I really enjoyed reading your articles about the Dunleath property on Chestnut Street and the Colonial Ice Co. on East Market Street.
My brothers and I delivered the afternoon paper on Chestnut Street during the late 1940s and early '50s. We remember that a family named Trotter lived there. This was a magnificent property at that time.
I worked at the Colonial Ice Co. during the summer after my sophomore year in college. I grew up on Fifth Avenue. When I went to work, I walked down Summit Avenue and along the Southern Railroad tracks until I got to the ice plant.
The company was known as Colonial Ice and Coal at that time. We heated our house with coal until 1957. The greater part of their business was cold storage and nonperishable food products.
Harry N. Young
Greensboro
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Thanks for the memories!
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October 3, 2006 6:17 AM
All I can remember is the thick paper bags they would put the crushed ice in. Wish I had some of those today.
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October 3, 2006 10:00 AM
I'd forgotten completely about those huge brown paper bags. I remember my dad buying a few and filling up metal ice coolers with latches that would pinch the heck out of you if you got your hand in there the wrong way.
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October 3, 2006 10:51 AM
I loved watching the guy throw the big blocks of ice up and into the hopper and then watch the ice fill up the brown paper bags. As a kid, that was as good as anything going.
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October 3, 2006 11:18 AM
Being a little older than you guys all I can really remember are those long walks home down the railroad tracks carrying those damnably heavy bags of ice you're all so sentimental about.
:-)
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October 3, 2006 1:14 PM
janherman,
Always have to one up us! Hope you didn't have to carry them too far, as that brown paper couldn't hold forever!
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October 3, 2006 2:25 PM
Folks, thanks for the nostalgia. While the events mentioned pre-date, I so much enjoy hearing of those by-gone childhood days of my elders! What a joy to hear each of you share your remembrances.
One of my earliest memories of Greensboro was of Bob Dunn Ford when the dealership was located where the Post Office now sits at Murrow Blvd. & E. Market. And then there is the McDonalds on Randleman Road and WPET Radio Station which sat some 1,000 yards or so from there! During the summers while on summer break, every other Friday my siblings and I could count on getting a hamburger, fries, & drink from Mickey D's at that location. Thanks for allowing me to share these memories and for helping them to be rekindled in my mind.
Shalom
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October 3, 2006 4:43 PM