Showing posts with label Ice Harvesting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ice Harvesting. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 4, 2019
Ice Cutting in 1919
From the January 23, 2019, MidWeek "Looking Back."
1919, 100 Years Ago.
"While most people are feeling grateful for the mild weather of the last few days, Frank Carter is bewailing the fact that the mercury did not remain closer to the bottom of the tube, until he gets his ice harvested.
"However, on Carter lake on the south Malta road, the ice is better than ten inches thick and today, Mr. Carter is getting his tools hauled to the spot ready for cutting which will start tomorrow."
--CootIce
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
Icemaking Back in 1917
From the February 8, 2017, MidWeek (DeKalb County, Illinois) "Looking Back."
1917, 100 Years Ago.
"Will Myers and Pete Larson of Cortland are filling the ice house from the Myers pond.
"The ice is about a foot thick."
--CootIce
Tuesday, January 9, 2018
The Ice Man Goeth in Jan. 1917
From the January 4, 2017, MidWeek (DeKalb County, Illinois) "Looking Back.:
1917, 100 Years Ago.
"The warm weather of the past twenty-four hours has held up the ice making proposition and although some of the ice dealers of the city had started marking, the work was halted until colder weather comes again.
"The dairy company had started to mark the Normal (NIU's Lagoon) pond and the youngsters were sorry to lose their skating but now are glad that the warm weather halted the work of the ice man."
--CootIce
Friday, December 9, 2016
Looking Back to 1916: Cutting Ice at NIU's Lagoon
From the February 10, 2016, MidWeek (DeKalb County, Illinois) "Looking Back."
1916, 100 Years Ago.
"Ice men are busy cutting ice on the Normal pond (probably Northern Illinois University's Lagoon) and the skating will be interfered with until this is over. There has been a good skating surface for several days but the fact was not known by many there was little use made of the pond.
"If the weather turns cold again and freezes over where the ice has been taken out it will make for good skating."
Ice Harvesting was quite a big winter time industry in northern Illinois at the time.
What, No Smart Phones? --Cooter
1916, 100 Years Ago.
"Ice men are busy cutting ice on the Normal pond (probably Northern Illinois University's Lagoon) and the skating will be interfered with until this is over. There has been a good skating surface for several days but the fact was not known by many there was little use made of the pond.
"If the weather turns cold again and freezes over where the ice has been taken out it will make for good skating."
Ice Harvesting was quite a big winter time industry in northern Illinois at the time.
What, No Smart Phones? --Cooter
Friday, February 10, 2012
Around Here: What'd Folks Do Before Refrigerators?
From the Special Edition Spring 2010 Fox Lake Grant Township Area Historical Society.
They used ice in ice boxes, where that term used for refrigerators comes from. Then, how did they get ice during the summer months. Answer, they cut it out of lakes during the winter and stored it in special structures built to hold the cold in.
One of the earliest industries in Lake County and around the Chain of Lakes here in northeast Illinois was ice harvesting.
Every winter, when the lakes froze to a depth of 18 to 24 inches, ice cutting crews would move out onto the lakes and begin cutting ice into standard-sized blocks which were then stored in sawdust insulated ice houses to be used during the summer.
Much of the ice was used for area hotels, resorts and restaurants. But, a lot was shipped by rail to Chicago.
The channel where we keep out boat in Fox Lake originally was built to haul the ice to a storage shed. The Alpine Inn in Round Lake was the bunk house for ice harvesters.
A Freezing Affair. --Cooter
They used ice in ice boxes, where that term used for refrigerators comes from. Then, how did they get ice during the summer months. Answer, they cut it out of lakes during the winter and stored it in special structures built to hold the cold in.
One of the earliest industries in Lake County and around the Chain of Lakes here in northeast Illinois was ice harvesting.
Every winter, when the lakes froze to a depth of 18 to 24 inches, ice cutting crews would move out onto the lakes and begin cutting ice into standard-sized blocks which were then stored in sawdust insulated ice houses to be used during the summer.
Much of the ice was used for area hotels, resorts and restaurants. But, a lot was shipped by rail to Chicago.
The channel where we keep out boat in Fox Lake originally was built to haul the ice to a storage shed. The Alpine Inn in Round Lake was the bunk house for ice harvesters.
A Freezing Affair. --Cooter
Monday, January 24, 2011
Fox Lake Historical Society: Grayslake and Ice Harvesting
The meeting of January 15th.
A representative of the Grayslake, Illinois, Historical Society was in attendance and gave a short talk about what they are doing.
They have just moved into a new $2 million building and run by the village which requires them to be open at least 16 hours a week. They even have an executive director who is paid $65,000 a year.
The new place is located one block off Main Street next to the old water tower. Hours are Wednesday to Saturday from noon to 4 and they have a community room.
ICE HARVESTING
The theme of today's meeting had to do with outside activities, especially winter, in the Fox Lake, Illinois, area in years past. We heard a presentation on ice harvesting, which was a big industry in the area in the days before refrigeration. You had to keep things cold somehow during the summer.
And, this was done by harvesting ice during the winter from Fox Lake and other bodies of water in the Chain of Lakes and Lake County area.
An Icing We Will Go. --DaCoot
A representative of the Grayslake, Illinois, Historical Society was in attendance and gave a short talk about what they are doing.
They have just moved into a new $2 million building and run by the village which requires them to be open at least 16 hours a week. They even have an executive director who is paid $65,000 a year.
The new place is located one block off Main Street next to the old water tower. Hours are Wednesday to Saturday from noon to 4 and they have a community room.
ICE HARVESTING
The theme of today's meeting had to do with outside activities, especially winter, in the Fox Lake, Illinois, area in years past. We heard a presentation on ice harvesting, which was a big industry in the area in the days before refrigeration. You had to keep things cold somehow during the summer.
And, this was done by harvesting ice during the winter from Fox Lake and other bodies of water in the Chain of Lakes and Lake County area.
An Icing We Will Go. --DaCoot
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