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how do you say people of the 20s had freezeboxes.
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People of the twenties used iceboxes, as jubilado said. Delivery men brought blocks of ice door to door to refill the ice compartment. I grew up hearing my older relatives talk about the days of iceboxes and the iceman, who drove a horse-drawn ice wagon. I've never heard of a freezebox. People in the twenties didn't have electric freezers or refrigerators. Many places still didn't have electricity at all.
I imagine that the word in Spanish was "nevera," the same as the word for "refrigerator," but I don't know for sure.
@ jtaniel and jubilado: I have never heard of "freezebox" but my guess is that it´s the same as "ice box", an old expression for "refrigerator" that was used before electric refrigerators were popular: hielera / nevera, which these days is commonly referred to as "cooler" or "ice bucket", although some older people still use these words for a common refrigerator.
The picture shows a chest-freezer. Congelador horizontal. This may, or may not be what you are looking for. A firge, in Spain is usually a ' frigorífico'. The people of the '20's would be : La gente de los años veinte', I think.
I don't see the word freezebox in any dictionary of English.
By "people of the 20s" do you mean people who lived in the 1920s?
Please clarify your question and complete your profile.
La gente de los veintes.
People of the 1920's.
en el 1920's las personas usado caja de hielo.
