ice, but he was driving an "ice truck".  He had those ice tongs to carry the ice.  We had an ice box (literally) because the block of ice fit in the box of the unit. 
Sandra Mihalcik
 
Never had a mule drawn cart deliver ice.  We had to row over to where they made the ice. at the Solomons Island, MD,  Those were the good old days or so I have been told.  Liz Stewart

My dad, now 79, sure did!  Gail Franks

We had an ice box until I was about eight years old (1937) and blocks of ice were delivered certain days of the week by the ice truck to homes in Swansboro.  We had a cow that was kept on Walnut street in Swansboro and my folks got an electric refrigerator to keep the milk that my family did not deliver to customers in town. My Mother milked the cow twice aday and I can remember delivering milk mornings before I went to school. 
We did have vegetables sold from a horse drawn cart in Swansboro before the streets were paved.
Margaret Slate

Yes!  Many times
I used to follow the ice wagon in summer just to get  little shiver of ice that fell off the wagon.  Old Mr Smith used his ice pick to break of the protion people wanted.  David Lewis

 


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