Happy Friday Guys and Dolls:
With summer in full force and the temps reaching in the 90’s down here and I’m sure where you live too, my thoughts turned to ice cream. I love ice cream but my urges for it comes and goes for weeks at a time. I was thinking about the good old days and the types of ice cream I enjoyed as a kid and I’m sure you’ll remember yours too. I remember going to Carl & Mary’s Candy Store on the corner of Home Ave. and Beatty St. many times at night for a great vanilla milkshake. Carl made it nice and thin with a great vanilla flavor. Sometimes I drank it so fast I suffered a brain freeze. We also had a place called the Burg Dairy on Home Ave. that made the best homemade ice cream ever. They had a great variety of flavors and my favorite was the Walk-Away-Sundae. It was made for one person but believe me you could share it with a friend and be stuffed.
Besides enjoying ice cream in the true parlor fashion, we also enjoyed those fast treats. You know the ones I’m talking about, either from the ice cream truck man or in those freezers you had to bend over and pick the type you wanted. Let’s see what I remember. We had:
Dixie Cups with the small wooden spoons.
Twin Ice Pops – my favorite flavors were root beer and vanilla.
Dreamsicles and Creamsicles – tasted the same to me.
Fudgesicles – one of my favorites, but it could get messy.
Ice Cream Sandwiches – that chocolate always stuck to my fingers.
Rockets – that red, white and blue pop.
Vanilla Crunch Bars – had that little nutty crunch stuff on the chocolate covering.
Nutty Buddies and Drumsticks.
And finally one of my favorites still today frozen custard. Now if any of you Speakies remember any you enjoyed as a kid send me a comment, don’t be shy. I enjoy reading your comments and thoughts.
I’m going enjoy the weekend, my grand kiddies are coming to visit and I haven’t seen them for a few months and plan to enjoy and spoil them to death. To all of you have a great weekend and be careful out there.
With summer in full force and the temps reaching in the 90’s down here and I’m sure where you live too, my thoughts turned to ice cream. I love ice cream but my urges for it comes and goes for weeks at a time. I was thinking about the good old days and the types of ice cream I enjoyed as a kid and I’m sure you’ll remember yours too. I remember going to Carl & Mary’s Candy Store on the corner of Home Ave. and Beatty St. many times at night for a great vanilla milkshake. Carl made it nice and thin with a great vanilla flavor. Sometimes I drank it so fast I suffered a brain freeze. We also had a place called the Burg Dairy on Home Ave. that made the best homemade ice cream ever. They had a great variety of flavors and my favorite was the Walk-Away-Sundae. It was made for one person but believe me you could share it with a friend and be stuffed.
Besides enjoying ice cream in the true parlor fashion, we also enjoyed those fast treats. You know the ones I’m talking about, either from the ice cream truck man or in those freezers you had to bend over and pick the type you wanted. Let’s see what I remember. We had:
Dixie Cups with the small wooden spoons.
Twin Ice Pops – my favorite flavors were root beer and vanilla.
Dreamsicles and Creamsicles – tasted the same to me.
Fudgesicles – one of my favorites, but it could get messy.
Ice Cream Sandwiches – that chocolate always stuck to my fingers.
Rockets – that red, white and blue pop.
Vanilla Crunch Bars – had that little nutty crunch stuff on the chocolate covering.
Nutty Buddies and Drumsticks.
And finally one of my favorites still today frozen custard. Now if any of you Speakies remember any you enjoyed as a kid send me a comment, don’t be shy. I enjoy reading your comments and thoughts.
I’m going enjoy the weekend, my grand kiddies are coming to visit and I haven’t seen them for a few months and plan to enjoy and spoil them to death. To all of you have a great weekend and be careful out there.
7 comments:
Well Joe:
From the other "old neighborhood" there were a few places that came to mind ... and once I knew about The Burg Dairy, that was on my list but ..
Take a stroll past Stanley's Tavern with his sign for "Color TV" and make a turn towards E. J. Korvettes but stop at Costa Cottage.
Then with a car .. we did not have one till the early 60's .. there was Roy Brehiler's on Olden. He went nuts later in life and ended up letting the place go and tried to corner the market of huge piles of firewood that just rotted.
What was the one in Lawrence out on the Lawrenceville Pennington Road.
Best IMHO was over by Reedman's at the Greenwood Dairy for the Pigs Dinner ... free if you could finish it and my dad had a bunch of pins "I was a pig at Greenwood Dairy".
Skipper
"Joe close that freezer and make up your mind, you are letting all the cold air out" .. ring a bell ??
When you mentioned St. Hedwig's and walk home lunches, that reminded me that I would do that for a few years too.
In September, the Good Humor truck would still be making rounds and I remember getting in trouble just waiting for him and then running like blazes back to school.
Still can't remember that place in Lawrence? driving me nutz...
Skip
Skip: I remember Breiler's on Olden Ave. There was Artic Ice Cream and I remember a Buxton's Dairy out Lawrenceville way. Never ate at the Greenwood Dairy.
Yes, it was Buxton's ... drat .. you got it just as I remembered it too!
Arctic was never high on my list.
The cute (but of course older .. all of 17), waitress in Costa Cottage had my full attention.
There was also Parfait House just past Arctic.
How about the original Swifts Colonial Diner and that banana cream pie .. ?? One of my rites of passage .. sadly ... parents went there once a week for dinner when I was a kid. I lived for that pie. Out of the Navy, they said they were going out and I started to get ready but dad cut me short ... "That's time for just me and Mom now" ... I, was crushed.
But they always brought me a slice of that pie.
Skip
I use to go to the Parfait House on Rt. 33 with my parents for Friday fish dinners. Their sundaes were great and they had a good steak sandwich also. I don't remember a Cozy Cottage. I lived four houses down from Stanley's Tavern and if you made a turn on Myrtle St. and head towards Princeton, there was Anthony's Chicken Store on one corner and I can't remember the other corner, I thought it was a glass company.
Triangle Ice Cream, Division St,
The Burg
Phillip Arthur, Broad Street, Hamilton
That Custard Stand mear where
Hubers used to rent paddle boats
amd canoes on the Delaware Canal,
Route 29, Washingtons Crossing area.
Thanks Mack and the list grows. There was Gravatts near the Independence Mall now closed a long time. There was a place near the Brunswick Circle called Afternoon Delight. I still have fond memories of that tomato pie place across from the Brunswick Theater called Cassianni's. No ice cream but great tomato pie.
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