Just got a new one in July but when I was married, my husband and I renovated a country Victorian home that was built in 1865. I didn't want an "icebox"; that would've been just downright tedious so I found a refrigerator, one from the year 1913, the kind w/the big generator on top. It was impossible up until that time to find one that worked and all the others were priced at a minimum of $400 (this was over 20 years ago) and who knows how much it would've cost to get it running, if that was even possible.
We paid $50 for it, the man who sold it to us was delighted to get it out of his basement, and it took 4 men to carry it. I finally sold it 6 years ago when I bought this house and it was still in good working condition! I sold it for what I paid for it and I know that the man who bought it from me was just as delighted as I. We both knew a good deal when we saw it. It had the original brass GE plate and a foot pedal to open the door if your hands were full. I often wish that I still had it.
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