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America's oldest fridge still keeping cool

It might have been around for what feels like an ice age, but a refrigerator still chilling after almost 85 years could be the oldest in America.

The fridge -- which shows no signs of freezing up -- cost around $300 when it was first produced by General Electric, equivalent to a staggering $4,225 today.

It is believed to be the oldest working fridge in the US -- a title once belonging to a 1938 flat top GE model owned by Mike Ansel from Pennsylvania.

But the three-foot-tall Globe Top monitor top cooler, currently owned by Mark Vail and Jane Galyean from Montgomery, New York, was purchased around eight years earlier....

Read entire article at NY Post