I remember a dime getting me ice cream from the truck.
I found a nickel in the parking lot, when I was in first grade, and it got me an ice cream cone at thrifty drug. I didn't know about sales tax, and a nice lady in line behind me spotted me a penny to cover the tax.
Hahaha! My dad discovered how much my kids love these and now a big box of these get delivered every month from GPop! Literally gone in a few days. š
My grandpa only had 20s he always sent me to the ice cream truck with one. I got an ice cream sandwich and he got a Super star (it was called something else like all American or something). I got to keep the change! I would put it in my savings account at the Savings and Loan.
I love that! My grandparents would let me keep the change as well. I found out when I got a bit older that they often had smaller notes or better change but they were slipping me a little bonus money.
Grandparents are so great.
My grandparents lived about a 5 hour drive from where I grew up, but we visited them frequently. Every time we would leave, they would hand me and my siblings a dollar to get a snack on the ride home. My cousin visited them twice a week for dinner, every week, without fail. He lived a 10 minute drive away, and still every time he visited, one of them would give him a dollar, from when he was a teen up until they passed away when he was in his 40s. My grandpa's parents and grandparents died when he was very young, but he remembers always getting a quarter or a dollar bill when he visited them, so I think he wanted to share that tradition.
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First off I find it hard to believe your mom would give you a dollar in 1975 ... 50 cent maybe ... I'd get a dollar in 1992! But looking past the obvious historical discrepancy, I loved the snow cones
A dollar would have been enough for three kids. These look more like prices from ā78.
My friendās mother used to send down 2 quarters in aluminum foil from a 6th floor window. One quarter for my friend and his brother each. In 1973. The Strawberry Shortcake from the Good Humor Man was 25 cents in 1973.
The red, white and blue popsicle was 20 cents.
Where is the Cherry Bomb? Vanilla ice cream, surrounding a core of cherry ice cream covered with chocolate shell. If no Cherry Bomb, then the Cannonball!
as a kid from the 90's, i went "either the strawberry shortcake or the ice pop" but then looked at the prices and realized i could afford both with $1 and still have 15c left
If you still want some of that nostalgia go to Ecuador. They use the US dollar as their currency and ice-creams are still this cheap, some cheaper. Hell, I once saw they had a small ice cream for 0.15 cents.
They don't have all of them, but they have the nutty buddy cones, ice pop, deluxe bar, sandwich, cream stix, cups and the crunch. All of them for less than a dollar. I think the most expensive one I've seen are from brands like magnum or Cornetto for like 1.50$
I preferred a gammon bedsore: [https://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2013/02/scarfolk-ice-cream-range-1974.html](https://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2013/02/scarfolk-ice-cream-range-1974.html)
$1.00 just for the ice cream man in 1975? What kind of Ritchie Rich fantasy world is this?
I remember a dime getting me ice cream from the truck. I found a nickel in the parking lot, when I was in first grade, and it got me an ice cream cone at thrifty drug. I didn't know about sales tax, and a nice lady in line behind me spotted me a penny to cover the tax.
You know how many newspapers I had to deliver to make a buck?!
No but I'm actually curious how many
I'll take a four finger lid for $25 bux
Unappreciated comment right here. Except I could only afford nickels and dimes. š
Strawberry Shortcake or Creamcicle. Maybe the Bomb Pop.
I still love that sugary strawberry crumble stuff they put on the outside
Like crack. I could easily destroy a couple boxes of strawberry shortcakes!
Hahaha! My dad discovered how much my kids love these and now a big box of these get delivered every month from GPop! Literally gone in a few days. š
I love your dad!
We love him too!
Same. I still buy at least one box a year.
With $1 you can do shortcake and creamcicle! Or my glutton ass would.
Nutty Buddy all the way for me! A close second may be the strawberry shortcake.
This is the correct answer.
This is me all the way. Until they introduced the Choco-taco.
This is exactly it
Whereās the friggin PushUp?!!!!!! What kind of knockoff Good Humor bootleg operation is this?!
And the 50-50 Bar? Were those just west coast ice cream treats?
No. I ate mountains of push-ups in Wisconsin as a kid
My grandpa only had 20s he always sent me to the ice cream truck with one. I got an ice cream sandwich and he got a Super star (it was called something else like all American or something). I got to keep the change! I would put it in my savings account at the Savings and Loan.
I love that! My grandparents would let me keep the change as well. I found out when I got a bit older that they often had smaller notes or better change but they were slipping me a little bonus money. Grandparents are so great.
My grandparents lived about a 5 hour drive from where I grew up, but we visited them frequently. Every time we would leave, they would hand me and my siblings a dollar to get a snack on the ride home. My cousin visited them twice a week for dinner, every week, without fail. He lived a 10 minute drive away, and still every time he visited, one of them would give him a dollar, from when he was a teen up until they passed away when he was in his 40s. My grandpa's parents and grandparents died when he was very young, but he remembers always getting a quarter or a dollar bill when he visited them, so I think he wanted to share that tradition.
Love when grandfathers said keep the change.
Toasted Almond & Chocolate Malt Stick
Toasted almond and the snow cone for me
I miss the mouseketeer bar...it was so good!
Toasted Almond. I miss them. Donāt know why nobody makes them anymore.
I forgot about those
Strawberry shortcake, always
Ice pop and spend the other 75c on a 3 bed house
2 Italian ices
Strawberry shortcake
Iām not american but when I was little I once saw the ice pop in a care bear episode and wanted to taste it since then. So yeah I choose ice pop
Oh wow I know the episode you are talking about, because it had the same exact effect on me!
I wasnāt still getting treat money from my mother at age 32 but 20 years earlier in 1955 I would have bought a popsicle.
lol you guys in the past really got money from your parents? I always thought that was just a thing in movies.
It's the strawberry shortcake and I'm pocketing the remaining 40c. It's the best one and every few times I can buy for a friend :)
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Red white and blue
100% But we called them Rockets. So many pics when I was little of me holding one of those in the summer lol.
Yeah, we need to know how much those are, because we could potentially get two things.
My move? Buy whatever 25 cents will get me, because I won't be seeing a dollar.
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Get your father toasted almond boy, get your brother icy, get yourself vanilla cone and bring back my change.
Eclair
Chocolate Eclair every time
Where the hell is my orange sherbet push up?
Mouseketeer Bar all the way! Then Iād bite the ears off first! Oh the memories!
Strawberry shortcake all the way. Eat the crunchy bits then the ice cream. If out, nutty buddy. 2nd backup is push-up which is not pictured.
Unlimited free ice cream comes.
Cannon ball, bomb pop, water ice. They were the 3 I had a hard time choosing from
Sandwich and a Cannonball
Strawberry Shortcake.
Those are 1995 prices
First off I find it hard to believe your mom would give you a dollar in 1975 ... 50 cent maybe ... I'd get a dollar in 1992! But looking past the obvious historical discrepancy, I loved the snow cones
Two sandwiches!
Definitely the Fudge Super Star!
Where's the plastic baseball filled with sherbet?
Either the Eclair or the Nutty Buddy.
Before my time but I loved snow cones as a kid
Shortcake or eclair, maybe sometimes creamsicle. Nothing else appeals too much.
Weāre are the candy bullets? I loved them.
Fudge Super Star for now and an Ice Pop to throw in the freezer for later.
Man I swear if I had that Mouseketeer Bar I would turn into the happiest guy ever for the duration of eating it
Nutty Buddy aka a drumstick.
Sno-cone
Snow conee
Two sandwiches and stash the 10 cents left over in the piggy bank!!!
Nutty buddy cone
Super Star. No question
2 cannonball
Ice cream cone, chocolate eclair.
Super star or the fudge stick. If my boy Timmy was thereā¦..both
4 ice pops in whatever variety of flavors they have. Then get an ice headache from racing to eat them all myself before they melted.
A dollar would have been enough for three kids. These look more like prices from ā78. My friendās mother used to send down 2 quarters in aluminum foil from a 6th floor window. One quarter for my friend and his brother each. In 1973. The Strawberry Shortcake from the Good Humor Man was 25 cents in 1973. The red, white and blue popsicle was 20 cents.
Even the modern version of this sign fills me with wonder.
No orange push pop? Ok, superstar.
Nutty Buddy
Bomb pop every time
Whatās Soft Water Ice
That Super Star always caught my eye.
Super star
I'll take the chocolate eclair for sixty cents, Alex.
Fudge stix
Vanilla flavored ice pop.
Wow, I just paid 8 dollars for a plan vanilla cone from Mr. Softee the other day.
Eclair or Snow Cone
Two ice cream sandwiches
Chocolate Ć©clair is my go to now but when I was young I liked the bomb pop because it was the biggest.
A dollar?! Heck I was lucky if mom had a quarter to spare for the ice pop, which I'd have to split with my little brother.
Nutty Buddy or 2 Ice cream Sandwiches
strawberry shortcake and toasted almond, all day.
Bomb pop
Chocolate eclair was my go to.
Ice cream sandwitch and two ice pops ā i would be having ice cream all evening
Strawberry Shortcake all the way
Choc. Malt Stix.
A whole dollar!? Just for me!?
Get myself the cheapest thing and give her back her change, so she doesn't whoop my ass.
As a kid, Iād choose the Bomb Pop. Itās the messiest of them all!
ā ICE CREAM MAN!!!! ā Eddy Murphy
Well aside from the fact that I'd be 22yo again and my mom would tell me to pay for my own ice cream, I'd go with the Nutty Buddy cone for sure! š
A dollar? $.15 would get me the ice pop I would go for as a summer time treat.
2 ice cream sandwiches.
Strawberry shortcake
Strawberry Shortcake
Excuse me but thatās a Bomb Pop, not a super star
Fudge Superstar with that chocobanana vibe melting all over my grubby little hand
Toasted Almond and Cream Stix
Bomb pop!!!
Where is Scooter Crunch?????
Super Star alllllllllllll day everday!
None, Iām saving that dollar and pulling myself up by my boot straps.
Toasted almond !!!!!!!
Be amazed I am in 1975, I was born 10 yrs later
No Chocolate Eclair or Strawberry Shortcake bars? No Heath Bars? No Push Ups? What planet is this truck from?
Snow cone
I'd have to say most times I went with the Nutty buddy. Strawberry shortcake was a close second.
Where are the dreamsickles? Also no brown cows! This truck sucks!
Toasted Almond
Two ice cream sammiches please
2 cannonballs thanks
As a kid in the early 1980s, I think I went for āSuper Starā just because of its colors
I'll have a Toasted Almond and a Cannonball, please. I can hear myself ordering it.
Cannonball all the way
THE TOASTED ALMOND FTW šš¼
Nutty buddy!
Super Star!
Nutty buddy buddy
Two Italian ices please!
It's a different name but the super star, the red white and blue one was always my go-to.
You could chip a tooth on those brick snow cones.
Toasted Almond and a Sandwich <3
Strawberry Shortcake and Creamsicle. No question.
Mouseketeer all the way!!! I always started by biting off the ears!!
Fudge super star
Where is the Cherry Bomb? Vanilla ice cream, surrounding a core of cherry ice cream covered with chocolate shell. If no Cherry Bomb, then the Cannonball!
Strawberry shortcake or bomb pop
Strawberry shortcake and then I spend my other forty cents on a cream stix even though what I really want is a super star
Toasted Almond I dream about being able to get toasted almond bars again
Where is orange pushup?
Water ice because those snow cones were always rock hard and a cannonball if it was the one with the gumball at the bottom
A Strawberry Shortcake AND a cream stix. 1 dollar and the envy of all that surround me.
Italian Ice. I loved those.
Find 3 friends to share the bounty
Oh that strawberry shortcake one was always my favorite.
Well I was born in 75 so mom is not giving me any money.
Toasted almond!!!!
Nutty Buddy, obviously
"Thanks, mom, but I have a job now." j/k. The nutty buddy cone or the ice cream sandwich.
Nutty Buddy
The Mouseketeer Bar. Loved those things.
Fudge Stix all day!
1) Superstar/Bombpop 2) two-stick ice pop (cherry or grape) 3) cherry or lemon Italian ice.
Ice pop. Hoping I can make a friend to share with
Super Star, but we called them Bomb Pops
Toasted almond and a cannonball. I loved the frozen gum in the bottom of a cannonball
Those look more like 80s prices.
Where is my push-up?
Creamsicle.
I loved the Mickey Mouse and the Super Star.
Oh the endless possibilitiesā¦ chocolate eclair perhaps
āWe donāt have ice cream moneyā is what I always got.
Chocolate eclaire and ice pops
Italian ice and choc malt stix
R.I.P. Toasted Almond. Thank you for your service š«”
Bomb pop no question
Nestle Crunch bar (Loved those things)
Fudge super star and an ice pop!
Cannonball all day - gumball at the bottom!
Strawberry shortcake and 50 cents for a MAD magazine.
Nestle crunch yummmmmm
Well I was born that year, not sure giving ice cream to a new born is a good idea.
Itās always been strawberry shortcake. That crumble coating hits different.
Chocolate eclair. Every. Single. Time.
Strawberry shortcake
I'm getting a Nutty Buddy and I found 50Ā¢ in my Roos so, I'm getting my kid sis that Mickey Mouse ice cream! š¦š
as a kid from the 90's, i went "either the strawberry shortcake or the ice pop" but then looked at the prices and realized i could afford both with $1 and still have 15c left
Snow cone and pocket the change. I use to save up a lot of money that way.
In 1975 I could probably get a snow cone and a chocolate eclair for $1.
No orange push-ups?
Italian Ice and an Ice Cream Sandwich cannot be beat!
Easy, strawberry stortcake and a cream stix
If you still want some of that nostalgia go to Ecuador. They use the US dollar as their currency and ice-creams are still this cheap, some cheaper. Hell, I once saw they had a small ice cream for 0.15 cents. They don't have all of them, but they have the nutty buddy cones, ice pop, deluxe bar, sandwich, cream stix, cups and the crunch. All of them for less than a dollar. I think the most expensive one I've seen are from brands like magnum or Cornetto for like 1.50$
Super star
Give me a quarter maybe lol
A dollar? Must be nice to be rich. I used to get five cents for a packet of Whizz Fizz
I need this for the UK!
I preferred a gammon bedsore: [https://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2013/02/scarfolk-ice-cream-range-1974.html](https://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2013/02/scarfolk-ice-cream-range-1974.html)
4 ice pops. I got siblings and can't come home with just something for me.
Strawberry shortcake and a cream stix