Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Missed it by THAT much!

The wonderful blog PaleoFuture finds a 1930 newspaper prediction about tomorrow's kitchen, which assumed that the kitchen of the future would still have an ice-box for food preservation. (For young sprouts, before electrical refrigeration came along, kitchens had ice-boxes serviced by yeomen who would deliver blocks of ice from wagons daily. Then horseless carriages came in, and....)

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