Ice Harvesting in the Old Days

It’s been kind of a mild winter so far – which is fine with me.

But in the old days, that would have been a disaster for those who made their living as icemen, cutting ice from the lake.

Read all about it in this great article (below) that ran on the front page of the Lorain Journal on Deb. 11, 1950 – 70 years ago this week.

The article looks back at those old days, and the evolution of the ice business since then. It includes comments from old-timer Charles Grescher, who started in the ice business with Lorain’s Crystal Ice Company back in 1908.

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Click here to read my 2015 five-part series on the Crystal Ice Company, which was mentioned in the article.