"In 1928, West Texas Utilities Company (located at 100 Cottonwood Street) built an ice station at 1102 South Commercial Avenue.  It measured 22 x 45 feet, exceeding in dimensions any station the company has built, and was set back 30 feet from the property line.  The station was of Spanish design, the type of architecture which the West Texas Utilities Company was found to be so adaptable in similar buildings throughout the territory it serves.  Fire resisting materials were used in the building, with the walls of brick, covered with stucco.  The floors and serving platforms were of concrete and the roof of mission tile of variegated colors. A series of walls and arches made especially unique by tile inserts of mosaic design and decorations of ornamental iron, combined to screen the serving platforms.  A small tower, combining Spanish and Byzantine architecture and ornamented with a brightly colored tile dome, topped the roof at the front.  The ice vault, of 20 ton capacity, was kept below freezing temperature by a motor driven refrigerating machine which was equipped with an automatic control.  Loss of ice through melting was eliminated by this device.  The station was loaded from the back side, preventing delay or inconvenience to customers while the vault was being refilled.  A small office was included.  Concrete driveways led from the streets to the serving platforms.  Flower beds were included and were filled with shrubbery and vines.  A double electric sign, visible from either street, was placed at the corner of the property and beautified with ornamental iron and shrubbery.  A flood light was placed in the angle formed by the signs, flooding the building with light at night. 

"This ice service station of West Texas Utilities Company (later Coleman Ice and Cold Storage Company) did not make ice, only sell it.  The ice was made at the plant which was located on Cottonwood Street, behind the courthouse.  In 1977, J. E. Stevens Company remodeled the old West Texas Utilities Company building for a warehouse.  The ice service station provided a closer pick up place for ice if you lived on the south side of Coleman.  Between 1930 and 1948, a frame addition was made to the north side of the old West Texas Utilities ice station building.  By 1954, the Coleman Ice and Cold Storage Company had closed and the building was occupied by Gandy’s Dairies, Inc.  Bill Stiles was the manager in 1962.  Gandy’s remained at this location until after 1976.  By 1981, their address was shown as 103 West Fourth Street (probably the Gandy agent), but by 1987, they were back at 1102 South Commercial Avenue.  No telephone number for Gandy Dairies, Inc. was listed after 1996.  In its later years, the building stayed vacant and the parking lot was used by Gandy’s trucks making deliveries to different places. At some point the frame addition on the north side was removed, but the slab remains.  The building was restored about 2005, and became the location of Coleman Communications – Mid Tex Cellular, agent for West Central Wireless."  (Looking Backwards, 1940-1980, compiled by Ralph Terry)