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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
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I mentioned the cone-shaped Currie's the other day. I had forgotten about Peterson's
Here's an original snapshot that I just came across on ebay. It shows a Peterson's Ice Cream Stand with two column-like cones.
"GIANT PETERSON'S ICE CREAM CONE ROADSIDE PARLOR vtg 20's LOS ANGELES photo SIGN"
eBay
The photo was found in an album of California & Nevada photos. . .the seller admits he/she doesn't know the exact location.
That said , there's a very interesting detail visible in the distance to the left of ice cream stand.
And it appears to be a GIANT TIRE!
detail
Wow
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I remember the Currie's stands when I was a kid. They had one big conical cone on the roof instead of the two with this Peterson's outfit. The Currie's cone on the roof was at least 20 feet tall, maybe more. I think Currie's went out of business because of competition with Basken & Robbin's ice cream shops, which were opening lots of franchises in the mid to late 1960s. I always tried to talk my parents into stopping at a Basken & Robbins for a triple scoop cone: chocolate almond, burgundy cherry and pistachio. Delicious..can still taste it even though that was over 50 years ago. No plain vanilla for me. I also remember there were a lot of Orange Julius stands back then. Don't see them anymore. Same with Woolworths, Zody's, Thriftymart, Thrifty's drugs (good ice cream cones for a nickle a scoop), Van de Camps with the windmill etc. Youthful memories defunct.
Needless to say with all the triple scoops, I was a husky kid, borderline fat by high school. They were always trying to get me to join the football team as a lineman because of my size, but I was a bookish nerd, good with science & math etc. and physically somewhat uncoordinated. Plus I was ahead of my time, afraid of losing brain cells to concussion playing tackle football. So I said no. I lost weight so they would stop bothering me to join the team. Coach got back at me by giving me a C in gym. But in my high school, PE didn't count in GPA, so I got the last laugh and got into a good college.