An Old Cold Spot
My brother Mike emailed me this photo last night. He said this was a goodbye salute that he snapped today in his garage where this old freezer has been chugging away since 1988. That was the year our mama decided she was tired of bending over and digging through it. Besides, she no longer needed the capacity and hadn't for several years. Mike and my sister-in-law spent the next 25 years "digging" through this old freezer. My sis-in-law was very good at keeping it and the cupboards stocked. The two of them kept promising each other that "It is going to die soon, so we will just keep it until that day." Twenty-five years may seem like a very long life for a freezer. It is MUCH older than that. Sears only sold Coldspot through 1976. I thought that my parent's purchased this freezer in the sixties. My brother said he put the serial number 'on-line' and it matched a 1953 manufacturing date. Here is a close up of the make and model that
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Happy Birthday Karmyn!!
Happy Birthday, Karmyn! (You're a good mom, Pamela, to visit your daughter for her birthday.)
Good pic, mom!
Hugs and blessings,
Thanks for stopping by my blog, too.
Have a Merry Christmas.
Your town made the front page of our "Daily Sentinel" today...top place to live in the U.S.
Grand Junction was #12 out of 20.
Happy b'day Karymn!
thru the lips and straight to the hips.. yep I get it! oh boy do i ever!