A local law firm sponsored the restoration of a 1960's Good Humor Ice Cream truck. One of the law firm partners was even dressed in the Good Humor man uniform and actually selling ice cream out of the truck. TOO COOL!
It won a trophy of course....
(Proceeds from the ice cream sales went to the local Rotary Club Charity)
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Cool stuff. Kinda reminds me of our local version that used to run around the streets. We had Mr Whippy. Well Mr Whippy vans are still around but most just park at busy areas now, not patrol the streets playing greensleeves from their PA system. Why greensleeves was chosen I will never know.
Much cooler than a Mr Whippy van
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Originally posted by AusFiero: Cool stuff. Kinda reminds me of our local version that used to run around the streets. We had Mr Whippy. Well Mr Whippy vans are still around but most just park at busy areas now, not patrol the streets playing greensleeves from their PA system. Why greensleeves was chosen I will never know.
Here, in Iowa, they use old delivery vans. About the size of a UPS van, they use standard lowboy freezers. I suppose that if you ran the freezer off of 110V all night, it might be good-to-go for the whole next day? The standard tune of choice is 'Music-box Dancer' from the '70's. I hate that frigging tune! 'Greensleeves' would be a big improvement.
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I can just imagine some guy behind the wheel selling Ice cream in the housing area and all the little Kids come out to buy their ice cream. The driver seeing the kids running after the truck and then the started laughing a floors it leaving the kids upset and walking back to their homes crying
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A local law firm sponsored the restoration of a 1960's Good Humor Ice Cream truck. One of the law firm partners was even dressed in the Good Humor man uniform and actually selling ice cream out of the truck. TOO COOL!
It won a trophy of course....
(Proceeds from the ice cream sales went to the local Rotary Club Charity)
I think this Truck is way too " hot " to carry ice cream.... lol
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Posts: 37533 From: Bandera, Texas, USA Registered: Jun 2003
Do you have any other pics of this door/sales exit ?
Here ya go. These are all I have. I wish I had shot more details of it. If you Google the law firm "Carlson Meissner" and look on their website there is some info about the history of the truck there.
It made me realize just how old I'm getting when I realized that it's been 40 years since these trucks prowled my neighborhood.
BTW, For those who mentioned the music their ice cream trucks played, these trucks never had any electronic music. In the 2nd pic down you'll note the lanyard coming out of the short pipe on the top of the windshield. In the 3rd pic you can see the distinctive row of bells that they rang coming down the street. MUCH more civilized than than a PA system.
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Posts: 6638 From: Los Angeles Registered: Oct 2001
During the summer, the ringing of the bell along streets in many American towns and cities meant one thing--the Good Humor Ice Cream Truck. It all began in 1920, when Ohio ice cream parlor owner Harry Burt followed his son’s suggestion and put chocolate coated ice cream on a stick. Before long, Burt had a fleet of a dozen trucks making door-to-door deliveries of his new Good Humor ice cream products.
The fleet of Good Humor trucks saw rapid expansion during the 1950’s and 1960’s. One of the trucks that were part of that explosive growth period was this 1969 Ford ice cream truck, which was originally placed in service delivering Good Humor Ice Cream to neighborhoods in Boston, Massachusetts. When the Good Humor Company stopped using trucks to sell ice cream in 1978, the distributor restored and warehoused this rare surviving vehicle. It was purchased years later by a resident of Hull, Massachusetts whose original intention was to let his son start a business. The son soon lost interest, and the truck was used to cater events for several summer seasons. The last event he catered from the vehicle was associated with the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston.
Paul Meissner purchased this vehicle in 2004 and it has appeared ever since at various fund raising and charitable events. The Law Firm of Carlson & Meissner donates all of the ice cream distributed at these events.
