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From: Ed P <esp@snet.n>
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Subject: Re: Ice industry ruined.
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 22:33:30 -0400
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On 3/31/2025 10:22 PM, ItsJoanNotJoAnn wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Apr 2025 2:13:17 +0000, Ed P wrote:
> 
>> Ice houses were great and provided employment for people.  Someone came
>> along and destroyed the thriving industry.
>>
>> It might be one of the world's most transformative inventions when it
>> comes to our diets, but the refrigerator was initially met with a frosty
>> reception. Although ice houses such as the one pictured were relatively
>> popular with the upper classes, everyday people relied on techniques
>> such as pickling to preserve their food.
>>
>> When electric refrigerators were first brought to market in the early
>> 1900s, they were dismissed as noisy, expensive, and difficult to
>> maintain.
>>
>> To make matters worse, ice was America's second-biggest export after
>> cotton at the time, and critics widely slammed the refrigerator as they
>> believed it would harm the domestic ice industry.
>>
>> However, following a series of developments from the likes of General
>> Electric, refrigerators became much more practical for home use.
>> Consumers began to "warm up" to the world of electric refrigeration and
>> never looked back.
>>
>>
> Thank goodness for refrigerators.  Let's add automatic
> washing machines to that list, too.
> 
> -- 

I have no idea what it will be like in 50 years, but I do know what is 
was like 50+ years ago.  We really are living at a good point of history.

Would be fun to hop in the time machine and go back 100, 200, 500 years. 
  But I just want to visit for a day, not move in.