| Date: Wed 06/17/09 3:00PM From: Roger Hulslander Email: roger22@nc.rr.com Message: The Good Humor Man (George)in the fifties drove a pickup truck with a freezer on the back. Something like Schwanns today. We would watch him come down Hemlock Street from Fulton. Sometimes we would stop playing stickball and have an ice cream. |
| Date: Wed 06/17/09 12:02PM From: TOM EARVOLINO Email: tjje@optonline.net Message: The light green icecream truck that made its rounds in cypress hills was called Freezer Fresh and the guys name was Lucky. |
| Date: Tue 06/16/09 9:19PM From: Jimmy P Email: wdstk170@hvc.rr.com Message: Hey John, the other truck that had soft ice cream was light green and white. I think it was Mr.Frosty! or something with Frosty or Freeze in it. Jimmy |
| Date: Tue 06/16/09 11:33AM From: John from Shepherd Email: n2izeonline@verizon.net Message: Ah yes, Mt. Softee. There was also another ice cream truck that came around in those days too. Can't remember his name though. I used to love the soft vanilla ice cream drenched in chocolate sprinkles. I remember a jelly apple man who came down Shepherd ave when I was quite young. I remember my mom bought me a jelly apple from him. It was the old fashioned kind with the soft jelly. I haven't been able to find one of those since then. |
| Date: Tue 06/16/09 3:17AM From: Al Gavin Email: alter@optonline.net Message: Seltzer bottles had pewter tops. Cott to be good was always around. Had a Mr Softee cone the other day, $2. Was a dime in 68. |
| Date: Sat 06/13/09 3:15PM From: John from Shepherd Email: n2izeonline@verizon.net Message: Yes, as a matter of fact the bleach man used to deliver to my house. There were always a few of those gla** gallon jugs of bleach in the cellar. Every so often he'd pick up them emptys and leave new ones. Yes, I remember the trucks with the rides. was the "half moon" the ride where you would sit in a basket (boat) like contraption and the guy would manually rock the thing up and down ? I remember they would come to my street almost everyday. The guy usually parked in front of the "haunted house" on Shepherd. These days the cost of gas and insurance would probably make such rides prohibitively expensive. Yes, I remember Drakes cakes which would be delivered to your door. I also remember a bakery called Dugan's who would deliver. Matter of fact the Dugan's man would deliver to our place. And of course the milk man, delivering milk in those cla** bottles. I remember around Christmas you could order egg nog which would also be delivered in those gla** bottles. I don't remember too many seltzer trucks at the time I was living there (1959 - 1966) but I do remember the Hammer Soda man would deliver to our house. I also remember seeing coal delivery trucks. matter of fact the house next door to use used to get coal deliveries before they switched over to oil. |
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