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Good Humor Man in 2008!

I REMEMBER THOSE BELLS RINGING ON THE WARM SUMMER EVENINGS!

Official Site:
www.icecreamusa.com/
www.goodhumor.com/good_humor/

Photos: goodhumortrucks.com/photo.html

Buy a truck (toy of course) www.toytruckcity.com/trucksmisc.html

Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Humor

Good Humor is an American brand of ice cream novelties sold from ice cream trucks as well as stores and other retail outlets. The "Good Humor Man" was a fixture in American popular culture for many decades. As late as the 1970s, the company operated 1200 "salescars". While the company sold its fleet in 1978, independent owners and operators continue this service.

Harry Burt, a Youngstown, Ohio candy maker, invented Good Humor ice cream in 1920 and was granted a patent in 1923. By then, he had outfitted twelve street vending trucks in Youngstown with rudimentary freezers and bells. By 1925, his son, Harry Burt Jr. (1900 – 1972) opened a franchise in Miami, Florida.

After Burt died in 1926, his widow sold the rights to a group of Cleveland businessmen who established Good Humor of America. Tom Brimer purchased the franchise for the Detroit territory and by 1929 opened his second plant in Chicago. When Brimer paid a 25% dividend, he caught the attention of Michael J. Meehan, a notorious Wall Street stock speculator. With Brimer’s help, Meehan purchased 75% of the company for $500,000 and quickly took the company national.

Meehan’s Good Humor Corporation of America operated in New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Detroit and Chicago. There were also three major franchises: Good Humor of Baltimore/Washington operated by the Brimer family, Burt’s Good Humor operated by Harry Burt Jr. in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Good Humor of California.

The company was tremendously successful because it provided customers with an inexpensive diversion during the Depression. Jobs were scarce and Good Humor found all the employees it could use, despite an 80-hour work week and paramilitary discipline. While drivers were only paid commissions, it was not unusual for driver to clear the then princely sum of over $100 per week. The company was also successful in attracting favorable publicity by parking trucks outside of motion picture studios. Over the years, Good Humor appeared in over 200 movies. In 1950, Jack Carson starred in the feature motion picture, “The Good Humor Man.”

Taken on: July 25, 2008

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Camera: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT, f/11.0, 1/250 sec, 10mm, ISO 400 (more info) (hide info)

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