Icecream Vans / Sellers

Phill_d · Post by **Phill_d** » Sat 09 Feb, 2008 11:17 pm

cnosni wrote: Phill_d wrote: OOPS! Were's Mary Whitehouse gone lol??? For a 69,ooops a 99. I can sense a few slapped wrists in the morning.. tut tut

wiggy · Post by **wiggy** » Sun 10 Feb, 2008 4:42 pm

Croggy wrote: Yep, I remember the Italian guy and the 'proper' ice cream served with a scoop. Can't think what the tune was though. SUNNY BOY??

wiggy · Post by **wiggy** » Sun 10 Feb, 2008 4:46 pm

Rich87 wrote: Someone on here must know ''Tony's Ices''. He's a big guy, skin head, wears thick gold chains an bracelets, and when you go for an ice-cream, no matter how old you are, 10, 20, 30, as he passes you it he shoves it in your face so u get covered in ice cream lol!! He used to go around burmantofts I REMEMBER TONYS ICES BACK IN THE 70S,IF YOU SENT ONE OF THE ELDER GIRLS TO BUY IT FOR YOU,HE GAVE YOU A LOT MORE,BUT THE TONY I KNEW HAD 70S STYLE LONG HAIR.THEN THERE WAS SANDY'S ICES,HER HUSBAND GUILLERIOS AND HIS BROTHER DINARDO,WHO WENT BACK TO ITALY.

Brandy · Post by **Brandy** » Sun 10 Feb, 2008 4:50 pm

Croggy wrote: Yep, I remember the Italian guy and the 'proper' ice cream served with a scoop. Can't think what the tune was though. was this it by any chance http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/06/i ... htmlps/its the lips stained blue tune i think!!

Si · Post by Si » Mon 11 Feb, 2008 9:13 am

Our ice cream van in Pudsey in the 60s was Mr Softee. He played Popeye The Sailor Man. When we moved to near Dawson's Corner, the van was a Rossi's (Bradford, I think) and he played Beautiful Dreamer. Early 70s, he did a plastic cone full of ice cream with a round chewing gum in the bottom called a Screwball.

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Mon 11 Feb, 2008 9:24 am

I live in North Leeds and remember loads of different ice creams vans. The most vivid one has to be of a big hard tatooed guy who'd had a heart attack and couldnt stop work for very long. quite a generous guy.Also remember another Italian guy who used to serve hot dogs by getting half a frenck stick, boring the middle out and then sliding a sausage down it!He used to play greensleeves, but also occasionaly used to play "The Entertainer" (the tune from the Felix cat food adverts!)

Croggy · Post by **Croggy** » Mon 11 Feb, 2008 12:07 pm

Quote: a plastic cone full of ice cream with a round chewing gum in the bottom called a Screwball. They still do them - some also still do 'specials' - an ice cream cone with a lolly stuck in.

Reginal Perrin · Post by **Reginal Perrin** » Mon 11 Feb, 2008 12:08 pm

I'm from Rothwell and Longo's was the main whippy monger. I recall being ever so dissappointed if the Wall's guy came down the street as he only had those nasty yellow brisks which were awful.Longo pretended to be an Italian but he was from Hunslet and worked at the Copper Works.Two ball screwballs were the ultimate or sherbert overed ice cream.I always lopved Lumbs Dairy ont he way to Nermillerdam in Wakefield for a Sunday stroll.Is it just me but as a kid didn't Ice Cream Man seem like a proper job (especially Walls as they had a yellow overall) as opposed ot the opportunistic tax avoiders we have now.

Croggy · Post by **Croggy** » Mon 11 Feb, 2008 12:18 pm

Lol - my son, who is 8, is obsessed with icecream vans (or was last 'summer' and I expect it will be the same this season. His ambition is to be an Icecream man!

Si · Post by Si » Mon 11 Feb, 2008 12:19 pm

My favourite was an ice cream oyster, but I only got one as a special treat. I remember an ice cream place by the bus station in the 60s where the cones were a kind of hard brown biscuit (like a Cornetto) as opposed to the usual type. They were delicious!