Jefferson Ice Company had those vending machines all around the Chicago
suburbs (and presumeably in Chicago itself).
I remember one located at 31st and Maple on the LaGrange Park side....IIRC
it was in the vacant prairie even before the Dairy Queen was built, along
with a similar vending machine for Willow Farm milk.
Charlie Vlk
----- Original Message -----
From: "Grice Dale-MGI1833" <dgrice@motorola.com>
To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 3:30 PM
Subject: RE: [BRHSlist] Clyde ice house questions
> As a kid I remember going to the ice house next to the Clyde engine
terminal
> in the mid to late 60's. Dad would drop some silver in a slot and out a
> chute would come a block of ice with a loud clunk. Oh to have been taking
> more pictures back then.
>
> But I can't recall the name of the company.
>
> Dale Grice
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bryan Howell [mailto:tubaman21@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 1:51 PM
> To: BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Clyde ice house questions
>
>
> IIRC, my grandfather worked at an Ice House on the Q
> somewhere around Berwyn. It might have been the one
> in question at Clyde Yard. I will see him either this
> weekend or next week. I will ask him and see what he
> remembers. He never told me he worked on the railroad
> until last month. He backed himself into a corner
> with that one! So, I'll see what he has to say and
> I'll post it here.
>
> Bryan Howell
> tubaman21@yahoo.com
>
>
> --- Charlie Vlk <cvlk@comcast.net> wrote:
> > I would have to dig out my slides from the crawl
> > space and find my slide
> > viewer (the Kodak projector is on the fritz)...
> > No, I am not thinking of the MR drawings, just the
> > dim recollections of
> > kicking around Clyde in the mid 60's with Joe Legner
> > and,
> > on one occasion, with my wife-to-be (measuring
> > SM16s).
> > Jefferson was a Chicago chain selling block ice,
> > bagged cubes, both
> > wholesale and retail.
> > Charlie Vlk
> >
> >
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