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Richard J Bennett Jr's avatar

I didn't know about lumberjacks cutting ice in the winter. That was helpful for maintaining an income year round. Thanks for the info.

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Andrew Sniderman 🕷️'s avatar

The lakes around the cabin are called Ice Lakes and I vaguely knew why, but I didn't realize it was such a big bizness.

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Andrew Smith's avatar

Ice traders were cool! I thought about going back in time and becoming one not terribly long ago. I think that would be the sort of thing I'd try to do if I were alive 150 years ago, give or take.

I'm firmly in Gen X, but approaching the tail end, so I got to see a bunch of that tech you identified with Millennials coming to fruition during my adolescence. The thing was, I was anchored to the Gen X tech, so I never adopted CDs - like never. I owned LPs, 7 inches, and tapes. CD players came out and I never bought one, so I just leapfrogged straight to streaming.

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Andrew Sniderman 🕷️'s avatar

Did you skip tapes? I gave and got mix tapes and my college was all tapes on the boombox

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Andrew Smith's avatar

No way- I was super into mixtapes! I really liked to get the timing right so there would be a little pause and NO commercials or DJs talking, just like I had purchased a tape with the song I wanted on it.

It was like snatching money out of the air.

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Rosanne Sniderman's avatar

Hahaha Westing house. ♥️

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Andrew Sniderman 🕷️'s avatar

lol I can hear him. I'm westing!

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