The Ice Cream Truck

RKCNDYRKCNDY Seattle, WA Posts: 31,013
edited April 2013 in All Encompassing Trip
So it finally hit over 60* for the first time since October last year...and the ice cream truck is making it's rounds right now. :lol:

Did you have one drive around when you were a kid?

Mine was like this one:
jeepanddriver.jpg

but it was a 70s DJ,it said 'Joe's' on the side in orange, and it blared 'The Entertainer'. Always got either the red/white/blue popsicle or a fudgesicle. What did you get? (I want to run after the ice cream truck right now).
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  • dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam NINUNINOPRO Posts: 139,136
    thats awesome
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  • SatansFutonSatansFuton Posts: 5,399
    We had one, not a jeep like that, more like this...

    C_Ice_Cream_Truck.jpg

    He didn't come by regularly though. Seems like 1-2 times a summer we'd see him. I guess we weren't one of his usual stops or something, and he'd just cruise by if he was looking for customers. No skin off our ass though, we had several stores within a stones throw that had ice cream.
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  • shepshep Houston Posts: 5,644
    when I was a kid, all we hand were the dickee dee's guys:

    $T2eC16N,!zoE9s5nd73zBRd,lYN7%29w~~48_2.JPG

    they used to have to pedal all that ice cream around...

    and St. John's was not a flat place.... I lived at the top of a massive hill... always used to feel so bad for the guy.... we worked his damn ass off to sell those $2 ice creams...

    what I wouldn't kill for a phantom right now though...
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  • hedonisthedonist standing on the edge of forever Posts: 24,524
    Did it come replete with the guy up there?

    (he looks like Daniel Negreanu, for anyone who follows poker)

    I just remember the heat as a kid - LA style - and hearing that singsongsound of the truck and reacting like one of Pavlov's fucking dogs.

    "here's my quarter, gimme!"
  • RKCNDYRKCNDY Seattle, WA Posts: 31,013
    norm wrote:

    He sure did like working it in the orange leather didn't he? :lol:

    (I totally wanted to be an ice cream truck driver...just so I could stop and when the kids got close drive away and watch them run after me... :lol: )
    The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

    - Christopher McCandless
  • QuarterToTenQuarterToTen Cincinnati, Ohio Posts: 3,626
    Wish these were still around.

    :P

    mister_softee.jpg
    Nice shirt.
  • BLACK35BLACK35 Hanover, Ontario Posts: 22,438
    shep wrote:
    when I was a kid, all we hand were the dickee dee's guys:

    $T2eC16N,!zoE9s5nd73zBRd,lYN7%29w~~48_2.JPG

    they used to have to pedal all that ice cream around...

    and St. John's was not a flat place.... I lived at the top of a massive hill... always used to feel so bad for the guy.... we worked his damn ass off to sell those $2 ice creams...

    what I wouldn't kill for a phantom right now though...

    I remember these guys.
    There is one guy in town here who bought one of these bikes last summer for his 15 yr old kid to start selling ice cream.....I would have bought one off him, but never saw the kid
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  • JK_LivinJK_Livin South Jersey Posts: 7,364
    Wish these were still around.

    :P

    mister_softee.jpg

    They are.
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  • AnnafalkAnnafalk Sweden Posts: 4,004
    These ice cream trucks are hilarious :D
  • DissidentmanDissidentman Posts: 15,378
    famous round these parts:

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  • I'm a TruckI'm a Truck Milwaukee Posts: 3,508
    (Insert clever Truck pun)

    81 loves em'.
  • Get_RightGet_Right Posts: 12,440
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  • Wma31394Wma31394 Posts: 3,045
    ...Keep your kids away from them!!!...Not since most of the dudes look creepy and could show up on a local list of perps under an alias...There is too much red die 5 and high fructose corn syrup in ice cream these days!!.. :roll: :roll:
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  • 8181 Needing a ride to Forest Hills and a ounce of weed. Please inquire within. Thanks. Or not. Posts: 58,276
    yes....but rarely bought anything.
    81 is now off the air

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  • 8181 Needing a ride to Forest Hills and a ounce of weed. Please inquire within. Thanks. Or not. Posts: 58,276
    (Insert clever Truck pun)

    81 loves em'.


    you brining me ice cream tonight? excellent.
    81 is now off the air

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  • QuarterToTenQuarterToTen Cincinnati, Ohio Posts: 3,626
    JK_Livin wrote:
    Wish these were still around.

    :P

    mister_softee.jpg

    They are.

    Unfortunately, I haven't seen one in the Cincinnati area for years and years.

    Best. Soft. Serve. Ever.
    Nice shirt.
  • kw18kw18 Posts: 3,909
    I love ice cream trucks! On my street in the summer, I get a truck about once a day and several guys with the little carts come by.

    Gonna miss those chimes. :(
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  • JK_LivinJK_Livin South Jersey Posts: 7,364
    JK_Livin wrote:
    Wish these were still around.

    :P

    mister_softee.jpg

    They are.

    Unfortunately, I haven't seen one in the Cincinnati area for years and years.

    Best. Soft. Serve. Ever.

    That's sad to here. We get one every weekend now that's it's nice again.
    Alright, alright, alright!
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  • chadwickchadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    shep wrote:
    when I was a kid, all we hand were the dickee dee's guys:

    $T2eC16N,!zoE9s5nd73zBRd,lYN7%29w~~48_2.JPG

    they used to have to pedal all that ice cream around...

    and St. John's was not a flat place.... I lived at the top of a massive hill... always used to feel so bad for the guy.... we worked his damn ass off to sell those $2 ice creams...

    what I wouldn't kill for a phantom right now though...
    as a kid my dad peddled a ice cream cart, it was his summer job I guess, he done it several summers. he was robbed & beaten up more times than you could shake a stick at. finally he learned to carry a metal pipe club thing. also he learned to slam a guy's hand in the freezer with the heavy lid thing when they tried stealing ice cream from (him) some kid tryin to earn a buck.
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  • DissidentmanDissidentman Posts: 15,378
    I'm your ice cream man baby, stop me when I'm passin' by
    See now all my flavors are guaranteed to satisfy...
  • RKCNDYRKCNDY Seattle, WA Posts: 31,013
    kw18 wrote:
    I love ice cream trucks! On my street in the summer, I get a truck about once a day and several guys with the little carts come by.

    Gonna miss those chimes. :(

    they might have just as cool trucks at your new place! :D
    The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

    - Christopher McCandless
  • chadwickchadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    I'm your ice cream man baby, stop me when I'm passin' by
    See now all my flavors are guaranteed to satisfy...
    :lol:
    http://youtu.be/VeUzcoAnXEA

    what the...big gay ice cream truck
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."

    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • shepshep Houston Posts: 5,644
    chadwick wrote:
    shep wrote:
    when I was a kid, all we hand were the dickee dee's guys:

    $T2eC16N,!zoE9s5nd73zBRd,lYN7%29w~~48_2.JPG

    they used to have to pedal all that ice cream around...

    and St. John's was not a flat place.... I lived at the top of a massive hill... always used to feel so bad for the guy.... we worked his damn ass off to sell those $2 ice creams...

    what I wouldn't kill for a phantom right now though...
    as a kid my dad peddled a ice cream cart, it was his summer job I guess, he done it several summers. he was robbed & beaten up more times than you could shake a stick at. finally he learned to carry a metal pipe club thing. also he learned to slam a guy's hand in the freezer with the heavy lid thing when they tried stealing ice cream from (him) some kid tryin to earn a buck.

    that's sad...

    you're destroying childhood memories for me right now painting that picture... :lol:

    further proof I grew up in a small town I guess...
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  • DissidentmanDissidentman Posts: 15,378
    chadwick wrote:
    I'm your ice cream man baby, stop me when I'm passin' by
    See now all my flavors are guaranteed to satisfy...
    :lol:
    http://youtu.be/VeUzcoAnXEA

    what the...big gay ice cream truck


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  • hedonisthedonist standing on the edge of forever Posts: 24,524
    chadwick wrote:
    I'm your ice cream man baby, stop me when I'm passin' by
    See now all my flavors are guaranteed to satisfy...
    :lol:
    http://youtu.be/VeUzcoAnXEA

    what the...big gay ice cream truck


    220px-David_Lee_Roth_Smashbox_2008.jpg
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  • rick1zoo2rick1zoo2 between a rock and a dumb place Posts: 12,632
    truck just pulled into the car dealership accross the street
  • rick1zoo2rick1zoo2 between a rock and a dumb place Posts: 12,632
    chadwick wrote:
    I'm your ice cream man baby, stop me when I'm passin' by
    See now all my flavors are guaranteed to satisfy...
    :lol:
    http://youtu.be/VeUzcoAnXEA

    what the...big gay ice cream truck


    220px-David_Lee_Roth_Smashbox_2008.jpg


    now that is a kick-ass song
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