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Urag-gro_Shub t1_isociue wrote

Reply to comment by stumcm in TIL that before the invention of regfrigeration in 1851, ice had to be imported to Australia from Boston, Massachusetts. The ice blocks travelled through the tropics inside ships insulated with timber, straw, peat, and sawdust by stumcm

Fredrick Tudor is an ancestor of my landlord, I live in one of his ice houses they used to store the ice over the summer. The walls of my house are like 18" thick. Things must have been pretty different back then though cause now the ice pond water is brown and gross

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Intensityintensifies t1_ispizaj wrote

Or people just weren’t little bitches.

Im just kidding. I grew up in the Midwest and drink frozen pond water sounds like a bad time. Maybe they imported the ice and stored it in the ice house?

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Urag-gro_Shub t1_ispwox1 wrote

I have these pictures from about 1910ish, in the bottom picture you can see my neighbor's house. Guess standards were just different?

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TheSpoonKing t1_isqhzmv wrote

of course the water is gonna look black in an early monochrome photograph being exposed by a blanket of snow under the sun...

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gnitiwrdrawkcab t1_isrezx0 wrote

It could be the area is more developed than it was back then, is your town still roughly the same size?

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