My hubby and I were giddy the first time we heard the Ice Cream truck drive through our neighborhood, music tinkling happily along playing the theme to The Sting, drawing the kids out to the street with money in hand.
I‘m so happy we live in an area where this sort of thing is still done. I don’t remember the ice cream man in my neighorhood when I was growing up, but I do have memories of one coming around at different times to pools or some other places I happened to be at when I was young.
It was always fun to grab some change, run out to the truck, and see what he had to offer. I used to love banana popsicles and fudgesicles. Still do as a matter of fact. I just bought some fudgesicles that were on sale at the grocery store and I sure have been enjoying them.
Summer and the ice cream man….the kids sure do love to see him coming
Bye-bye for now Mr. Ice Cream Man…please come back soon! Does the ice cream man visit your neighborhood?Me and Mary, my designer friend, worked all day in Tuscaloosa on Friday. It turned out awesome! I don’t think I’ll be able to share any more pics though from those redesigns, cause the homeowners have to agree and it’s sort of awkward asking for permission. It was fun though!
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Ohhhhhhhhhhh, I remember the Ice Cream Man on my street as a child! EVERY NIGHT! I would get $.15 for a 7-Up popsicle! We had so many kids on our street, I swear he would be there 10-15 minutes every night! It was so much fun!
I really don’t see many of them around anymore, in any of the homes we have lived in. Things are really so different nowadays than when I was growing up.
Thanks for the memories!
Bella
Yeah! It is great to live where we have the ice cream trucks! DD does not get to enjoy it b/c of our busy street. But if we are at the park… 🙂
I wanted to work one of the trucks while in college. For a young kid at home, the pay is great! B/c of my age, my mom had to sign a waiver, purchase a rider on her insurance and the owner wanted me to carry a gun. I was under 21. My mom said, ‘No way!’. My uncle was so mad at her. LOL! I was being handed this job/route and would make enough in one-two summers to finish paying for my college education. He was giving me the gun. LOL!
I love that! I was at the beach two weekens ago and they had a Ice Cream Truck who drove down the beach and another one who walked with a cart…both had the music…I loved it and thought what a good idea that was! Screaming Meme
Oh, yes! The “Ice Cream Man” still makes his rounds on my parents’ street. You can hear that music from blocks away! My daughter’s ears were finely tuned to it; she and my mom would not even wait for him to drive down our street. They would hop on their bicycles (or jump in the golf cart!) and chase the poor man down.
My daughter is a little too old to show that unabashed delight now, but we are getting to relive it through my niece and nephew!
This post really took me back to a much more carefree time. I didn’t always get to buy anything though because I wanted to save my quarter allowance to go to the “picture show” on Saturday for 15 cents and buy a candy AND a coke with the leftover dime…LOL
😉 Brown-Eyes
SOOOOO what kind of icecream did you get us????? I LOVE ICECREAM!
Yes…our ice cream man comes every Sunday between 2-4 we love him…we can here him from the other road and we go running for change…it’s alot for fun for the kiddos.
The ice cream man comes to our neighborhood nearly every day. He even comes during the nice days over the winter. He must do well here. 🙂
Hi Rhoda
We have the ice cream man here…love hearing his bell!
Hi Rhoda 🙂
We have an ice cream man in our neighborhood too. The kids love it! I didn’t grow up with one, so it’s neat to have it now.
I loved the pictures from that shopping trip you took with Judy, especially the food 😉
I can’t wait to see what you do with your guest bedroom. Great inspiration piece!
hugs,
rue
We have one too but he’s sort of scary so my kids have never bought ice cream from him. haha!
When they see him, though, they get all excited (hearing the music) and then I get them a cone from inside the house. So they’re not too deprived…
We have an ice cream truck that comes through our neighborhood. I liked the one that we had when I was a child better though because they had soft served ice cream. The ice cream truck is a great childhood memory for any child.
I love to see the ice cream trucks around town. And I especially enjoy watching the faces of the children as they run to buy a sweet treat.
A few years ago, in a neighboring town, a man was arrested because he shot the tires out of the ice cream truck. His reason? He got tired of hearing the same song over and over and over every day when he got home from work. Where did it get him? In jail. With a fine. The ice cream truck people decided to do a variety of songs that would change from time to time. Don’t know if that made the man happy when he got home from jail.
~Adrienne~
We still have an ice cream truck…my kids love it still. They are 12 and 17 – if they’re home they will get something even when we have ice cream treats in the freezer. Our ‘truck’is a teeny tiny little thing though…a little bigger than a SmartCar! LOL
When we first moved into our neighborhood and saw an ice cream man come down our street for the first time, we were so excited! We made a bee-line for it and bought the kids some treats. They were thrilled.
Then the ice cream truck came back the next day…and the next day…and then another one started coming earlier in the day, and we had two making the rounds. And–you guessed it–every single time the kids heard the music, the begging and pleading would begin.
Clearly, we were known as suckers for ice cream on our block. Word had gotten out.
When a third, broken-down ice cream truck started making the rounds, I couldn’t take the daily begging any more.
Now I keep the ice cream well stocked in the freezer to avoid paying $3.95 for one popsicle. I’m still trying to convince the kids that they’re just as good coming from out kitchen as the ones from the truck, tho. Ha. -Julia 🙂
YES we do (and I too love banana popsicles)……. it makes me think of when I was little, he always came after dinner and we’d run like heck so he would stop for us. Now Mr. Ice Cream Man comes in the afternoon, late afternoon, needless to say he does not get much business ~ too close to dinnertime.
I was just reading an article in the paper about Drive In Movies, remember those, we loved them as kids too.
Have a great week-end,
Kathy 🙂
Yes, I do remember, Rhoda! Oh how I loved running to the truck to get a treat when I would visit my cousin in the city (we lived in the country). I also remember getting ice cream sandwiches and Nutty Buddies at the store and at the picture show. What sweet memories!
My mother liked the banana popsickles, too, Rhoda, and I liked the strawberry. Back then I loved everything pink from the pink rose on a birthday cake to the pink cabbage roses on my wallpaper to its coordinating pink phone I had to beg and beg Santa for one Christmas. But that musical sound from the “Pinky Dinky” man was just the best!
I’m glad to see he’s alive and well in Birmingham! Thanks for sharing…
Sheila
We had an ice cream truck come by when I was a child. We would say the “Good Humor” man is coming. It was Good Humor ice cream. We have trucks now too on our street. They come after school and in the early evening (dessert time). On the weekends they come by several times a day. I like hearing the music, too.
We have a funny memory of the ice cream man at our house. When the kids were younger we attended a big 4th of July hoopla and the ice cream man came around and parked nearby. Just as my kids approached to order ice cream he drove off. I wish we’d had a video camera because it was hilarious and we still laugh about it to this day.
No ice cream man in my neighborhood, but there was when I was a little girl. I loved orange push-ups.