Good Humor Ice Cream Trucks - Life in America
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I was always amazed the Good Humor man could reach far back into the freezer and pick out the exact treat you asked for. Those were the best of times.
Back when you and your friends took a break from playing in someone's back yard. Actually using your imagination to come up with different things to do. When ''playing'' was outside. Not like today. Anyone born after 1970 will never know how it was in our day But it's so cool for those of us that are old enough to remember. No one can take that away from us.
@@chaosdemonwolf1 I couldn't have said it better my friend!👍 Those were the days, life was less complicated and generally very happy for most Americans. Undoubtedly the best time in history to be a child growing up, especially for those of us who were fortunate enough to grow up in the suburbs of middle class America! 😁 You're absolutely right, nobody can take those incredible memories away from us!
@@chaosdemonwolf1 I was born in 2000 and know what it was like. For the first few years of my life, there were no smartphones, people hung out.
Yessss he could. Psychic huh lol
Why so amazed?? Your Dad did the same thing for me! He’d reach far back, and give me the treat I requested depending on how hard I blew him!
Late 60s the Good Humor truck broke down on my street. I remember the driver giving us all a free ice cream. My favorite was the chocolate eclair which used to have a solid chocolate core.
Lol, what a treat!
That chocolate éclair was the CADILLAC of the line-up! 👍😊👍
….that was every 1960’s child’s fantasy!
Wow!! I would have loved that day too! That’s every kids dream. My Grandfather grew up with Tom Carvelos, aka Carvel ice cream. They were great friends. I was allowed to pick out anything I wanted any time. I only did once tho. Now I wish I did it often! Ha! Tom Carvels refrigerators broke down too. He sold the ice cream fast for half price. The ppl said they liked the custard style better. Hence, the custard style was born after he had ppl make refrigerators keep the ice cream at a certain temperature. 👏👏
Yup
Living on Long Island in the 70s, I couldn’t wait for the Good Humor truck to come around. The strawberry shortcake ice cream was my favorite.
I totally agree on the strawberry shortcake ... my grandmother loved those and my other grandmother liked the drumsticks! Good memory
North Babylon here.Mister Softee and Good Humor usually 1 in the afternoon and one in the evening.Life was good in those days
Lived in both Amityville and Lindenhurst in the late 50’s and early 60’s. I remember how much we enjoyed the Good Humor truck rolling through the neighborhood. The inside of that freezer compartment was such a mystery. It always had what you wanted.
We had the same in Jersey! No Hudson Park. Almond crunch is mine!
Now days unfortunately these days are gone.
I remember these so well! Fuller Brush Man and Avon lady too!
Ditto in the city of Lakewood, next to Long Beach, LA County, plus Kirby vacuums. My girlfriend in high school and adult women in our neighborhoods sold Avon. I also recall someone selling seeds from the American Seed Company door-to-door.
I still have a Fuller brush lint brush to this day!
My favorite was the bread truck with the great smell plus donuts!
@@annek1226 Wow!
@@389383 Paraphrasing Robert Duvall, Apocalypse Now (1979), I love the smell of donuts in the morning!
"Here comes the Ice Cream Man!" We could hear the jingling bells two blocks away! Mom would dig out $.30 for my sister and I and we'd almost break the screen door running for the street where a crowd of kids were already waiting!
I love this channel. All the recollections from my childhood are just flooding in. So sorry this millennial generation will never experience that kind of society. I grew up in the 50's so life was still pretty good.
Unless you were black or LGBTQ.
@@TrainsFerriesFeet push that narrative shill. White people didn't invent slavery, but they did invent abolishing it.
Even in the 70s when I grew up many of these things were still around. I can still hear the sound of the Good Humor truck's bells jingling (ring ring, ring ring) in my head as I watched this video.
@@TrainsFerriesFeet SHUT UP, IDIOT!!!!! 😠😠😠😠😠
@@dariowiter3078 Struck a nerve, huh?
The highlight of summer was the Good Humor man coming down the street.
My Dad was a bartender part time and a guy who worked for Good Humor owed him money and my Dad worked deal for free ice cream to pay off the debt .
@@speedracer1945 Ha! That's too funny.
I can remember Pat the ice cream man driving the Good Humor truck into our neighborhood in the early 1970s. 25 kids running a race with two quarters in their hands waiting to get their ice cream. Chocolate fudge cake was my favorite. It had a real chocolate bar center. Today Good Humor ice cream is nothing like it used to be after the accountants and lawyers stepped in to manage.
Oh man!Those chocolate centers were great!Wish I could get one now.
Forgot about them loved the chocolate center
@@deborahpellerito6117 Now I really want one and they don't make them anymore.Lol
@@emeyer6963 Oh no!!!
We had Pat the ice cream man in West Los Angeles in the early 60's. This is where we got our best running times up and down the hill to get to his truck before he turned around at the end of the street. By seventh grade I could out run the boys : )
I really miss the Good Humor ice cream trucks. Good memories of earlier times. Loved the strawberry shortcake bar !
Chocolate eclaur also
I am 62 and live in germany and l really like this series and to read the comments . Somehow l think life was better in our youth
Yep, being a “grown-up” ain’t as much fun as we all thought when we were young. When I was a kid, I could not wait for the 21st Century, now I just want to go back 50 years.
@@cameraman655 Yes..
Depends, many times when you make that comment today, someone comes along and adds the caveat "If you were white"
@@charles-y2z6c Yeah the “woke, Cancel Culture” fascists do have that habit.
62 here too!! It was better,I thank God for letting me grow up in the best times on this earth !!!
I remember these vey well and was a regular customer during 1950's summers in the Los Angeles area. We also had neighborhood delivery by a bakery company called Helms.
Ditto in the city of Lakewood.
I think that Helm's bakery is a "must do" story for this channel to cover.
I remember in altadena in early sixties and of course Helm's bakery! Fond memories when you heard the music coming down the street.🎶🎵🎹😁
And Adorh Farms milk got delivered in glass bottles to your front or side door! I remember the Helms Bakery truck coming down our street or an ice cream truck with rainbow colored “Big Stick” popsicles....one of my favs, plus “Sidewalk Sundaes” and 50-50 bars.
Me too. Here's a funny story the Helms man was coming. We stopped him tried to pay with a fair coupon he said haha and left
We look back fondly about the 'good old days' -- Not that there weren't problems; there were. But overall people seemed a little kinder, kids were allowed to be kids - BUT - they also knew to help around the house, get a job babysitting or delivering the newspaper. Neighbors were more inclined to watch out for one another. And even when money was tight and where I grew up, money was always in short supply no matter how much or how hard we worked; there were times we we could indulge in a little splurge, like a nickle scoop of ice cream at Thrifty Drug store or a ten cents to buy a Good Humor ice cream bar.
Amazing isn't it? Now it's too common for a kid of 9 or 10 to demand the latest iPhone or they think their life is ruined --- Yet back then? Ten cents bought the simple joy of an ice cream bar on a hot summer day and we thought we were the luckiest kid in the world.
Agree. I started working at age 10. I had a paper route, mowed the lawn, washed dishes, folded laundry, had a lemonade stand, and collected recyclables.
@@photonotavailable7936 And it taught us about working for what we wanted -- Also chipping in to help with bills and being responsible, too!
@@gulfgypsy I know one thing, those experiences gave me a strong work ethic and careers that totaled 59 years.
I grew up in SoCal. The Award Winning ice cream from Thrifty Drug was the best and still 5 cents a scope in the 70’s. The first place I wanted to go to after a 5 week trip around Europe in 1977 was to Thrifty’s for an Ice Cream!
@@samiam619 Ditto. In Lakewood, Thrifty Drug was connected to Ralphs Market at the intersection of Paramount and Del Amo Boulevards.
I love this channel. Brings back great memories of my childhood. Thank you for creating this channel.
These are wonderful retrospectives told in a wonderful manner. There's so many companies and services that we have forgotten about that made our lives rich and fun and helped our dreams come true. Companies that weren't mega corporations but we're companies where we knew who worked there and we trusted them and they did their best to do their best for us.
This takes me back to the 60s when many of the old refrigerated trucks were disappearing. I loved it when the GH man would open that freezer door I was standing next to on a hot summer day and feel the cool air as he handed me my Bomb Pop jr, Ice cream sandwiches and big dippers.
Loved that cool breeze and it's almost like you got a sniff of the cold paper wrappers mixed with ice smell. I always thought they had the best job in the world.
@@thebewitchinghour831 yes. Add in the little push button coin counter and it was everything!
When I was a kid I thought the 2 coolest jobs to have were the Good Humor man and the guy with the local Sabrett Hot Dog Cart.
Or a candy store operator. My great great aunt operated one. She always sent a 5 lb box at Christmas
Mr softee ice cream 🍦😋 was good too !
In the 60's my baby sister (~4yo) would hear the music from the truck and start screaming "the ice cream cone!!!". We would give her a few coins so she could buy a cold treat.
Me too. Lol one time my Dad said if I give you all the change in my pocket will u stop bugging me for a week I said yes and I didn't
They had the cleanest trucks in the biz. The freezer compartment was chilled with dry ice. No loud compressor.
They were always spotless.
I still remember the sound the freezer doors made when they closed!
I remember well the Good Humor trucks of the 1950s with the small access door in the back, the row of bells, the uniformed attendant and the chrome change dispenser on his belt. That was real personalized service back then, just like home milk delivery in insulated porch boxes and Charles Chips home delivery. Now you're lucky if you can find an employee when you're inside a grocery store.
Yes indeed, I found the chrome change dispenser on his belt fascinating.
I miss what America used to be.
@@philipcox5041 Yup, ditto.
Seems like every occupation had a uniform gas station attendant taxi driver and remember when nurses looked like nurses all white with the nurse hat now I don’t know seemed even a menial worker looked professional and acted the part
@@danielmorgan4899 People in general looked professional.
I remember hearing that jingle and running down my street hill for that creamy frozen treat.
My favorite? The orange sherbet push up.
Push up drumstick orange dreamsickle and chocolate eclairs
I was never a big fan of good humor man ... I was a Mr Softy boy .. loved my Mr Softy ❤
Growing up in Brooklyn I never saw a Good Humor truck unless we went to visit family in New Jersey. We had Mr Softy. Heaven on wheels
KM I grew up in the 50's and 60's in St. Louis and I never saw a Good Humor truck. I did however see numerous Mr. Softy trucks. The think about them was that they sold all kinds of ice cream. They made malts and shakes right from the van along with sundaes.
Mr Softee was our regular icecream truck in North Jersey...nothing like a double cone with both vanilla and chocolate!
😍 yes!
@@lissyniña omg I remember an awesome Puerto Rico man use to come by my neighborhood in North New Jersey every evening.! I lived on Montclair ave good time me and my best friend would wait for him..hear the music my cousin use to buy for us!
I fondly remember the days of when my mom would buy me & my brothers ice cream treats from the Good Humor man during the Summers of the 70's.
About 25cents! And the coin belt....they never looked down and always the right change!
While the man was selling ice cream bars out the back of the truck, I would sneak around to the front of the truck, climb up into the cab, pull on the bell cord and ring the row of bells that hung there. For a second or two, I as a four-year-old was as popular and powerful as the Good Humor man!
Yes, and he would have laughed and let you sit there a minute. No one would have called the police or csb on him or your parents. People were kind and had common sense.
In Brooklyn, NY in the ‘50’s we had Good Humor and Bungalow Bar. Both were great. 15 cents for a cone or ice cream bar. BB would take 15 ice cream wrappers in exchange for an ice cream. We scoured the streets finding every wrapper possible, clean them up and get a free ice cream. Those men were so patient with we kiddies. It was a very nice, simpler time.
Very happy memories.
Living in Miami, Fl during the 60s and 70s the Good Humor truck was a blessing on those hot days.
Ditto. North Miami Beach FL
So exciting waiting for the ice cream man. 😄
I remember when I was growing up on the Northeast side of Detroit, Michigan and I would hear the bells of the Good Humor ice cream truck coming down the street.
Then I would want a ice cream cone, ice cream sandwich, or a popsicle or something else.
I was born in 1957.
I grew up on the northeast side of Detroit too. I am only a couple of years younger than you and I would always get a popsicle .I lived near Morang.
David, I was born in 57' too, grew up in the woods/fields of Taylor. The one thing I remember most as how cool that convertible short bed truck looked, and how solid the freezer doors sounded when the driver slammed them shut! I would LOVE to have one now! Also, crazy how the drivers would dress in that all white uniform while working (back then) out in the sticks where we lived! We could hear the bells a long ways away, and it was time to look for loose change under the couch cushions where my dad would sleep after work, lol!
@@bobmackay3414 Bob,
I grew up in the 7 Mile and Schoenherr area.
Which would be the Gratiot and 7 Mile area.
@@davidsquires154
14 and Schoenherr '69-'83 and saw the last of the old trucks. No roof. 5 bells. It was the one vehicle that laughed at the salt of a Michigan winter. Never saw a rusty one.
11 mile and Hoover in Warren. And I was actually a Good Humor man for two summers. Drove a truck just like this one.
I recall in our neighborhood in Lakewood, LA County, the Good Humor man also sold various trading cards, which my friends and I collected. Regarding the ice cream, my faves included the 50/50 (popsicle outside, vanilla ice cream inside), popsicles in various flavors including root beer, fudgesicles, drumsticks, and Eskimo pies. In addition to Good Humor, Helms, Avon, Fuller Brush, Kirby vacuums, American Seed Company, etc., we also had Ray the milkman who drove a red and white refrigerated truck and delivered Carnation milk in glass bottles and other dairy products every morning to our backdoor. Our gate was never locked. My Great Depression/World War II-era parents were usually up so they invited Ray in for a cup of coffee, brewed in an aluminum percolator with a glass top on a four-burner white & black gas stove, and sent him a Christmas card every year. I didn't know it at the time, but looking back I guess he was part of our extended family. My how life has changed. Paraphrasing the science-fiction author Robert A. Heinlein (Stranger in a Strange Land), nowadays I feel like a strange man living in a strange land.
Nice memories for sure..Try as I may, I don't think I could describe just how awesome those days were growing up, to my 23yr old🤷♀️
@@michellerjackson5776 Thank you. Agree. Ditto with my 43-year-old daughter.
That's funny l lived in Lakewood ca. in the 50s and remember every one of those ice cream flavors. My uncle drove a Helms bakery truck then and would stop by our house at the end of the day and let my brothers and l have any donuts we wanted. Miss those days!
@@tonysanada9219 Wow, far out. Lucky you. We lived on Arbor Road between Paramount and Lakewood Boulevards.
Boy you aren’t kidding my parents did the same invited people in for coffee and they came in now if you said would you like some coffee they would look at you like your nuts how times have changed no one takes the time to just say hello
Call on your TH-cam video series a tremendous asset to educating the public about part of America’s history. The very important part of America’s history. Keep up the good work and God bless. I’d love to see these videos used in schools.
The Chocolate Candy Crunch....after eating the ice cream the whole center was the best chocolate candy ever!
Chicago South Side 1966 to 1974. We had both the Fords with the separate freezer section with small access doors and the panel vans. Usually we could only afford the lowest cost cups or treats. Once in awhile we got the fancy eclair bars or similar.
When I was about 5 years old and looking at the decal that the Good Humor man had pasted on the side of his truck, I always thought it was magic when he stuck his hand inside the side of the truck and he always pulled out exactly what I asked for from the menu. And he always had a lot to choose from. 🍫🍦🍨🍧🍫🍨🍧🍦
You had to be well organized with a good memory for your inventory to do the job profitably.
The panel vans with the big door larger storage compartments made the job less dependant on memory.
Good ole days
The toasted almond and chocolate eclair were my favorites…pure, magic memories from my 1950s childhood.
I’m 60 now, but this video brings back A LOT of fond childhood memories! Thanks for sharing 👏🏼
Back in the Summers of the 60's my friends and I couldn't wait for "The Goodie Bar Man" and we could hear the chingle, chingle, chingle bells from his truck. I was alergic to ice cream but I always got the Italian Ice. Everyday he came we were just as excited and happy to see him and get our treats. We played and played all day. Lots of great memories. Thanks for sharing this moment in time.
We called him "The Goodie Bar Man", too. Haven't heard that in years!
I was looking for this comment about the Goody Bar Man. Yes!
I remember c. 1960, we kindergartners were absolutely forbidden on pain of god knows what terrible punishment from even getting close to the Good Humor truck that parked next to the grade school every warm day. It still ticks me off every time I drive by the old school building.
I suffered the same fate. I went to Catholic school, the Nuns really put the fear of God in you.
@@BarnabasCollinsXIII
Oh man I love your username. I remember Dark Shadows well. To this day when I think about Sister Maria Theresa my knuckles hurt. She used the ruler with metal edged to rap me.
@@charles-y2z6c it's true! And now it's sort of weird to realize there is scarcely a teaching nun left alive.
That’s amazing. Same with me back in 1961. I was in 4th grade and the Good Humor man brought his ice cream truck by the school yard during lunch. The Assistant Principal of our elementary school g to threatened to have him arrested. He came around anyway for us to buy ice cream and the guys would run and warn him when the principal came our way. Fun times in 1960’s Chicago.😂
Omg remember chasing this guy down when I was very young.
Oh! This is a childhood treasure!! I love the vintage photos of the vintage trucks!! LUV It!! Thank you so much!! I remember the truck initially coming twice a day (in NY). First in the afternoon and then at about 8-8:30pm. Years later when another ice cream truck came just in the evening. I remember the lights and the bell. Some time after that no more, but then one day saw it at a waterpark in Riverhead, NY.
Grew up in Detroit in the 50s. Good Humor was outrageously expensive and a rare treat. They had high tech popsicle-type treats as well as great ice cream. My favorite was the banana split ice cream bar. At 73 I still miss them.
The sound of the freezer doors opening and closing was the greatest sound ever.
If I’m right the coconut bars were 10 cents each. We would always get ten because we had a large family. The driver would always react in the same way -TEN!!! He’d reach in and give us a box of ten. We’d pay with a dollar and cheerfully run back to the house. Simple things were the best.
My husband kids and I love almost anything good humor. We have two favorite the strawberry bars and the chocolate bars on the stick.The ones with the tiny bits of crunch bits on them.
Even as a kid, I was always so busy looking at things from the past, that I missed many wonderful things that were in the present. Of course that was during times gone by, and I still long for those things that are now the past, but the difference is that there is really not much I am missing that exists today.
The sound the back door made when the driver slammed it shut ( sort of a dull thud and a clank ) is forever etched in my mind . Great video . Peace ,Be Free .
Ice cream trucks, pay phones.... and the only computers to be seen were in sci-fi movies. ( Or maybe at NASA, when some space launch was televised. )
Music was either live, or came from a radio, disk of black plastic, or some form of tape.
TV showed old black and white movies every afternoon after school, but most of your time was spent outside with friends.
Yeah, I think I might see a cure in all of that, for what currently ails us...
i was born in youngstown ohio.. and i still live here.. thanks so much for the amazing videos you upload. i truly enjoy you channel. thank you..
I loved Good Humor as a kid. I'd listen for those ringing bells every summer afternoon and could get to the sidewalk from anywhere in our house in under 5 seconds! 😋👍
Yeah stolldala pumpa u can watch it on utube
We still Love the Good Humor Popsicles and just to see that truck pulling up when you were at the park or something I remember when the ice cream truck would sit right on our street and mom would always let us get our favorite thing she would stand and watch out for us to make sure us kids were safe lol thanks for this fun memories. 😘😊
I lived in trailer parks until I was 13, from 1952 to 1965. Good Humor was the best part of summer for me.
I always liked the Candy Centered Crunch.
They don't make them anymore.
Those were phenomenal.
It's sad.
We had one in New Market late 50s 60s maybe early 70s Mr Price was his name if I recall all ways dressed in White from head to toe
As a kid in Chicago, who doesn't remember the Good Humor trucks with their bells ringing, even when I lived in Arlington Heights, we used to have the ice cream truck coming down the next block from me, it was Jolly Roger ice cream, and you could get soft serve ice cream, in fact I have a really funny story about when the ice cream truck came down the street and my 2nd oldest sister wanted to get ice cream, my father had said no, we have ice cream, my mom was like, come on, let her get ice cream from the truck, he got so pissed he put his fist through the wall, she did ice cream, but my father didn't quite need to go that far. The ice cream bar that is a big favorite from Good Humor is the toasted coconut bar, you can't find those anywhere today, not Walmart, nobody seems to have them so it's a memory from the past. It's a pity that today's kids aren't going to know what life was like in a time like the decades of the forties through the seventies, because the next generation just won't have a clue of anything on account of having a cell phone in your hands and having to REALLY become so PC it's just crazy, but welcome to the world!!!
You said it@James Sawyer- funny story as well
@@michellerjackson5776 A father in a rage ain't so funny.
At least your father hit the wall, I remember being in front of the wall sometimes.
Good times.
Loved the Toasted Almond Bars....
We loved the Good Humor man. Listened for his truck this was Suburbs of California in 1960’s. Just fun going out with all your friends. Then my kids came around in the 70’s and they loved it too.
Good ice cream and great memories! Thanks.
The Good Humor truck and going to the drive-in with my parents are among my happiest childhood memories.
I remember hiding behind some hedges in my moms back yard and yelling wait a minute. He got out three times and finally found me hiding. He said he would tell my mom unless I bought an ice cream from him. Lucky I had a dime in my pocket. Last time I did that.
You choose such great topics, thanks.
Love your histories! Helms Bakery Trucks would be interesting as well.
Agree. Seemed like the Helms Bakery truck drove down our street in Lakewood every day. Paraphrasing Robert Duvall in Apocalypse Now, I loved the smell of fresh baked goods in the morning.
Was just thinking the same thing! Helms Bakery Trucks were part of living in southern California!!
Has to do a story on Helm's.
@@photonotavailable7936 I lived in Torrance. Same, loved Helms.
@@samiam619 Cool. I definitely recall the city of Torrance.
I want to go back to those days again. Be young and watching him come down the street with all my friends.
I loved Good Humor ice cream as a kid, my mom would buy it for me almost every day. I always wondered how all those different varieties could fit inside that little door. About 25 years ago I was walking home from the store and decided to go the back way. As I turned the corner, there in front of me was a 1938-40 Good Humor truck that was in mint, just like new, condition; I couldn't believe my eyes! I just had to stop and take a closer look at it. As I walked around it, I could see that the paint job was perfect, every decal was in its right space, even the jingle bells were glistening in the sun and an Italian Ice wooden spoon tied to the string for the driver to pull on; I almost wanted to cry. Then all of a sudden, I hear this nice soft voice behind me saying, "Sorry son, there's no ice cream in this truck". I quickly turned to see this little old man with this kind face smiling at me. He began to tell me that he owned and operated this truck for nearly 50 years. I asked him if he wanted to sell it, I offered him $15,000.00 without thinking, but he declined. I then offered him $20,000.00 and he looked at me and smile saying, "sorry son, this truck is not for sale". He explained that he sold ice cream in the Neiborhood, and it would break his heart to sell it. He went on to say that he was going to keep it until the day he died and have it donated to a local museum of history to put on display. I remember that day so clearly, I hope that it got the home he wanted, and that it truly deserved.
You really crank these things out.
We had one that would come through our neighborhood. Mom and Dad liked their Toasted Almond. I usually got a Strawberry or Chocolate Eclair.
My mother always made sure we didn't miss the Good Humor man, he got to be good friends with my parents, and when me and my brothers didn't have any money, he would never let us go without an Ice Cream. I will never forget those thick Black framed glasses he wore.
Milk men used to make lady friends
My brother rang the bells on the truck..... pulled the rope so hard the bells fell off.... man' that Good Humor man was made as hell.....
The neighbors’s dog would hear the bells long before the kids and would go sit by the curb. The GHM would stop and the owner would buy him a Dixie cup.
Fond childhood memories. Lovely documentary. Thank you. Wishing everyone reasons to be of good humor in these tense times -- a frozen treat helps. 🍦
I am so glad I was a kid of the 70's and 80's
My parents fled the city and bought a house in Massapequa on Long Island in 1972. Through the rest of the 70s and into the early 80s, we had both the Mister Softee and Good Humor trucks coming through the neighborhood. Mister Softee came by every day and Good Humor only once in a while. I preferred Mr. Softee just because I love soft ice cream. I loved watching the way the driver would twirl the cone or cup while filling it.
From Good Humor, strawberry shortcake bar were my favorite; toasted almond bars we're second choice if he didn't have any strawberry shortcake.
We have an ice cream truck coming through the neighborhood almost every day through the whole year (we're in Florida now; land of eternal summer 😉🥵) but it's just not the same. My grandchildren like it fine but they don't know from "real" ice cream from Good Humor and Mr. Softee trucks 😂.
Thanks for the blast from the past!.😄
we didn't have Good Humor trucks in Albuquerque, we had Ice Cream Trucks roaming the streets, we also had Itsa Italian Ice. shaved ice with lemonade and lemon slices in the ice. they did raspberry and strawberry too, Lemon was my favorite. we always got one if my mom's solf ball team was playing down by the zoo in Tingley Park
If burque didn't have them i guess nobody in 505 had them we missed out thanks good humor
In the early seventies we couldn’t wait for Good humor truck to make it to our street . We would hunt him down to get our ice cream before he ran out getting to our neighborhood. Everyone back then loved the ice cream truck !!
I remember in the late 60s in San Jose the ice cream truck would come around while my dad was painting the house. My dad would reach into his stone colored cotton twill pants and give us kids pennies to buy ice cream. When my dad finally gave us gray money (Nickles and dimes) it was real special. Kids nowadays take those little things for granted.
Manhattan Beach about 1960. I was four years old. My favorite Good Humor Ice Cream Bar was the Sidewalk Sundae! At this time, the trucks didn't use the bells mounted where a rear view mirror would be. The Good Humor Man signaled his approach with a recorded jingle. I was one of the poorest kids in the neighborhood, and rarely had any spending money. One day I flagged down the Good Humor Man... Selected my preference, and held out some coins to pay. COINS?! Nope, they were slugs my older brothers had found at a construction site. The Good Humor Man accepted my slugs, and I still got my ice cream bar.... But before we parted, He said in the nicest way possible, that next time, he would prefer that I pay for the bar with real money. Very kind! I will never forget the kindness he extended to me.
We didn’t have Good Humor - we had Pete. An independent operator - one truck. Pete knew us all and every kid knew Pete. He had his own bells sound that was distinctive - I don’t remember any competition. Westmont NJ. 1950s and 60s. I wish I could remember more.
I used to assist our neighborhood Good Humor man, Steve on his truck in '70. It was a blast.
I remember these trucks growing up in Glendale and Huntington Beach California in the 60's and early 70's.
I always love the coconut ice cream bar. It was like toasted almond but coconut. Yum! miss it big time
Such a wonderful memory!!! I loved the chocolate fudge cake one with a chunk of real chocolate bar in the middle! Yummy!!! 😁
I grew up with Mr Softee, which was awesome! We lived on the 2nd floor, and as soon as we heard that music, I'd run downstairs and catch the money my grandmother tied into a handkerchief. I always got a butterscotch sundae, Gram pineapple and my mother, hot fudge. Good times :-)
By the time I was in high school (70s), we had a Good Humor guy. Nice old man with the white uniform and a small truck. I miss Mr Softee, but the Good Humor eclair was great!
I was an ice cream man for 3 years. Every one loved me 🤠
I drove one of these back around 1970 for a couple of months. Had two different areas on my route. One was a normal residential area, the other was a military base. The military base had special ice cream and popsicles that cost less than the regular ones. Got some amazing coins from the kids who raided their parent's coin collections!
The jingle summoned every kid on the block like magic.
AAHHH,the icecream man.What has happened to our world.Simple pleasures gone,I miss a simpler time.
We kids would be playing in the street when we could hear the little tune from
a block over.
Everybody runs back into the house to tell mom the good-humor man was here ! You were never denied.
Everybody got 50/50's or drumsticks.
Not me. They never lasted.
I used to call my choice 'long-johns' - That long rainbow colored popsickle.
During the summer you might hear him even after you'd gone to bed.
My favorite was the strawberry bar with the crunchies coating. Yum E. 😄
I`m in the video cool, I have the 1952 Chevy Truck that I restored and sold Good Humor Ice Cream for three years. I had a great time with Good Humor Truck and meeting all kinds of people. I had the bells which was really cool. And wearing the complete uniform just made even more cool for the people that wanted to see the truck and get a picture with me . I`m building another truck a 1953 chevy with same charm .
Wow ! I am from Youngstown ,Ohio .. this channel is so neat .
This really took me back to growing up in the suburbs of NYC in the late 60s through mid 70s. I loved the chocolate eclair, strawberry shortcake and toasted almond bars in particular.
We also had the Awrey bakery trucks.
OMG we bought baseball and football cards off those trucks. I am so glad I am in my
Mid 60's. We would walk on the trucks, by candy, other sweets AND I remember the Giant Topps Baseball cards. WOW. Willie McCovey I can see him now.
Childhood summertime always included the Good Humor truck mid-afternoon. Also had "Bungalow Bar." Any Queens, New Yorker kids remember them?
Ice cream trucks as a kid is a wonderful memory
Doesn't anyone remember Mister Softee- Dairy Queen type soft serve? Another one was Dum Dum- popsicles. Every kind of popsicle you could imagine - Seven Up, root beer, pineapple, etc. They came in two pieces. And there was another one that I cannot remember the name of -my favorite- featuring crystalized Italian type ices. They had the shape of an upside down cone. The bottom was a stick and when you finished there was a plastic toy inside of all different fantastical characters. These all came to my Akron area neighborhood in the 60's. My brother and I would be so excited, running as fast as we could, afraid we couldn't stop the trucks in time. What a happy childhood memory
By the 80s, when I was a kid, the ice-cream trucks were all independents. I do, however, remember havin' plenty of store-bought Good Humor (back when a half-gallon _was_ a half gallon!).
A kid in the 1970s I loved Screwballs, Ice Cream Sandwiches, and Nutty Buddies. 🍦 🚐
Can still hear the bells of the Good Humor truck in my neighborhood. The truck usually stopped in the front of my house at the drive way which my mother hated. My driveway became a gathering place for all the neighborhood kids. The Nutty Buddy and Chocolate Eclair were my favorites.
Thank you for sharing 😊
That Change machine on his belt. Classic. Memories. Weston burgers. Howard Johnson’s.
I had a cousin who worked for Good Humors . She drove the truck around suburbs in Pittsburgh
Grew up on LI in the 50s and 60s. Favorite was the cream sickle, toasted almond. And the dual flavored double fruit pops.
We never had Good Humor trucks in my neighborhood...we had a soft serve truck...yum. And they always came right around dinner time so we had to swear to eat whatever Mom made for dinner.
We had a yard in NE Philadelphila with about 40-50 trucks. It was a big business back then.