"ICE CREAM MAN!!!" Remember when? Favorites?

RE: "ICE CREAM MAN!!!" Remember when? Favorites? (bartl)

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:20:48 GMT

Good Humor made something called "Tiger Stripes" in the mid-60's that I loved. I remembered that it had root beer ices, but it wasn't until about a decade ago that I realized that the orange stripes were, well, orange ices.

Bart

RE: "ICE CREAM MAN!!!" Remember when? Favorites? (Hepcat)

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 11:48:43 GMT

Charity
What was the sherbert-y orange thing on a plastic handle/base that had a flat molded figure frozen inside the treat - revealed as you ate it and "collectible"? Buried Treasure, maybe? It seems to me we had that a lot.

It was indeed Buried Treasure made by Good Humour. It was a blend of vanilla ice cream and orange sherbet and was my favourite. I used to get Buried Treasures in variety stores though. No ice cream trucks came down my street when I was a kid. As a result, I regarded them as something magical that existed in the States.

RE: "ICE CREAM MAN!!!" Remember when? Favorites? (suemo)

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 01:09:44 GMT

I haven't seen an ice cream truck since we moved to Monterey (CA), but there's no shortage of guys (sometimes women) pushing hand-propelled carts up and down the sidewalks. One parks himself outside my son's school every afternoon and does great business. My son likes the cartoon-themed treats (basically popsicles shaped like Bugs Bunny or Sonic's head), as a child I usually chose a missile, was always delighted to get a blue rather than the more typical yellow/orange (tutti-fruity?)

Re:"ICE CREAM MAN!!!" Remember when? Favorites? (bartl)

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 13:15:04 GMT

Mosca

Williamsburger

I don't remember what these things were called, but my favorite was an plastic cone filled with ice cream (sherbet?) and a gumball at the botton in the tip of the cone!
Cathy

Screwball.

Please be polite, and just tell him what it was called!

Re:"ICE CREAM MAN!!!" Remember when? Favorites? (Mosca)

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 21:53:52 GMT

Williamsburger

I don't remember what these things were called, but my favorite was an plastic cone filled with ice cream (sherbet?) and a gumball at the botton in the tip of the cone!
Cathy

Screwball.

Re:"ICE CREAM MAN!!!" Remember when? Favorites? (Williamsburger)

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:23:32 GMT

I don't remember what these things were called, but my favorite was an plastic cone filled with ice cream (sherbet?) and a gumball at the botton in the tip of the cone!
Cathy

RE: "ICE CREAM MAN!!!" Remember when? Favorites? (MellowRoast)

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:55:21 GMT

MacTAC: Yes, I was totally fascinated with them and listened for the cow bell every day during the summer. In fact, I remember they sold Liggett's Ice Cream at the time, and I believe Liggett's was based in NYC.

RE: "ICE CREAM MAN!!!" Remember when? Favorites? (MacTAC)

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:49:59 GMT

leethebard

Never saw that one in the 50's!!

Levittown Long Island, beside Good Humor, Bungalow Bar and Judy Ann, we had an independent, Cosmo aka Little Boy Blue, who was our favorite. Rarely there would be a Howard Johnson ice cream truck, just like this...

http://www.diecast.org/di...92229/qx/reviewpix.htm

I would sometimes see those ice cream pushcarts in NYC, MellowRoast. I thought they were really cool.

http://img.auctiva.com/im...ebimg/334261092_tp.jpg

RE: "ICE CREAM MAN!!!" Remember when? Favorites? (MellowRoast)

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 16:16:23 GMT

Oh, gosh, I guess I'm really dating myself on this, but our ice cream man pushed a 3-wheel cart up and down the street, ringing a cow bell. I remember ordering orange push-ups, but particularly loved double popsicles, specifically grape and banana flavors.

RE: "ICE CREAM MAN!!!" Remember when? Favorites? (leethebard)

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:38:05 GMT

Never saw that one in the 50's!!

RE: "ICE CREAM MAN!!!" Remember when? Favorites? (MacTAC)

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 18:43:56 GMT

ynotryme

we had mr softy in central ny...

Still have on Long Island and all over NYC in the summertime...

http://americanthings.fil...m-by-martin-kelley.jpg

This is another iconic truck from my long ago youth, leethebard...

http://www.allflashback.com/images/BungalowBar.jpg

RE: "ICE CREAM MAN!!!" Remember when? Favorites? (ynotryme)

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 18:16:52 GMT

we had mr softy in central ny and my favorite was the vanilla black raspberry twirl. here they have frozen treats but they are overpriced typically $3:50.

RE: "ICE CREAM MAN!!!" Remember when? Favorites? (leethebard)

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:59:50 GMT

Yes,that's the one I remember too!!!

RE: "ICE CREAM MAN!!!" Remember when? Favorites? (MacTAC)

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:37:42 GMT

leethebard

Had to be the good old fashioned good humor truck...

This was my era truck, but the ice creams were 10 cents for ices and 15 for ice cream...

http://www.isntlifeterrib...images/2351-792537.jpg

RE: "ICE CREAM MAN!!!" Remember when? Favorites? (leethebard)

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:07:18 GMT

Had to be the good old fashioned good humor truck...and the man with the white uniform. Today's trucks just aren't the same!!

RE: "ICE CREAM MAN!!!" Remember when? Favorites? (Joisey)

Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:54:27 GMT

We used to have Mister Softee and occasionally good humor. One thing I used to love from GH was the cola flavored italian ice cups. All these years later (im 48 now) and I still crave it, but haven't found them again.

Re:"ICE CREAM MAN!!!" Remember when? Favorites? (mar52)

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:11:09 GMT

The ice cream truck was one of my most mortifying experiences.

The setting:

Griffith Park, large ice cream truck, huge crowd of kids and adults.

The scene:

Ice cream man is standing in the doorway taking orders, standing above the crowd.

The occurance:

Finally my turn and I say.... ""I'll have a Strawberry Short C**k"

I left without my ice cream. I ran as my dear friends were laughing because everyone heard it.

This was about 30 years ago and it still haunts me.

Re:"ICE CREAM MAN!!!" Remember when? Favorites? (enginecapt)

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:05:50 GMT

Good Humor strawberry shortcake bars.

To be perfectly honest, I was much more a fan of listening for the Helms Bakery
truck whistle than I was the "Turkey in the Straw" music of the ice cream man.

Re:"ICE CREAM MAN!!!" Remember when? Favorites? (BBurge)

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:57:28 GMT

No remember when here either. Ice cream man lives 2 doors down. Has 2 trucks that he takes to opposite areas.

RE: "ICE CREAM MAN!!!" Remember when? Favorites? (webeanrf)

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:37:42 GMT

At the risk of dating myself....I can recall the ice cream man coming thru my neighborhood in Pennsauken NJ
with a horse draw cart. His speciality was an ice cream sandwich...a slab of vanilla ice cream between to waffles and sprinkled with
powdered sugar. He made the waffles right there on the wagon and the ice cream would start to melt between the hot waffles.
It was a glorious mess to eat.

RE: "ICE CREAM MAN!!!" Remember when? Favorites? (tcrouzer)

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:11:50 GMT

We still have an "Ice Cream Man" tooling around town this summer. Kind of nice to know that he is still on the scene, even if the prices of ice cream treats are so high now.

My favorites were Push-Ups followed by Creamsicles or Fudgesicles.

RE: "ICE CREAM MAN!!!" Remember when? Favorites? (leethebard)

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:13:57 GMT

Some threads are just fun to read,,,memories...laughs...this is one!! Thanks all!

RE: "ICE CREAM MAN!!!" Remember when? Favorites? (Rusty246)

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:03:15 GMT

AndreaB

I liked those red, white, and blue Rocket Pops or whatever they were called. Also, the cups with the wooden spoon and a gumball at the bottom.

Andrea

Bomb pops, screwballs.

RE: "ICE CREAM MAN!!!" Remember when? Favorites? (AndreaB)

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:19:08 GMT

I liked those red, white, and blue Rocket Pops or whatever they were called. Also, the cups with the wooden spoon and a gumball at the bottom.

Andrea

RE: "ICE CREAM MAN!!!" Remember when? Favorites? (NanaLenore)

Mon, 24 May 2010 15:34:40 GMT

In the early 70s I lived in a rather up-scale South Shore of Long Island neighborhood. The Good Humor Man used to pull right into my backyard (because that was most of the neighborhood kids played). I also had a huge (for the neighborhood) vegetable garden and he would often trade me ice cream for veggies right out of the garden.

RE: "ICE CREAM MAN!!!" Remember when? Favorites? (ntodd)

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:59:14 GMT

Uncle Jimmy's ice cream truck in Trenton NJ. Who remembers this. My dad is Salvatore DeMaria and also known as Frank.
He sold ice cream in the Trenton area, I went with him a couple times and even got to ring the bells. He sold in the evening since it was his second job.
He wore his pressed black slacks, white shirt and black tie. He wore the changer on his belt.
Those were the days when they took pride in being the ice cream man.
Does anyone remember him? Send me a message at nandntodd@aol.com
Would love to hear from you. He will be turning 89 in April.

RE: "ICE CREAM MAN!!!" Remember when? Favorites? (Mosca)

Mon, 17 Jul 2006 18:29:20 GMT

Oops, hit send too early...

I'll work on my memory, I'll have more. Some of what happened was funny, some was sad. It's a vantage point from which you can watch a neighborhood over a period of 5 years.

We had one ice cream guy, a black guy named Fud. That wasn't his real name of course. He got it as a little kid because he stuttered. Fud was about as straight arrow as a guy could be, never got in trouble.

The Good Humor distribution center in Pittsburgh is in Oakmont, right alongside the Allegheny River, and some guys rode the bus instead of driving back into the city after work (typically around 10PM). If you missed the bus in Oakmont, you had to cross the river and catch the last bus in Harmarville. Oh, and Oakmont and Harmar are pretty much white.

So Fud missed the bus in Oakmont because he was late getting back from his route (flat tire). He locked up his truck and plugged the freezer in, grabbed his bag of money and took off running over the bridge toward the Harmar bus stop... you can put the rest of the picture together yourself if you want. A black guy, running across the bridge in Oakmont, at 10:30 at night, with a money bag containing about $400 in change and small bills. And of course the local police were at that very moment cruising toward him.

I have to give the guy credit for not blowing his cool completely; I heard the story from him the next day, as he told about watching the bus go by in the distance, explaining over and over again who he was and what he was doing there at that time and why he was running and where the money was from, as they kept trying to get him to change his story. I don't remember where he spent the night, I think in his truck back at the garage. All he kept saying was, "But damn! I wasn't doing anything different than from what anyone else was doing!" And he knew that he couldn't say what he wanted to in front of the white guys, but we knew what he meant. Most of us white guys don't ever get that close a look at racism in action.

A year or two after that Fud converted to an Islamic cult, changed his name, and started wearing white robes. The group he joined wasn't like a real Muslim group; it was a Muslim group in the same way that the Branch Davidians were a Christian group. He gave his truck and all his posessions to his mosque, and for the next few years there were reports that it was carrying Muslims around the Hill District. I lost track of Fud then, we weren't "in the same social circle" at that point. I saw him once as a Muslim. He seemed OK. He explained to me about removing his worldly possessions and all that. I'm sure that a lot of his conversion was fueled by racial frustration.

I know that wasn't really a "food" or "ice cream" story, but it's one I remember pretty close to what happened. You don't always get to pick the order in which they come back.

Tom

RE: "ICE CREAM MAN!!!" Remember when? Favorites? (Mosca)

Mon, 17 Jul 2006 18:00:49 GMT

Chip Candy Crunch! The cake-covered candy center was the Chocolate Fudge Cake.

My last season in the truck was 1985, so memory is getting to me.

RE: "ICE CREAM MAN!!!" Remember when? Favorites? (doggydaddy)

Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:13:52 GMT

The Good Humor ice cream man would go down our driveway when in the neighborhood in Wilton, Ct. We were a family of five boys and an easy sell. My favorite and still is the Candy bar. It was a chocolate covered vanilla stick with a candy bar inside. It was one of those things where you would eat the coating and ice cream just to savor the candy bar on the inside. The gas station and 7/11 nearby both carry Good Humor, and I will still pick up one.

Where I live now, there are two competing trucks that roll around before dinner time. Seems like bad timing to me as you would think that it would kill the kids appetites. Then again, you need to look at the waistlines of some of these kids. One of the trucks carries soft serve, and I would get that except for its bad timing. Too early.

Somebody mentioned It's-It. Boy do I miss those. The chocoholic in me was always satisfied with their chocolate version.

mark

RE: "ICE CREAM MAN!!!" Remember when? Favorites? (roossy90)

Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:22:00 GMT

quote:
Originally posted by Mosca

Some of the guys who drove the trucks were normal; some of them were very strange. One guy, we called Spock, he ate heads of raw garlic because he hated people and wanted to stink on purpose, to keep them away. He used to be normal, but he got in a bad accident in the truck, rolled it and suffered brain damage, and turned into a wierdo.

Tom

---Too funny. well not really.. but I like the way you told that story.......