Scott,
"This old family photo shows the Young & Christian delivery truck for ice and coal, dated around the late 1920's.
Thanks to S. Young for sending in this Picture.
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randy mattinson"
so the 'Young & Christian' was a ice and coal delivery business? Did it operate solely on the beach, or in Hamilton too? If just the former, did it have storage facilities on the beach for its ice and coal? The Ocean House Hotel had a ficility that stored about 100 tuns of ice, And by 1920 the Hamilton and Northwestern Railroad (H&NW) was operating on the beach, and delivering coal to the pump house. So maybe the Young & Christian Company was purchasing coal from the H&NW, and had a storage facility on the beach?
Fred indicates in the 'Hamilton Museum of Steam and Technology thread, that before the H&NW began running on the beach in 1878, that coal was delivered to the pump house by horse-drawn cart.
http://hamiltonbeachcommunity.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-542.html
It would be interesting to know exactly when ice and coal was first delivered to the houses on the beach.