Ice Cream Collectibles

I went out with friends the other night, and over ice cream we were reminiscing about our favorite ice cream parlor in our youth, Farrell's.
Wondering whatever happened to that fun chain, I googled it.


Here's Farrell's current site, with some history. Sadly, it was a case of it getting bought out by a big company, then another company, and the 3rd owner had to mess with a good thing... bye bye Farrell's! But it appears they're trying to make a comeback.



I found lots of sites and blogs with people telling stories and reliving great moments spent celebrating there. I remember always getting my free birthday sundae!



The originator, and now noted marketing speaker, Bob Farrell's motto was "Give 'em the pickle!" A great marketing/customer service strategy for everyone in every business - give the customer what they want. Coincidently, the Friendly's restaurant we were at gave my friend a hassle over getting his expected pickle with his burger-- they are no longer including them with the burgers. I am surprised that an ice cream-focused modern chain restaurant would let that particular episode happen-- I am sure that corporate has to have heard of Farrell's pickle theory.




Here are a few collectible items from Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor's past that have been on ebay recently.

So why am I going off about all this on my 'Tique Talk blog? Well, today I picked up my Antique Week paper, and the cover story is on the history of ice cream -- turns out July is National Ice Cream Month!




I have a couple of neat antique ice cream advertising tin trays in my 'Lima, Ohio' memorabilia collection. Both are from Graham's Ice Cream, with great colorful images printed on them.



I know that there are some really collectible ice cream related items. There was an ice cream scoop on ebay recently that sold for over $4000!

Well-- now I am going to go have a bowl of my current favorite ice cream -- Blue Bunny PEANUT BUTTER PANIC -- yum!

So I'll leave you with the neat ebay search widget for ebay auctions with "ice cream" in the title: