It’s said that the higher-than-average incidence of gloomy weather in Seattle, Washington creates a higher-than-average incidence of gloomy residents. Sure, you can blame it on the rain, but you can also blame it on the fact that ice cream trucks are illegal in Seattle.
That’s right. Due to laws against selling food from the road, the magical trucks with the happy music and delicious frozen treats are prohibited from roving the streets and distributing their pick-me-ups to hungry children and adults. But that may soon change according to a Seattle Times article, as city planners consider relaxing the restriction against food vendors. That’s great news! Who wants a bomb pop?
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That’s rediculous!
we get three or four down our street here each day…make mine a gum-ball cone….lol
Write a letter to Seattle’s mayor!
we get ice cream truck around supper time, not good
When I was about 6 years old visiting my grandmother’s house I saw my first ice cream truck. I thought it was strange.
That’s part of growing up.
Can’t replace the memory when your a child of an ice cream truck and it’s music coming past your house. Hoping that your parents will buy something from the ice cream man.
That’s good news BUT I feel we should go back to the “BELLS ONLY”. As kids we always needed only the bells which sometimes kept ringing since we loved to pull the string. The PA music with its volume which never stops can drive you nuts. How many times can you take “Its a small world” when there is a line a kids waiting to be served. The old Good Humor trucks only had bells.
Think of the money the parents in Seattle save! Oh well, what’s the fun with growing up without an ice cream truck? I can still hear my kids running in yelling “Skippy is coming – can I have some money?” Now they are listening to their kids asking for money for the ice cream man – ah, sweet memories!
Every child should experience the sounds of the ice cream truck in their neighborhood. I just wish it could be more affordable so all children could experience the thrill of buying a treat from the ice cream man.
I wonder how Turkey Hill sales are in Seattle. If you can’t buy ice cream from a truck then why not buy Turkey Hill in the store? But as many bloggers wrote it is a nostalgia thing to hear the ice cream truck coming down your neighborhood.
I love your ice cream!
As a kid, the thought of not being allowed to run and asked for some change and thenget to the curb as the ice cream man was coming up the street? That is just wrong. You could hear the song so you knew he was coming. Poor Seattle kids.
When I was young ice cream truck had bells . Bring back the bells , can the taped music !!!
WHEN I WAS LITTLE WE LIVED IN AN APARTMENT BUILDING. MY SISTER ANDI WOULD HEAR FROM THE TRUCKS BELLS THAT HE WAS GETTING CLOSER TO OUR AREA AND WOULD RUN DOWN 5 FLIGHTS OF STAIRS AS FAST AS WE COULD TO GET THERE IN TIME.
THOSE YEARS IT WAS SOFT ICE CREAM AND THEY WOULD MAKE YOU SUNDAES OR CONES WITH WHATEVER TOPPING YOU WANTED. THEN IT WENT TO REGULAR ICE CREAM POPS AND CONES FROM GOOD HUMOR.
THOSE WERE FUN MEMORIES OF BEING A KID.
These trucks are almost a thing of the past at least in our neighborhood. I remember the melodious sound and knew for sure “The IceCream truck is coming”, just like the Pied Piper!
wow we had the ice crean truck as kids.now they have to worry about the kids. there might be a bad guy. i feel for the ice cream man
when I was a kid we got real ice cream (tasty freeze ) frozen custard, we waited all day for it. now a days they only have popcycles and they cost more then if you bought a whole box of them, what happened to the good old days
Seattle, you have been deprived far too long. I grew up in Buffalo, also not exactly known for its great weather, but when summer finally did arrive (for a day or two!), we all lived for the sound of that little bell in the neighborhood.
You deserve better.
One night we were at an outdoor play. We heard the music from a nearby ice cream truck and it was quite annoying.
That’s terrible!
The ice cream truck is an American tradition! Pretty soon they’ll outlaw tailgating at football games and eating hotdogs in the baseball stands!
When I was young, I too loved that sound. Now we spend most of the summer at the beach and every night we hear the ice cream truck. However, it not only plays the same tune about “a little tiny world” over and over, it also adds annoying boings and clanks and car horn sounds! I don’t know who came up with this one but it is giving us a headache. A change of tune wouldn’t hurt!
How Horrible! I’m glad that I don’t live in Seattle. Wow, I feel for the little ones who don’t get a chance to feel the excitement of hearing those bells ringing and hearing the music playing. How can you deprive the little ones of running to the ice cream truck and getting a special treat. Well, hopefully they can go to the grocery store and pick up some Turkey Hill ice cream. If not, then it is time to move from Seattle.
Poor kids in Seattle! Well they have supermarkets dont they? At least they can be treated to great-tasting TH ice cream!
we, have a ice cream truck on our street;but he drives so fast down street , you can not check him;; he is always in rush
Bring back ALL the ice cream trucks…….they were great, growing up!
Our small town hears the happy music once a week and I love it! Even if I don’t buy anything, it still makes me smile.
I don’t think it’s such a bad idea to ban ice cream trucks. With obesity such a problem in America, parents should have more control over their child’s junk food intake. A jingling ice cream truck may be too sweet a temptation for children. Let people who want ice cream buy it in the store.
We have them here on Long Island, but some of the music is really awful. It blares and blares, and then as the truck turns the corner, it gets all distorted and freaky… ugh!! And the prices– yikes!! I buy my yummy TH ice cream in the supermarket, thank you very much!
Oh the joys of the Ice Cream truck when we were kids…
We never had ice cream trucks where I lived as a child. In fact I never saw one , nor did my children. They would certainly be something to have around now, but don’t know of any arond Lancaster or vicinity within a good many miles.
and their coffee shops keep them sleepless too. give me ice cream anyday, from a truck, from a store, please don’t say I can’t have no more
ice cream.