Our Good Humor man was named Frank and every time we would hear him come down the street we’d run out and he would give us free ice cream if we filled up a couple of glass milk bottles with ice water for him so he could stick it inside his ice cream freezer! 🤣😂. We also had Mr. Softee ice cream truck that had the soft swirl vanilla chocolate twist ice cream cones! You would get a free iron on transfer for your T-shirt of a big face of Mr. Softee with every ice cream cone! So many things we had as kids that these kids don’t have today! What a shame. I could still taste that ice cream to this day! So many good memories growing up!
Good Humor was the only ice cream truck that visited our suburban New York neighborhood when I was growing up in the 60s and 70s. I can still remember the jingling of the bells at the front of the truck to alert us kids that the truck was nearby. My personal favorites were toasted almond, chocolate eclair and strawberry shortcake bars. That was a great time to be a kid.
We had an ice cream van called Ice Cream Joe that went around the neighborhood when I was a kid. It was painted purple and had an ice cream freezer inside. It played a song. It sold popsicles, ice cream bars and drumsticks. The driver let the kids ride around on the block with it. You still begged your mom for change to buy something even if there was ice cream in the refrigerator.
How I miss the Good Humor truck that once visited our neighborhood every Summer until the 90's. They certainly had a wide variety of frozen treats, that's for sure. 🍧
My favorite ice cream truck song is Turkey in the Straw. I live in Texas and we have lots of Hispanic men riding bikes with ice cream and other spicy snacks. Summer is not the same with out a few visits from those nice guys.
I remember as a kid in the Iowa summers playing out in our neighborhood yards…and we would tease each other…”I think I hear the ice cream truck coming!”…pretending we could hear the ice cream truck bell ringing.
In the NY area there were Bungalow Bar ice cream truck with with a roof design. Us kids had our own jingle. " Bungalow Bar tastes like tar. the more you eat it the sicker you are!" Oh the memories! Mr. Softee was my fave, double vanilla cone with a billon sprinkles.
I grew up in the Bronx in the 50s we lived on Jerome Avenue just off Fordham Road we lived with my grandmother. She had a shotgun apartment there on the first floor back when you didn’t need bars on the windows and the good humor man used to stop on our street and he would bring ice cream up to the street side window of our apartment when I couldn’t make it outside to meet the truck, just an old memory back when people cared a little more
My grandfather was born in 1907. When he was 7 or 8 he got his first ice cream cone at a state fair. He carefully savored the ice cream then went back to the vender and returned the cone. I get the impression that the guy accepted the return and probably resold it.
I was just mentioning the other day that I was surprised to see a Mr Softee truck cross the street while I was on a bus! Not only have I never seen one, but also didn't know that brand was out in California! Another tune on the trucks out in the suburbs was "The Band Played On"!
I do recall Good Humor Ice Cream Trucks...or something like that back in my native DC-MD Metropolitan in the 70's & 80's weekly, worth it. I don't see such so much now but occasionally & they ARE the precursor to food trucks I see LOTS today. 🥳YAY Childhood.
A friend of mine in the 1970s drove one of the old open trucks like at the 5:00 mark. One day a guy with a gun came up to the drivers side to rob him. He promptly jumped out the open side as the truck kept slowly moving down the street with the thief on the running board. Sometime later he found the truck a few blocks away gently bouncing up against a curb.
Ours was Dairy Dan the ice cream man, soft ice cream, then another truck came with the novelty ice cream like nutty buddy, ice cream sandwiches and fudge sickles.
We had three ice cream trucks that came, there were a lot of kids on my block. Mister Softee came late afternoon, Good Humor about seven and then Gil, a private ice cream truck came about eight thirty.
Just had Mr Softee come down the street the other day. Only problem being, I live in the last house on a dead end street. He turns around before he gets to my house. Normally I don't care because I don't normally buy it. But, I would love to get it occasionally.
Fun video - but know what? Old-fashioned ice cream trucks still rove around North Oakland on warm days, and they drive you crazy with their idiotic jingles!!! Even as a teenager in Indiana, I wondered how a human being could listen to Pop Goes the Weasel eight hours a day and not become a serial killer
I remember the GH man coming down our street. 35₵ for an ice cream Barr. a ”fruit 2 stick” was cheaper. I also remember street vendors selling ”I lemon Italian ices" in paper cups.
Our Good Humor man was named Frank and every time we would hear him come down the street we’d run out and he would give us free ice cream if we filled up a couple of glass milk bottles with ice water for him so he could stick it inside his ice cream freezer! 🤣😂.
We also had Mr. Softee ice cream truck that had the soft swirl vanilla chocolate twist ice cream cones! You would get a free iron on transfer for your T-shirt of a big face of Mr. Softee with every ice cream cone!
So many things we had as kids that these kids don’t have today! What a shame.
I could still taste that ice cream to this day! So many good memories growing up!
I'm 71 now. I experienced that most pleasant of Summers...I WAS the Good Humor Man. It was fun.
Good Humor was the only ice cream truck that visited our suburban New York neighborhood when I was growing up in the 60s and 70s. I can still remember the jingling of the bells at the front of the truck to alert us kids that the truck was nearby. My personal favorites were toasted almond, chocolate eclair and strawberry shortcake bars. That was a great time to be a kid.
We had an ice cream van called Ice Cream Joe that went around the neighborhood when I was a kid. It was painted purple and had an ice cream freezer inside. It played a song. It sold popsicles, ice cream bars and drumsticks. The driver let the kids ride around on the block with it. You still begged your mom for change to buy something even if there was ice cream in the refrigerator.
I remember the Ford F-1 Good Humor trucks in the 1960s and Mister Softie. This video brought back good memories!
Many skinned knees, chasin after the Good Humor man.
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How I miss the Good Humor truck that once visited our neighborhood every Summer until the 90's.
They certainly had a wide variety of frozen treats, that's for sure. 🍧
My favorite ice cream truck song is Turkey in the Straw. I live in Texas and we have lots of Hispanic men riding bikes with ice cream and other spicy snacks. Summer is not the same with out a few visits from those nice guys.
I'm 61 and I still run after the Mister Softee truck.
Wow! I'm sicerely happy for you!
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I'm 62 and can barely walk!
@@JohnShinn6078 ,it's more like a jog. If I had to, I would throw myself in front of the truck to stop him.
@@gregggoss2210 Be careful, don't fall and skin yer knees like I used to! 😭
@@JohnShinn6078, I'll just dig into my retro first aid kit and spray some Bactine on it.
@@JohnShinn6078 You should get a dog to chase it for you!
I wish to thank you for sharing this awesome Historical Ice Cream and Ice Cream trucks video with me .
I remember as a kid in the Iowa summers playing out in our neighborhood yards…and we would tease each other…”I think I hear the ice cream truck coming!”…pretending we could hear the ice cream truck bell ringing.
In the NY area there were Bungalow Bar ice cream truck with with a roof design. Us kids had our own jingle. " Bungalow Bar tastes like tar. the more you eat it the sicker you are!" Oh the memories! Mr. Softee was my fave, double vanilla cone with a billon sprinkles.
My face lit up like that at age 5 with an ice cream cone in my hand...great picture on the front page of the Charleston newspaper...
Nice
It sounds good. I was raised in a farming community. We made are own ice cream. You got a good workout cracking that handle on the churn
I grew up in the Bronx in the 50s we lived on Jerome Avenue just off Fordham Road we lived with my grandmother. She had a shotgun apartment there on the first floor back when you didn’t need bars on the windows and the good humor man used to stop on our street and he would bring ice cream up to the street side window of our apartment when I couldn’t make it outside to meet the truck, just an old memory back when people cared a little more
My grandfather was born in 1907. When he was 7 or 8 he got his first ice cream cone at a state fair. He carefully savored the ice cream then went back to the vender and returned the cone. I get the impression that the guy accepted the return and probably resold it.
I was just mentioning the other day that I was surprised to see a Mr Softee truck cross the street while I was on a bus! Not only have I never seen one, but also didn't know that brand was out in California! Another tune on the trucks out in the suburbs was "The Band Played On"!
We had Merrymobile ice cream trucks in the 50s and 60s in Memphis.
I do recall Good Humor Ice Cream Trucks...or something like that back in my native DC-MD Metropolitan in the 70's & 80's weekly, worth it.
I don't see such so much now but occasionally & they ARE the precursor to food trucks I see LOTS today.
🥳YAY Childhood.
The ice cream man comes vy 2-3 times a day here. Glad they do.
A friend of mine in the 1970s drove one of the old open trucks like at the 5:00 mark. One day a guy with a gun came up to the drivers side to rob him. He promptly jumped out the open side as the truck kept slowly moving down the street with the thief on the running board. Sometime later he found the truck a few blocks away gently bouncing up against a curb.
Ours was Dairy Dan the ice cream man, soft ice cream, then another truck came with the novelty ice cream like nutty buddy, ice cream sandwiches and fudge sickles.
Mr.Softee would roll through my neighborhood sometimes twice a day.
We had three ice cream trucks that came, there were a lot of kids on my block. Mister Softee came late afternoon, Good Humor about seven and then Gil, a private ice cream truck came about eight thirty.
Just had Mr Softee come down the street the other day.
Only problem being, I live in the last house on a dead end street. He turns around before he gets to my house. Normally I don't care because I don't normally buy it. But, I would love to get it occasionally.
It's a sad day when you realize that you have become too old to chase after the ice cream truck.
They were so much fun. We would chase the truck when we'd forget your money. Kids don't have the fun we used to have😢
"Grandpa, I hear the ice cream truck" we would say when the GH truck came by.
He would always get the coconut and treat us for fetching his.
Good Humor started in Youngstown,Ohio.
Fun video - but know what? Old-fashioned ice cream trucks still rove around North Oakland on warm days, and they drive you crazy with their idiotic jingles!!! Even as a teenager in Indiana, I wondered how a human being could listen to Pop Goes the Weasel eight hours a day and not become a serial killer
You didn’t mention that Martha Washington made ice cream too, and her favorite was OYSTER ICE CREAM! Yuck
I don't see anything on the 90s
Why does he sound like remy from ratatouille.
I remember the GH man coming down our street. 35₵ for an ice cream Barr. a ”fruit 2 stick” was cheaper. I also remember street vendors selling ”I lemon Italian ices" in paper cups.
Bongalo. Bar. Icecream. Trucks. Pidepiper. Mr. Sorry. Good humer. Just. Some. The. Best. Mr. Softy