Comments on: Ding a ling a ling, Ding a ling a ling!

By: Merrill Dubrow

Merrill Dubrow — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:28:37 +0000

Melanie,

Great question - I thought I saw them in Tom Thumb - I will check the next time I am there and let you know.

Merrill

By: Merrill Dubrow

Merrill Dubrow — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:27:56 +0000

Steve,

Maybe I am getting sentimental in my old age - but I think I just shed a tear!

What a great comment!

Merrill

By: Melanie Courtright

Melanie Courtright — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:53:07 +0000

I always got the Fudge Bomb. It was a fudgesicle on the top and bottom and had a layer of banana in the middle. Does anyone know where I can find one of those right now?

We actually have an ice cream truck come through our neighborhood about once a month. My son still comes yelling, but now he wants at least $2.25.

By: janet savoie

janet savoie — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:37:56 +0000

Peter Pallagi was the name of our ice cream man. He had that job for years so he became a friend. I doubt many kids could say that today. In fact, when I got my first autograph book I got his and our milkman’s (we had the same one for years also) autograph! But I am digressing. The ringing of the bell was always my favorite time of day. Since we always had ice cream in the freezer, I always ordered an orange popsicle. I still love them today.

By: Bill Dunn

Bill Dunn — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:42:47 +0000

The bomb pop was always my favorite It was red, white, and blue and shaped, well, like a bomb!

These days I see them in the grocery store from time to time and I can’t help remembering those summer days when we would be playing on the slip and slide, or running through the sprinklers in the back yard and hear the sound of the Good Humor Man!

By: Steve Schlesinger

Steve Schlesinger — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:18:53 +0000

The ice cream truck is an amazing memory from my childhood but the better story is from my son (who is now 11). For the first five years of his life, he would wait to hear the sound of the ice cream truck coming down the street. It was not ding a ling a ling, it was an old piano tune, I think something from the 20s. One day this little five year old looked up at me and said, “Dad, when I get married I want that to be my wedding song” There my friends is the importance of the ice cream truck!

By: Alice Butler

Alice Butler — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:10:13 +0000

My favorite was always the Fudgesicle.

We have vacationed the last two summers in Destin and there is an ice cream guy on the beach. He walks along the beach pulling a small boat on wheels with an ice compartment full of ice cream. It plays the theme from the Entertainer as he walks along. He comes by twice a day, up the beach in the morning and back down the beach in the afternoon.

My daugher squeals with delight when she hears the music and comes running to get money. I don’t remember the last time I saw an ice cream truck come through a neighborhood. It’s great that she gets to experience what I did as a kid if only for one week a year.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 19:32:27 +0000

In my hometown (a suburb of New Orleans), we not only had an ice cream truck drive through our neighborhood, but we also had a sno-ball truck. (A sno-ball is finely shaved ice with syrup in a cup, similar to a snow cone but definitely not the same. Sno-balls are much, much better!) The sno-ball truck had about 50 flavors to choose from, so it always took awhile to order. My favorite flavor of snowball is Ice Cream-Cream!

By: Pat Savolt

Pat Savolt — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:52:01 +0000

The Good Humor man in New Rochelle, NY was indeed a daily treat for our family in the summer. My favorite was the Chocolate Sundae cup. Also liked the Creamsicle. And, Ed, I remember the Toasted Almond.

By: merle holman

merle holman — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:05:47 +0000

I go back even before the ice cream trucks so the ding a ling was made by the silver bell on our bikes. When my kids were little I would get the coconut popsicle from “Jack & Jill”.