A few CVRR pictures and some other related pictures....

[Rufus T. Firefly]

It's an interesting detail here - the porch roof looks rather new while the main house roof looks like it's in failure mode,

Priorities would tend to dictate replacement of the latter vs. the former, but the reasons and rest of the story here is something unknown...

Some nice porch furniture, too! All around neat captured moment of time.

[rogruth]

Yes, I agree.

[Wolf]

The roofer only did the porch roof because he only brought the short ladder....or was afraid of heights?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

The roofer only did the porch roof because he only brought the short ladder....or was afraid of heights?

That might apply to today's roofers...........

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Creamery Garage in Dewart, PA

[rogruth]

TWO interesting buildings and trucks.
The truck nearest the building has the left front wheel up on a block and the other one seems to be leaning to one side.?
Is the large building the creamery?

[MurphOnMillerAve]

A creamery. How did they ever keep the cream from becoming a fetid wad of nasty without electric refrigeration, I really wonder. Perhaps, they used ice (stored in the basement?) but where would they get a supply of that ice from (I realize that in some locations, ice was sawed off frozen lakes and ponds and transported to wherever during warmer months) ? And how 'bout for creameries in states with no icy winters? Fabulous building+annex (foreground), however.

P.S. I'm so ancient I remember that, as a boy, I'd grab the delivered-milk in its glass bottles from a case on the front porch and hurry it inside to the "Frigidaire". A thick layer of cream had usually settled at the top of the neck of the bottle, just under the cardboard insert cap. I wasn't fond (thought it was gross) of that cream layer, but I think it was used for coffee (?) by my parents.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

...... where would they get a supply of that ice from during warmer months?

Ice was stored in ice houses after being harvested in the winter and then transported for local delivery from those ice houses. Long ago I probably posted some RPPC's of the large ice pond and ice house that the CVRR operated up near Richmond Furnace.

Now don't you remember the blocks of ice being delivered to the house and placed into that nice oak ice box with the drip pan under it back in Auntie Em's kitchen?

[MurphOnMillerAve]

...... where would they get a supply of that ice from during warmer months?

Ice was stored in ice houses after being harvested in the winter and then transported for local delivery from those ice houses. Long ago I probably posted some RPPC's of the large ice pond and ice house that the CVRR operated up near Richmond Furnace.

Now don't you remember the blocks of ice being delivered to the house and placed into that nice oak ice box with the drip pan under it back in Auntie Em's kitchen?

I do recall a vague image of that being done at my grandparents' old farmhouse, when I was just a toddler; the pan I do not recall, but the oak box, with its heavy hinges, yes. I saw the same contraption, however, in nearly-universal rural use, back in 1967, when I was teaching art history in Austria. We stayed at farmhouses, the ones where the size of your manure pile in front of the house was an indicator of your wealth/status in the community, we were told. Those folks had such coolers as you mentioned, Roger.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

...... where would they get a supply of that ice from during warmer months?

Ice was stored in ice houses after being harvested in the winter and then transported for local delivery from those ice houses. Long ago I probably posted some RPPC's of the large ice pond and ice house that the CVRR operated up near Richmond Furnace.

Now don't you remember the blocks of ice being delivered to the house and placed into that nice oak ice box with the drip pan under it back in Auntie Em's kitchen?

I do recall a vague image of that being done at my grandparents' old farmhouse, when I was just a toddler; the pan I do not recall, but the oak box, with its heavy hinges, yes. I saw the same contraption, however, in nearly-universal rural use, back in 1967, when I was teaching art history in Austria. We stayed at farmhouses, the ones where the size of your manure pile in front of the house was an indicator of your wealth/status in the community, we were told. Those folks had such coolers as you mentioned, Roger.

I actually have just such an ice box (missing the drip pan...), but rest fully intact, in the family room.

[rogruth]

We had one in everyday use until @ 1945 that was on the back porch. After we got a "Frigidaire" we still used the "ice box" for several years until
ice delivery stopped. Our ice box also had a metal (?) lined compartment with one side in contact with the ice compartment that held water so
that as long as it was kept full and there was ice in it there was ICE WATER. I think that was the main purpose after we got the refrigerator.
It was also a nice looking piece of furniture.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Our ice box also had a metal (?) lined compartment with one side in contact with the ice compartment that held water so that as long as it was kept full and there was ice in it there was ICE WATER.

Some did have a side compartment adjacent to where the block ice rested; usually galvanized steel or some sort was the norm unless in some cases where it was copper.

It was also a nice looking piece of furniture.

Indeed. Ours is very nice.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Wanna share a picture ?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Wanna share a picture ?

Maybe........if I can get one later today.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Wanna share a picture ?

Maybe........if I can get one later today.

...and how 'bout including yourself in the frame?