The increase in ice cream truck popularity . Good Humor's fleet expanded in the 1930s to include pushcarts, bicycles, tricycles and shoulder boxes, a Good Humor spokesperson said.

Most of us have fond memories of running after ice cream trucks just to get our favorite cold treat. Some of these old-school treats are still available today.

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.

But today, the number of ice cream trucks on the road has shrunk — and so has the demand for music boxes. These days, the company only produces 300-400 boxes per year.

The ice cream truck, he said, is “unfortunately becoming a thing of the past.” New delivery methods, through third-party apps or ghost kitchens, are proliferating.

A police department in Chicopee, Massachusetts, sometimes operates a vehicle different from a patrol car: an ice cream truck. The officers do not charge customers for the sweet treats.