ice before its time

A radio show let me see in to the time before refrigerating. The show was called the Cisco Kid. And it had all the players the bad guys that wanted the land, tha damsel in distress. That owened the land, and the good guys that saved her from the bad guys. You see there was a under ground glacier of frozen earth.bad guys found out about it and killed the damsels Father. The good guys found out what the bad guys did.took out the bad guys and saved the day. She stip mined that frozen earth witw as used to keep boxcars cool for transport it was gold mine of sorts

It would really be helpful if you would link to the column, beanieboy. Was it this one?

How was ice made and sold in pre-industrial times?

I remember the Cisco Kid as a TV show from when I myself was a kid (though not this particular story). He was a Mexican cowboy who [del]made computer networking equipment[/del] had a sidekick called Pancho. It is not a show you ever seem to hear people being nostalgic about, and the character has not been revived for a movie lately, so perhaps it was not any good, but I was too young to know the difference at the time.

The Cisco Kid was a friend of mine.

And you, Senator, are no Cisco Kid.

Some of us regard 1994 as “lately”.