On 11/19/2014 3:38 PM, Moe DeLoughan wrote:
> On 11/13/2014 8:30 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
>> On Thu, 13 Nov 2014 19:21:24 -0500, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 13 Nov 2014 15:17:31 -0500, Gary > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Not at all, Sheldon. My first apartment (without roommates) had one of
>>>> those old fridges. One door to open the fridge and inside on top was a
>>>> little compartment for ice. As Julie said, it was small and didn't
>>>> hold much at all. I lived with that until I moved in 1978.
>>>
>>> I don't believe you, unless you rented an $8 a week apt in some
>>> impoverished ghetto. During the '40s we lived with an ice-a-box. In
>>> the early '50s we had a fridge with a top freezer. In the '60s my mom
>>> got a fridge with a bottom freezer that I hated.
>>
>> The freezer NOT in the fridge but in a separate compartment wasn't the
>> majority style being manufactured until the mid 60's. My first
>> apartment in 1984 had the same style that Gary mentions. It was
>> replaced with a two-door model within a year, but they were still in
>> use in the mid-80's, at least.
>>
>
> The company I worked for in the 1970s had that style of fridge in their
> lunch/break room. Yeah, it was old, but it still ran, so they kept it in
> use. They built stuff like tanks in those days.
>
An apartment I rented in midtown Memphis in 1983 or so had that old
style fridge. The galley style kitchen was tiny; it had metal cabinets
which also dated back to the 40's or 50's. The fridge worked just fine.
The grocery store was a half a block walk up the street. I had no
need for a larger freezer or a more modern fridge. In fact, I don't
think I ever thought much about it until now.

Jill