Too bad that the tradition couldn’t continue. Becoming a legend of their own, the trucks were a symbol of the company even after insurance woes and high fuel prices drove the products to only a grocery store and independent contractor existence. The operation was so well organized that vendors were trained for three days on the proper way to sell Good Humor products.

After bribing the patent office with a five-gallon pail of ice cream bars, he got his patent and his business grew from the original twelve trucks to a fleet of thousands of trucks, carts, and even flocks of unique tricycles with coolers on the front. Always looking for a way to make money, Burt came up with a radical concept of a bar of ice cream covered in a layer of chocolate and frozen to a stick. With a buy it now price of $65,000, is there a well-heeled ice cream lover out there ready to put on a white uniform and fulfill their destiny as the next Good Humor Man?Īccording to their website, Good Humor was started in 1920 by confectioner Harry Burt. The 800-pound gorilla of ice cream sales was Good Humor, and the company built up their business by using semi-customized trucks like this 1966 Ford currently for sale here on eBay. Thank goodness the ice cream was pre-packaged! Up north, the ice cream sellers had a bit more class. Running them were guys in dirty T-shirts who looked as if they didn’t have running water at home and were allergic to soap. Post Office vehicles that had seen their better days. Where I grew up, all the ice cream trucks were old decrepit step vans or former U.S.

Nothing makes kids pour out of a neighborhood in zombie-like fashion than an ice cream truck.

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