That shift caught the attention of John Ralston, an ice cream truck driver in Los Angeles. By the end of the 1940s, Ralston had rigged up his own music box — a complex contraption involving a ...

The music-box tunes, the slow cruise, the icy-sweet reward for chasing them down. Nothing feels more sum-sum-summertime than scoring a frozen treat from an ice-cream truck. They are less ...

If you listen closely, you can hear it in the distance ... the magical chime of the ice cream truck music-box beacon, ringing through the neighborhood and letting you know to get your money ready.

I remember first trying them from the ice cream truck before my parents got a Sam’s Club membership and we would just buy them by the box. A scoop of vanilla ice cream is encased by both a ...

The diesel that powers the trucks has topped $7 a gallon, vanilla ice cream costs $13 a gallon and a 25-pound box of sprinkles now goes for about $60, double what it cost a year ago. Many vendors ...

The ice cream truck is “unfortunately becoming a thing ... Fuel has soared in cost, a gallon of vanilla ice cream runs $13 and a 25-pound box of sprinkles has doubled in price to about $60.

The traditional ice cream truck, Lowe thinks ... Lowe was selling the Choco Tacos, his last box, at a steep markup. He said he’d been steadily raising the price over several days.

Excited children run through parks and race down blocks to get cones, bars and soft serve on sweltering summer days as the sound of the iconic jingle gets louder and the ice cream truck nears.

of Americana: According to a study by Good Humor, nearly 70% of respondents said they noticed fewer ice cream trucks in their neighborhood, and two-thirds of them said they would be upset or sad ...