The business model is evolving because of a few factors, he said: Changing consumer habits, cost increases and demographics all mean you're more likely to see an ice cream truck parked outside a ...

You’ve never heard of him, but he’s the guy responsible for all of the music that gets played out of nearly every ice cream truck across the country. Back in 1973, Nichols – an electrical ...

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.

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 ...

the magical chime of the ice cream truck music-box beacon ... all you needed was a handful of change and an attentive ear to get in on the good stuff. These ice cream truck treats may have ...

We hadn’t noticed the ice-cream truck leaving. We hadn’t noticed its loud music pulling away ... and I told him to keep the change. The man gave me a standing ovation. I took my ice cream ...

To underline her point about the trucks’ disruptive nature, Tobin offered an anecdote about hearing an ice cream truck blasting music as she ... effect the proposed change would have on local ...

Around 1929, some Good Humor drivers started replacing their bells with ad hoc mechanical music boxes. That shift caught the attention of John Ralston, an ice cream truck driver in Los Angeles.