Back before there were shiny white freezer boxes with plastic bags of crushed ice inside, crushed ice was sold in paper bags. Yep,,,paper bags! It was sold at the few convenience stores that were around and small grocery stores like my dad's. The local maker of crushed ice would bring it to the stores in large, five foot tall, three foot wide heavy canvas bags weighing between 75 and 100 pounds. The bags had a metal bottom so they would stand up in the back of the trucks that delivered them. The deliveryman would carry them on his back and dump them into a large cooler in the store. The coolers never had a temperature near freezing because the ice would stick together. The store would use a big heavy chrome scoop to fill the heavy, three layer paper bags,,,either 5 or 10 pound size. Two of the layers were insulation while the third, inside layer was a heavy wax paper like paper to prevent leakage.