Ice cream made fresh on the premises every day.
Serving cones, cups, sundaes, shakes, slushies, floats, Pineapple Dole Whip. Pints, quarts to go.
Well, you just heard Tr Maybe approaching 90. And of course, I think that means it is ice cream weather. Ice cream, you scream. Yes, we all scream for some ice cream. In tonight's My Ohio, Leon Bibb takes us to an ice cream shop that has been serving up the s A great thinker suggested we not inquire why we enjoy ice cream. Just savor it before it melts. Wisdom there. Simply mention ice cream and the smiles will fall. Those in the s For sale at Strickland's Ice Cream in Akron is the cool comfort foods of all comfort foods. It makes you feel great. Families come down and have memories because once you have Strickland's, its taste is indelibly imprinted on your mind and tongue. Scott Markroth knows that a third generation ice cream man who knows his way around an ice cream scoop looks like You've done this before. I've done a couple of them before. Do Yeah. He started at the age of five years old feeding into the machine. That's amazing. He was a kindergartner when he first helped his dad feed the ice cream mixer in Strickland's walkup stand on Triplet Boulevard in Akron. Scott inherited the hot hand for a cold product from his father who inherited it from his uncle. It was Uncle Bill and Aunt Florence Strickland who ventured into the ice cream business. There'll be plenty of people willing to bellow gimme one of them cones, they said, and they were right. When Bill and Florence Strickland started their little ice cream stand back in 1936, the country was in the depths of the Depression. But a person could walk up and slap down five cents on the counter and say, one ice cream cone please. A little pleasure in times of a great depression. In those days couples gathered within sight of the Akron Fulton Airport and the Goodyear Air Dock watching aviation walk the skies. No cost for that. A couple of nickels for ice cream and a romance.
