Chalk another one up to nostalgia. It is the selling feature of these products. Some social commentators blame fear of the future and the impending millennium for this fin de siecle pining. As machines go, the ice crusher is pretty basic technically and democratic by design. Still, the way I see it, humans tend to be a sentimental and revisionist lot, whether or not we're facing a quadruple-cadigit rollover.
Time goes by.
We grow older. We look back. Everything glows a bit sweeter from that vantage point, even ice crushers. All rights reserved. Any copying, redistribution, or retransmission of any of the contents of this service without the express written consent of Philadelphia Newspapers Inc. is expressly prohibited.