Boy howdy, that’s the biggest ice cube I’ve ever seen

How to chill out.
How to refrigerate anything without a refrigerator. my dad told me what his Mom’sfamily had done living back on the farm in the 1920s and 1930s southern rural Oklahoma.
. He said they used was an A-frame structure with burlap material draped down the frame. It was placed outside on their back Poarch. A pan of water was placed atop with tiny dripping holes. Allowing small amounts of water to soak down into the burlap and then the outside breezes would filter through the burlap and create an evaporative cooler effect. Inside the A-frame tent would be placed perishable foods but kept cool by water evaporation. How cool is that?
Way back when during one of our hot August road trips we would visit my aunt Minnie and uncle Warren in Wilson, Oklahoma. One of our activities when visiting, was to go into town and buy a 50-pound block of ice from the Wilson ice house. An ice house roustabout with clamping ice hooks came out to the edge of the ice house shipping dock and place a huge block of almost clear ice on the dock. Then my dad and older brother would man-handle the ice block and place into the trunk of our car. Then and finally, the fun part was getting the 50-pound block of ice into my aunt Minnie’s kitchen and place it in her non-electric ‘icebox.’ An insulated appliance with insulated door and heavy latch. Again, a place to store perishables and keep them cool. It was A structure with its own aura. Maybe Somewhat musty with a hint of mildew with a drip pan below.
Even in modern-day 1950s Los Angeles I recall rather large ice trucks coming down our residential streets with loads of ice to be delivered to those houses who still had an old-fashioned icebox. However, we had a Sears electric refrigerator. How cool was that.
Finally, when visiting my wife-to-b home town her family’s church met in an old abandoned ice house. Instead of a church steeple her church had a tall louvered water evaporating tower. How cool was that for sure.
Now to show how far we have come the new Google processing center east of Tulsa has dozens of louvered evaporative cooling towers. With access to a large volume of water the center can cool down hundreds of digital processors and keep the huge warehouse buildings down to a controlled 80-degrees. Now, that is cool. Right?