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Posted: 8/27/2016 10:36:00 AM EDT

When I was a kid we had one go by with the music playing every day during the summer months.

We would run home and get a quarter from mom when ever we heard the music coming .

Posted: 8/27/2016 10:36:21 AM EDT

[#1]

IBTP

yes

Posted: 8/27/2016 10:36:37 AM EDT

[#2]

Ice cream trucks wouldn't survive the roads.

Posted: 8/27/2016 10:38:03 AM EDT

[#3]

Yes

Posted: 8/27/2016 10:39:40 AM EDT

[#4]

Yes, year 'round.

Posted: 8/27/2016 10:40:26 AM EDT

[#5]

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We would run home and get a quarter from mom when ever we heard the music coming .

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You're going to need four of those quarters now ... the price of food has doubled in the last 7 years.

Posted: 8/27/2016 10:40:52 AM EDT

[#6]

Yes, had one come by work yesterday.

Posted: 8/27/2016 10:41:34 AM EDT

[#7]

Yup.

Posted: 8/27/2016 10:42:19 AM EDT

[#8]

I live three blocks from the Children's Museum; Saturday and Sunday reverberate with Pop Goes the Weasel.

Posted: 8/27/2016 10:42:31 AM EDT

[#9]

My buds uncle did 8 years in Lewisburg, PA.
for selling more than just fudgesickles from his truck.
That's a scary place for a Mr Softee driver.

Posted: 8/27/2016 10:46:16 AM EDT

[#10]

We live in a spread out sub division in the county. We get an ice cream about twice a week. I get a strawberry shortcake once a week. Those things are awesome.

Posted: 8/27/2016 10:47:17 AM EDT

[#11]

Business idea: frozen margarita trucks

Posted: 8/27/2016 10:47:57 AM EDT

[#12]

One comes around my neighborhood,his music drives my dogs crazy. Local kids dig it.

Posted: 8/27/2016 10:49:02 AM EDT

[#13]

My town is pretty small -- too small to have regular ice cream truck service. Still, a couple of times each summer I hear one. Must be somebody who comes into town for a couple of days . . .

But the real reason I came here is to say that I drove one of those trucks one summer. In 1979 I came home from college without a summer job so I answered a newspaper ad. The next day I was driving around the streets of north St. Louis County (at the southern edge of Ferguson) ringing a bell and slinging bomb pops. Did it all summer long. In hindsight, it was a pretty shitty job but I did it. Ate a lot of ice cream that summer . . .

Posted: 8/27/2016 10:49:42 AM EDT

[#14]

One hits our neighborhood every now and then.
I work near a popular park, and they come through there often.

I grew up three doors down from a guy who had a small fleet of them in his garage, so I heard them pretty often as a kid.

Posted: 8/27/2016 10:49:51 AM EDT

[#15]

Yes. He never stops and drives at 35mph in a 25. I'm convinced he's slinging drugs out of it lol. No he's not Big Perm.

Posted: 8/27/2016 10:50:19 AM EDT

[#16]

Yes, though I haven't seen him in a few weeks.

Posted: 8/27/2016 10:52:20 AM EDT

[#17]

Gotta tell the kids they only play the music when he's out of ice cream.

We have a super creeper muslim guy in our neighborhood, he looks like a kidnapper. I love bomb pops though, so I'll deal with him.

Posted: 8/27/2016 10:54:35 AM EDT

[#18]

Where else would we get our machine guns and drugs?

Posted: 8/27/2016 10:55:36 AM EDT

[#19]

hell yeah the one that rolls through around here is really good homemade ice cream too, not that prepackaged bullshit

Posted: 8/27/2016 11:05:15 AM EDT

[#20]

We do, and he keeps coming by at like 9pm when I've already put my son to sleep. I have money waiting on the counter to run out and chase him down.

Posted: 8/27/2016 11:09:10 AM EDT

[#21]

Nope. Those days are long gone.

Posted: 8/27/2016 11:09:30 AM EDT

[#22]

Ice cream jeeps here.

Posted: 8/27/2016 11:11:42 AM EDT

[#23]

Yup

Posted: 8/27/2016 11:12:39 AM EDT

[#24]

Yes. Last yearn they never stopped. It was December and 40 degrees and they still came around.

Posted: 8/27/2016 11:14:13 AM EDT

[#25]

Not where I grew up. Too rural. I was always told that when the music is playing the truck is out of ice cream.

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Posted: 8/27/2016 11:17:16 AM EDT

[#26]

In my area, the ice cream trucks stick to the poorer neighborhoods.

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One of my friends was yelled at by his neighbors to get back in his house because the ice cream truck he was running after wasn't for white boys.
That ice cream truck got busted for drugs a few weeks later.

Kharn

Posted: 8/27/2016 11:32:58 AM EDT

[#27]

When I was young they were jeeps that rang a bell that you could hear a long way off.

Posted: 8/27/2016 11:33:56 AM EDT

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Posted: 8/27/2016 11:35:53 AM EDT

[#29]

They drive down the road once in a while. I don't live in a development, so IDK if the guy is just killing time or what.

Posted: 8/27/2016 11:38:52 AM EDT

[#30]

More importantly, when was the last time your ice cream truck made a sale?

Posted: 8/27/2016 11:39:29 AM EDT

[#31]

Yes only in spring and early summer

Posted: 8/27/2016 11:39:56 AM EDT

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They drive down the road once in a while. I don't live in a development, so IDK if the guy is just killing time or what.

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I don't either and my home is pretty rural but when growing up I was in a neighborhood .

The streets were filled with us riding our bikes , playing around.

Posted: 8/27/2016 11:41:19 AM EDT

[#33]

Everytime I've seen one in the past 10yrs, it's been shitty, rusted out rapemobiles driven by jenky looking guys. No thanks.

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Posted: 8/27/2016 11:42:30 AM EDT

[#34]

Saw one drive past the house yesterday.

Posted: 8/27/2016 11:43:28 AM EDT

[#35]

Yes, we've got two here that drive through pretty regularly. At least twice a day during the Summer months. They're both ghetto as hell rusted up vehicles. One is an Astro van, faded lime green with a horrible loud speaker blasting dopey music, but cheap prices. The other is some type of renovated Wonderbread delivery van. I swear the guy that drives that is a crackhead. He's always slowing down and chatting up girls walking the sidewalks and his prices are ridiculous.

Not what I remember as a kid.

Posted: 8/27/2016 11:44:15 AM EDT

[#36]

The other day we had a ice cream cart in our neighborhood. The kind you push. And a guy in front of him in on the turn in from of my house with a portable speaker for the music.

LOL.

Posted: 8/27/2016 11:45:03 AM EDT

[#37]

Yes, there is a FSA apt complex at the entrance to our neighborhood

I occasionally hear that music drift through the neighborhood, but they done come into our hood

Not enough ankle biters

Posted: 8/27/2016 11:45:31 AM EDT

[#38]

Every friday

Posted: 8/27/2016 12:01:52 PM EDT

[#39]

sometimes on weekends one comes by.

Posted: 8/27/2016 12:04:25 PM EDT

[#40]

Yes

Posted: 8/27/2016 12:04:34 PM EDT

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Big Perm!

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Posted: 8/27/2016 12:04:45 PM EDT

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In my area, the ice cream trucks stick to the poorer neighborhoods . . .

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When I drove an ice cream truck I always did better in poorer neighborhoods.

Families with money probably have ice cream in the freezer. Also, in poorer neighborhoods folks tend to be outside or they're more likely to have the windows open and can hear the bell. Ultimately, poor people are more likely to waste money on temporary pleasures.

It's been 35 years since I drove a bomb-pop truck but at that time the inner city routes were the most coveted areas. The suburban routes sucked. I had everything from housing projects to nice homes. I stayed out of the good neighborhoods.

Posted: 8/27/2016 12:07:32 PM EDT

[#43]

we had at least two of them, and both were very annoying. One played "La Cucaracha" all the time and the other one did Christmas tunes. And you'd hear them all damn day.

Earlier this summer, they just.... disappeared. Yay. Was hoping local noise ordinance was invoked on them.

Posted: 8/27/2016 12:13:38 PM EDT

[#44]

This one always drives by my house but never seems to stop for me...

Posted: 8/27/2016 12:16:12 PM EDT

[#45]

Eddie Murphy. Delirious. Language NSFW

Posted: 8/27/2016 12:23:38 PM EDT

[#46]

Some guy that looks like Charles Manson drives thru my area.

The music from that truck would drive me crazy. A loudspeaker constantly repeats the same ~12 piano notes from 1970's movie The Sting.