never had refrigeration until a century ago and beers been around for thousands of years!

 

Yeah thats right Steve, you are old enough to remember when they didnt have fridges in the house right HAHAHA

I lived in Europe for around a year and was taught to drink room temp beer.

 

the Iceman cometh!

 

Is that how you made your lemonade back then.....head to a mountain and chizzel off a piece of ice? HAHA

 

we had the icehouses on the lake that kept ice year round, and delivered it by horse and wagon to the cities....

 

Nice.......you should be a story book writer!

 

1880s -- Hundreds of local residents are employed in the Lake Hopatcong Ice Industry, cutting Ice on the lake and shipping it by rail to Newark, Paterson and New York City areas before the days of electric refrigeration. Five commercial Ice Houses are around the Lake, with the 'Mountain Ice Company' having a very large Ice House in the Silver Spring section of Landing, off Yellow Barn Ave., near the site of today's Nixon Public School.
A detailed 1887 map of Landing shows Dynamite and Gunpowder works on the grounds of the American Forcite Powder Mfg. Co., later renamed the Atlas Powder Co., located on the southeast shore of Lake Hopatcong. Eventually Atlas would have almost 130 buildings, barns & sheds on their 400 acres that spanned the area along the Lake & up the hill from Shippensport Road to what is today Rogers Drive. A Railway spur from the Lackawanna served both the Ice House and the Explosives Company. The King brothers, Theodore F. King and William E. King, ran 2 stores on the corner of Lakeside Blvd. and Landing Road. During this time the bridge over the canal and railroad in Landing was made of Iron with wooden planks as a roadway. In the early 1880's the Lackawanna Railroad built a Passenger Station at Drakesville (modern day Ledgewood). Horse drawn carriages would then take people up the bumpy road to the lake. By 1886 the Landing/Lake Hopatcong Railway Station on the Lackawanna Line was built. Steamboats would wait on the Morris Canal in Landing for the passengers to disembark from the train.

 

Nice......ok who has the popcorn and lemonade? LOL

 

I have the lemonade!

 

Interesting little history lesson.

Have a great day everybody.
Been diggin' in the garden everyday this week. More today. I will have close to 30 tomatoe plants when it is all done. Gotta get the canning supplies ready.

 

We got some thunderstorms this afternoon, but not really enough rain for the garden/yard. There were reports of some good sized hail a little north of here. Hope everyone is beating the heat!

 

Good evening Tennessee! Cold front moved through central Illinois last evening. yesterdays high was 95°, today's high was 75°. Made for a very nice day. Everyone have a super Friday.

 

Good early Friday everybody..

 

Good Morning All!

Happy TGIF!

 

Good morning and have a great Friday TN.