Our Daily Sykes #61 – A Professional Visit: 4-5-44
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As an adjuster for a Seattle insurance firm Horace Sykes specialty was fires. He wrote about them, lectured around the state about them, and sometimes "chased" them for his profession. Sykes names these ruins the "Columbia Cold Storage Company" and he dates it "April 5, 1944." Again, he does not tell us where it is. Wherever, the effects of a structure filled with ice and still destroyed by fire are odd. The Ice Box was soon a thing of the past then. I remember the regular delivery of ice for our ice box and I also remember the delivery of our first electric refrigerator, which we continued to call the "ice box" for years after. Both deliveries were in 1944 - or near it. (Click to Enlarge)
