Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 08:26:15 -0400

From: Wayne Glowka wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAIL.GAC.PEACHNET.EDU

Subject: Re: icebox and upstate



At least in Texas, when electrical power plants were built they also

had banks of tubs in which ice was made in part of the building. Not

many of them are still operating. The Southern Ice Company in Texarkana

(Texas side) operates out of the old power plant building, but does not

use the old tubs, nor is electricity generated there. I suspect that

such practices were common throughout the country, and that cutting

blocks of ice out of ponds and rivers was pretty well gone by the

1920s. DMLance



When I was a child, a nice, older, childless couple sort of adopted us as

surrogate grandparents. My surrogate grandfather grew up in New York City

and told me about skating on the Hudson and about watching ice being cut

from the river. This man died on his sixtieth birthday around maybe 1966,

1967, or 1968. Don's date accommodates this man's experience.







Wayne Glowka

Professor of English

Director of Research and Graduate Student Services

Georgia College

Milledgeville, GA 31061

912-453-4222

wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]mail.gac.peachnet.edu