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A67615-1
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- 1952-07-26 (Creation)
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Exposure of warm room storage lockers for frozen foods at the Travellis Market in Seattle. The lockers were the "Cold Cache" brand manufactured by Room-Temp Lockers, Inc. in Tacoma. Paul M. Smith was the secretary-treasurer of the company and maintained offices in the Security Bldg., 917 Pacific Ave., Ste. #401. Before large volume home freezers were available, the thrifty homemaker had to rent freezer space in order to buy in quantity. Cold Cache freezers were designed to offer safe and economical storage for food in warm comfortable surroundings. They were being added to grocery stores to combine access to frozen food lockers with more convenient shopping locations. The lockers rented by the year and were designed to hold freezing temperatures even in a power outage. In this photograph, the butcher cuts meat while a customer stores her purchases in her locker. (TNT 8/5/1953, pg. 10)
Meat cutting--Seattle--1950-1960; Butcher shops--Seattle--1950-1960; Butchers--Seattle; Freezers; Meat;