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• Fuel Dock • Wells up to 45’

• Party Store • Quick in & out rack

• Maintenance Full Service Marina storage to 26’
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• Marine Supplies • 3 Boat hoists

• Restaurant & Everything • Marine Forklifts
carry out within • Major / Minor

walking distance you’ll need Repairs
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cific propor-
The Annual Ice Harvest The ice was brought in during tions, and
Ice blocks to households were the winters from nearby moun- which was
supplied by the “ice man”. tains in bulk amounts, and known to be
He delivered ice about twice stored in specially designed, resistant to
a week. Each block was 16- naturally cooled refrigerators, heat transfer.

18 inches thick and This mixture

weighed 75-100 was thought to be completely

pounds, This insulated water impenetrable.

cabinet held a block The space often had

of ice in a metal-lined access to a the lo-
cal water supply,
compartment. As the and often con- BBelWluoeawwlWl:ietEayhrteei8cWr.9RA8inan#nygseleorrns
tained a system
ice melted, the wa- of windcatchers

ter drained into a pan Ice harvesting photo from 1905 courtesy of the
below. Consumers Detroit Publishing Company
bought thousands of
which could easily
iceboxes from local
bring temperatures
merchants and from
mail-order catalog firms such called yakhchal (meaning ice inside the space

as Sears Roebuck and Com- storage). This was a huge un- down to frigid

pany. derground space that had thick levels on summer

six foot walls at the base made days. The ice was

In 400 BC Iran, Persian engi- out of a special mortar called then used to chill

neers had already mastered the sārooj, composed of sand, clay, treats for royalty

technique of storing ice in the egg whites, lime, goat hair, and on such occasions.

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