Is That The Ice Cream Man Hear?

[Liu Bei]

What was your treat when the Ice Cream Man came by? I mixed it up between bomb pops, drumsticks, vanilla soft serve with rainbow sprinkles and even the occasionally toasted almond bar. The one I went to the most often, though, was the Screwball. I loved Italian Ice (Water Ice in my Philly 'hood) and always liked getting the gumball in the end. The gumball was frozen into a chalky flavorless-ness, but I loved it just the same. So what was your standby back in the day?

Don’t remember its name, but I always liked the clown-shaped ice cream stick whose nose was a gum ball. Not Bubble O’Bill either. It had a whiter, friendlier face.

[Bruce Banner]

Ice Cream vans still prowl the streets here regularly. I heard one the other day that used an ice-cream-chime version of "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" theme as its music.

[Gzilla2000]

My go to was always Bubble O' Bill and any money leftover was spent on Lemonheads and other Ferrara Pan candy.

[Earth 2 Chris]

We had an ice cream truck in our town...but I swear I could NEVER get that guy to stop for us! And we had like 3 to 6 kids in our group at one time or another. I've often wondered if the truck wasn't a front for something else, back then.

Oddly enough, my in-laws now help run an ice cream truck. The Choco Taco is pretty tasty.

Chris

[Random Axe]

Haven't taken advantage of an ice cream truck for the last 4o years or so but I distinctly remember orange push ups and that popcicle that had two handles and was red white and blue.

[palitoy]

I still have the sharpening guy rolling though my neighbourhood.

[MysteryWho]

We did not have ice cream trucks in my small town (we did have those guys with a sharpening stone on wheels ringing a bell, major innovation). All our ice cream came from the store, or a couple of places that sold "hard ice cream" in a cone, (mostly from the Stoney Creek dairy company). I did not see a bicycle guy or the ice cream truck actually cruising the streets until I went to high school in the city. At the time I thought, where the heck were you my entire childhood? But we did get our ice cream fix in other ways. I have a bit of an ice cream problem right now(I eat way too much of it). Do you guys remember these funny little cups of ice cream that came with a wooden stick and had flavor streaks swirled into vanilla?

[Klosterheim]

Oh man, the fates were smiling that day, always ask questions, it was purple on the outside, vanilla with cherry blood interior.

That's pretty awesome!

[PNGwynne]

As a kid, I would have loved that.

[palitoy]

Your'e always in the right place at the right time lol. What was the treat like--"bloody" cherry interior?

Oh man, the fates were smiling that day, always ask questions, it was purple on the outside, vanilla with cherry blood interior.

[PNGwynne]

Your'e always in the right place at the right time lol. What was the treat like--"bloody" cherry interior?

[palitoy]

Ours were on bikes and they were called "Dickie Dees" I don't know why. They sold this thing called a "Dracula Delight".

They went under in the late 1980s, in the 1990s I was at my friend's girlfriend's place and it turns out her uncle ran the Dickie Dees. They took me to the space freezer and I had possibly the last Dracula Delight in the world. It was magical.

[LordMudd]

We still have one in my neighborhood, which is great for the kids, but I hate that music.


CCC.

[Klosterheim]

I want my ice cream man to be the guy from Phantasm!, ha!, ha!, ha!, ha!, ha!

orange push ups
pink feet

from the store:

fudge sticks
scooter crunch
ice cream sandwiches

[TrekStar]

Haven't seen the ice cream truck in my neighborhood in years, but they came around often back in the day, and I enjoyed
getting what was called a circus suprise, it was orange or raspberry sherbet on a stick and when you finished, it reveled
a circus clown or circus/zoo animal, I would wash the stick and try to collect the set.