Loading ...But I remember milk , bread and ice being delivered by horse drawn wagons . The delivery man could hop off with a ‘hod’ of milk or bread , and make several deliveries on both sides of the street , then whistle , and the horse would bring the wagon to him . Occasionally there would be a horse with a mind of its own that would start getting ahead of the driver . In that case the driver would drop a large weight – about a foot in diameter and about 6 inches thick onto the pavement , attached to the wagon with a long leather strap . That was an anchor for the horse .
When I was about 4 or 5 , the electrical grid in town was converted from 25 Hz to the current standard 60 Hz , so there was about a two year period when your family fridge became an ice box until the utility company could change out the compressor motors for everyone . The ice man would make deliveries from another horse drawn wagon every other day , leaving a block of ice about the size of a 1 foot by 1 foot by 1 foot cube .
The bread wagon and the milk wagon were enclosed , with windows front and sides , with a sliding door on both sides , closed in winter , open in summer . The ice wagon was just a farm wagon with low sides , and the ice covered with a tarp to retard melting in summer , and I suppose , deter theft by delinquents in some neighborhoods .
Mr. Copper and Goldie – I am probably older than the two of you
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