"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
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>> Same store also sold icecream cones - 8 cents for one scoop, bargain
>> to get two scoops for 15, but who had that kind of money?
>> They had a real soda fountain with marble counter - but no stools -
>> these ppl did not want anyone taking up space over a period of time.
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> When I was a kid in the 50s convenience stores and some drug stores sold
> ice cream cones... chocolate, vanilla or strawberry, and the ice cream
> came in tubes. They ripped the wrapper off and stuck the ice cream in
> the cone.
I remember those..late forties....last fall we went to an agricultural
fair and one of the booths had square ones that were wrapped in paper and
fit into wider cones...reminded me of when I was a kid...we went to Grammas
and she sent to the corner store for enough cones and ice cream rolls for
everyone. We would sit out on her front lawn and assemble our own....Sharon
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> There was a Diana Sweets in the city where I spent my teen years. They had
> a black and white ceramic tile floor and wooden booths. You could get just
> about any kind of soft drink, all made from flavour syrups and carbonated
> water. Milk shakes were made with real milk and ice cream. That place was
> in business until the late 1980s.