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Originally posted by doublesharp:
is a hillbilly fan
got 78s by Hank Snow...

Walks down the street
shufflin his feet
to a rhythm that only he knows

Came through my neighborhood on a three wheel bicycle with a freezer box on the front full of treats and dry ice. I remember pushups, drumsticks, popsicles and fudgesicles.

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Originally posted by Haveme1or2:
Push ups !
They were orange sherbet. So much better than the sherbet nowadays !

Yep pushups. I guess the OP is a lot younger than I am. Ours were .10 cents or less.

We lived too far out in the country for an ice cream man but one of the neighbors had a churn and we'd be excited enough when that came out.

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Originally posted by o'sully:

quote:

Originally posted by doublesharp:
is a hillbilly fan
got 78s by Hank Snow...

Walks down the street
shufflin his feet
to a rhythm that only he knows

And I've seen him in so many places,
I saw him the night I was born,
In a Bourbon Street bar I received my first scar
From an old man so tattered and torn

Bomb-Pops

Push-Ups

Fudgesicles

or a Black Cherry snowcone if it's that sort of place/truck.

Good Humor Coconut Bars... Discontinue

Good Humor Toasted Almond

Choco-Malt bars Candy Bar Center

I don't remember having a favorite as a kid, though those memories may just be over written. In the '90s my friend had a truck and I'd run it now and again... then my favorite was the Chipwich and the Choco-taco.

I don't know about now days, but at the time the mark up was big. You could make a lot of money. He found a happy medium where he made enough just going out four hours a day. Which is a good thing. Because after a while, the kids and listening to that damn music, you wanted to shoot yourself. Any of the guys who'd been in the business a long time all seemed at least a little off. And it was easy to see why.

7 up bomb pops

Push ups were the cheapest. We always got push ups.

What was the tri-colored (red white blue) rocket pop-sickle.

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Originally posted by r0gue:
What was the tri-colored (red white blue) rocket pop-sickle.

That's the bomb pop.

"Mine was a Toasted Almond from the Good Humor man"

exactly the same here. small white truck that drove slow thru the neighborhood w some jingle like sound. I was especially lucky because he had to drive into a dead end and turn around. So I usually heard him entering, and then waited for him to come back on his return run.

orange Creamsicles were a close second

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Originally posted by SgtGold:
Growing up in NYC we had the white suited Good Humor carts/trucks, Mr. Softie with the jingle, and the shaved ice carts. So in order my favorites were chocolate eclair, soft vanilla dipped in chocolate, and root beer.

Not only the Piraqua cart but also the Coquito cart. Douglas Projects, Manhattan.