Founded in 1986

The Ice Box Company was founded in 1986 with the invention of the original EZ-Bagger (B-28) by the founder and owner the late Mr. Stephen Carl Rhodes Sr. (“Steve” aka The Original Ice Man). The Company was incorporated in 1987. The original company site was 3926 Wesley Street in Myrtle Beach SC. Steve drew the original Snow Man Skating on the ice bags design in Murrel’s Inlet, SC sitting at a bar, which is a trademarked design still used by the company today. Our first ice bags were produced by Arrow Industries with the oversight of Mr. Rhodes’ lifelong friend and business associate Mr. Richard LaFleur in 1987. Two Years later he developed our larger bagger the B28-20. In 1997, he started what is known as our Slug in program where Convenience Stores are able to get their store name, address, and phone number on their ice bags to comply with becoming stricter health department guidelines to help the small mom-and-pop convenience stores to stay in compliance. He originally started that program in conjunction with his friend Bob at Iva Poly in Iva, SC. In 2009, he had a new vison for the ice bagging industry and created the 3rd dimension of the ice bagger which is named after him and his desires for the bagger, our SR3D (restaurant style bagger), which is trademarked in both Canada and the US. The Ice Box Company was relocated at his desire in 2012 to his home of SunSet Beach, NC, and continues to operate as a small business today.