Living Family Archive

River Drive house

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Hot Water and Ice Deliveries at the River Drive HouseIris remembers a large green iron stove with a hot-water tank, which supplied the house's only hot water as far as she knew, and a bathroom shared with the couple upstairs. Her mother heated heavy irons on the stove; Iris is uncertain whether there were multiple irons or interchangeable bottoms with a single detachable handle. The household also had a wooden icebox, replenished by an iceman carrying a block of ice on his shoulder with ice tongs.

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