BLODGETT, Ore. (AP) — A vintage walk-in cooler that helped chill the hot summer at the Blodgett Country Store is gone for good.
The cooler had been a feature since the early 1930s at the rural store off Highway 20 on the way to the Oregon coast from Corvallis.
It was a place where hunters brought their game and where heat-weary locals would sometimes gather in the days before air conditioning.
The wooden, 12-by-16-foot walk-in cooler also served as one of Benton County’s largest beer coolers.
But when the compressor stopped working last month, store owner Mark Scacco told the Corvallis Gazette-Times the cooler was too old to fix, and it was finally retired — for good.
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Information from: Gazette-Times, http://www.gtconnect.com
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