1970s ice cream truck

In the 1970s, thousands of retirees from the North East started migrating to Florida for warmer weather and stress-free living. Developers quickly realized the opportunity and started building retirement communities such as Century Village in Palm Beach. Photographer Flip Schulke, who was commissioned by EPA to document the rise of retirement communities in Florida in the mid-1970s, captured the active lives of retirees in West Palm Beach, Miami and Key West...

"I’ll have the ______________!" This was the actual signage from an ice cream truck from years ago. This came up for sale on eBay recently. A real blast from summers past.

When I was a kid I thought that driving an ice cream truck would be such a "cool" job. I mean, after all, to us kids, and some adults, he was the most popular guy on the block. We would hear the ringing of his bell or the sound of that ice cream truck music playing from blocks away. Every kid playing out in their front yards would run inside to ask for some ice cream money. How much do you remember paying for a popsicle, bar or cone? I remember it being a dime, at one point in my life. If I…

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Yes, spring is basically here and summer will soon follow which will bring back those ice cream trucks. We have a couple of them here in Westwood. I’m diabetic, so I can never get any ice cream, bu…

Summer finally arrived here a couple of weeks ago. No, I didn’t pay any attention to the exact date on the calendar. I knew it was summer because I heard the first Ice Cream Truck of the season! It…

Lance buying a nickle baggy. Back in 1950 when "street pushers" sold ice cream, not drugs. In Fresno, California. (scanned negative) (photo taken by Andrew L. Nix)