Have you driven a Ford lately?

So I wish I had a better camera on my cell phone... (oh, hell... I wish I had a better cell phone)... for exactly this type of situation.

I was walking through a property with a pair of buyers (yes, remember those? ... "buy-ers"... say it with me... "buy-ers")... and we came across this prehistoric ice-chest.

I hesitate to call it a refrigerator, (even though that's how it's marked) it was the size of a modern KitchenAid or GEProfile... and my photo doesn't do it justice... the image on the upper right is the label that you see at the top center.

It appears to be the FORD model, manufactured by the Alaska Refrigerator company out of Musekgon Michigan. at the lower right is a copy of an ad from 1910.

According to the internet (and we know the internet is never wrong)... the Alaska Refrigerator Company was in business from 1891 until 1928 when electric refrigerators basically put the icebox company out of business, and they sold to the Coldak company (which eventually morphed into Norge.).

I don't know if this relic is "worth" any money, but it was certainly a topic of conversation for a while with my clients and I. In fact we stood in front of it, and talked about it for way longer than we should have, while we should have been talking about and viewing the run-down, needs-a-ton-of-work house that surrounded the icebox.

I love this business.

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Thass just cold, man!