We All Scream For Ice Cream! Remember These In Your Neighborhood?

I see ice cream trucks now rolling around my neighborhood.  A sort of beat up white van with the driver ringing the bell in hopes the kids will grab money from mom and run out and buy a drumstick or ice cream sandwich.  Back when I was a kid we had two very different ice cream trucks that roamed our neighborhood.

There was the Merrymobile, a vintage ice cream truck that was in operation from the mid 1950's until the early 1970's with a franchise here in Evansville.  These odd contraptions were highly identifiable when the hot your block and you could hear their music from blocks away.

With the driver encircled by a band of coolers, you'd order and he'd reach into a frozen bin and pull out a Mug-o-Malt or a drumstick plus many other types of ice cream bars.

Then, there was the big green truck. It was the neighborhood connection for soft serve in a cone. Vanilla, chocolate, dipped, not dipped, etc. This is truck who's bell I usually waited for.  The big green soft serve machine.

These marvelous vehicles and their product faded away into oblivion in the late 1970's.  There are cities, like Memphis for instance, that still have Merrymobiles out on the streets daily.  That city was where the Merrymobile was created.  There's more about that on this Facebook page.  Meanwhile a great video from days gone by.

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