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Floyd R. Turbo

(33,205 posts) Tue Mar 10, 2026, 04:11 PM Mar 10

Remember then?🧊🚚

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Remember then?🧊🚚 (Original Post) Floyd R. Turbo Mar 10 OP

yah.... markie Mar 10 #1

Welcome to the club! 🧊 Floyd R. Turbo Mar 10 #2

I used to live off the grid markie Mar 10 #3

My grandfather had that job dweller Mar 10 #4

Cool history! Floyd R. Turbo Mar 10 #9

When Tom Waits had a day job? johnp3907 Mar 10 #5

😁 Floyd R. Turbo Mar 10 #10

I don't remember block ice... GiqueCee Mar 10 #6

Very cool! Floyd R. Turbo Mar 10 #11

This guy looks like a hipster. cachukis Mar 10 #7

Ice hipster! 😁 Floyd R. Turbo Mar 10 #12

Sure do. I never saw our ice man this unkempt though. LoisB Mar 10 #8

The end of a hard day! Floyd R. Turbo Mar 10 #13

markie

(24,041 posts)

1. yah....

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Original post)

Tue Mar 10, 2026, 04:14 PM

Mar 10

I'm that old

Floyd R. Turbo

(33,205 posts)

2. Welcome to the club! 🧊

Reply to markie (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 10, 2026, 04:14 PM

Mar 10

markie

(24,041 posts)

3. I used to live off the grid

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Reply #2)

Tue Mar 10, 2026, 04:28 PM

Mar 10

and used an "icebox"

and I know they used to bury the ice in sawdust to keep it cold.... I'm that old

I'm so old, I went to a one-room schoolhouse

dweller

(28,631 posts)

4. My grandfather had that job

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Original post)

Tue Mar 10, 2026, 04:33 PM

Mar 10

and later started an ice delivery service . Later expanded it to fuels , and then a transportation company .
I never knew him as he died before my mom ( his daughter) and dad were even married. He and my grandmother had 10 kids and most worked in his company , or one he started .
I understand he had massive shoulders from carrying ice blocks in his teenage years .

✌🏻

Floyd R. Turbo

(33,205 posts)

9. Cool history!

Reply to dweller (Reply #4)

Tue Mar 10, 2026, 09:06 PM

Mar 10

johnp3907

(4,334 posts)

5. When Tom Waits had a day job?

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Original post)

Tue Mar 10, 2026, 05:18 PM

Mar 10

Floyd R. Turbo

(33,205 posts)

10. 😁

Reply to johnp3907 (Reply #5)

Tue Mar 10, 2026, 09:06 PM

Mar 10

GiqueCee

(4,632 posts)

6. I don't remember block ice...

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Original post)

Tue Mar 10, 2026, 05:19 PM

Mar 10

... but I do remember my grandparents' milk being delivered by a horse-drawn wagon. The delivery man used an old curling stone to tether the horse while he made deliveries. This was in early fifties Toronto.

Floyd R. Turbo

(33,205 posts)

11. Very cool!

Reply to GiqueCee (Reply #6)

Tue Mar 10, 2026, 09:07 PM

Mar 10

cachukis

(4,056 posts)

7. This guy looks like a hipster.

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Original post)

Tue Mar 10, 2026, 05:23 PM

Mar 10

Watched the guy on my street unload his truck.
He had a leather shawl over his shoulder where he slung his block. Lugged it up stairs in the triple deckers. Had a dozen stops in the 50's within eyesight.