shorthistorian:corporatebigwig:aiiaiiiyo:Ice delivery man in Houston, TX circa 1920 Check this blog!
shorthistorian:corporatebigwig:aiiaiiiyo:Ice delivery man in Houston, TX circa 1920 Check this blog! why did he eat this #the hip pop… the cigarettes in the hat…#how many kids from pre-electric refrigeration look suspiciously like this guy I wonder…#POV: You are a bored housewife whose husband is constantly away on business trips and barely looks at you when he gets home#and this guy is rolling up to your house on like a weekly basis with a block of ice and his WWI thousand yard stareHistorian finishing a dissertation on the ice industry here. For once, I am not here to take away your joy! “Oh no, the ice man is too sexy and he’s going to fuck my wife while I’m not home” was a legit moral panic for DECADES. So much so that if you were fancy, you could get an icebox built into your wall so the dirty, sexy ice man didn’t have to come inside your house with your delicate, impressionable wife. This pic is going in the diss if I can chase down the correct citation for it. -- source link
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