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Post by dive61364 on Apr 7, 2016 7:42:00 GMT -6
I haven't been there in many years.
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Post by capncrunch on Apr 7, 2016 7:44:36 GMT -6
Any word what time the flying ice cream fight suppose to start at this place? I just want to prepare my camera so I can put it on the social media.
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Post by OutlawwithaSnipeSniper on Apr 7, 2016 7:46:14 GMT -6
I have not been there since it was last called Tootie Freeze was it ? . Nah, Tootsie Freeze was up by 12th street. I can't remember that ever being an ice cream place before, it used to be a drive in root beer stand. ( Big Dippers that is )
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Post by nextofkin on Apr 7, 2016 7:52:36 GMT -6
Many years ago it was an ice cream place if I am right and we are talking about the place across from Quick Kill right.
IDK then or can't remember the name if it was Tootie Freeze.
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Post by helencrump on Apr 7, 2016 8:22:46 GMT -6
Tootsie Freeze was between Bolerasky and the laundromat until Dorothy had her building moved across the street to the east side of bloomington, from the west side of the street.
Time Out is the one by Ricks nursery and Quick Kill.
Big Dipper started as Roys Drive in, was closed for a long time, reopened as Big Dipper Ice Cream, and South Perk sandwich shop. Then reopened as Big Dipper, by the SOL member by the same name/southsideman
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2016 10:45:54 GMT -6
Prior to that was the Roys(food) name run by the same family that owned Steve's Market and prior to that was the original Roys(drive in) run by the Roy family. I am sorry I didn't remember the South Perk in the time line, perhaps someone can supply me with a little detail about that one. Overall though, the location was closed more than it was open since the 70's. I don't ever recall the Soltis's who ran Steve's market running Roy's Drive In southsideman, perhaps his children might have but I doubt Steve and his wife did. Andy Roy and his wife ran it up to around 1970 and then Bud Neumann (sp?) and his wife operated it for several years before it closed. Mrs. Franzen operated the Tootsie Freeze for years, I can remember riding bicycles or walking there to get ice cream and that was in the very early 60's.
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Post by nextofkin on Apr 7, 2016 11:03:01 GMT -6
OK, but way back when Time out was named something else what was it. There was an ice cream shop there many a days back before Time out what was it's name.
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Post by nextofkin on Apr 7, 2016 11:12:01 GMT -6
OK, but way back when Time out was named something else what was it. There was an ice cream shop there many a days back before Time out what was it's name. Pretty sure it was Cream Curl....or Kreme Kurl, or some variation of the name. Sir that rings a bell. Thank You
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2016 11:16:38 GMT -6
It's possible Steve's daughter ran it after the Neuman's, Steve and Marge had their hands full with the grocery store. Bud Neuman worked for what is now Quik Kill as his day job and his wife Fern operated it when he couldn't be there. I can remember the Drive In being closed in the later 70's into the 80's for a period of time. Pieper's gas station next door was still standing when it was closed and I can't remember when they tore that down now.
You asked in another post if grocery stores sold much ice cream back in those days and I don't ever recall the neighborhood stores having any freezer space other than maybe a small display that held ice cream bars, etc. There was nowhere near the amount of refrigerated and frozen foods like you find today. The norm back then was go to a dairy like Super Dairy or Ill. Valley to get your milk, ice cream and other dairy products.
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Post by dumdave on Apr 7, 2016 11:37:20 GMT -6
I don't think the Kurley Cream (sp?) place was where the Time Out is now. It was just a hole-in-the-wall place closer to the tracks. My family used to go down to the Santa Fe station to watch the Super Chief come in and then go across the tracks for an ice cream cone. Doesn't get more exciting than that in Streator. Right up there with watching the time and temp. change on the then NEW Union National Bank sign/building.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2016 12:15:29 GMT -6
I don't think the Kurley Cream (sp?) place was where the Time Out is now. It was just a hole-in-the-wall place closer to the tracks. My family used to go down to the Santa Fe station to watch the Super Chief come in and then go across the tracks for an ice cream cone. Doesn't get more exciting than that in Streator. Right up there with watching the time and temp. change on the then NEW Union National Bank sign/building. I can remember it being where it is back in the 60's DD, it was smaller that what it is now. There was also a small restaurant next door to the west, it looked like a house and I believe the owners lived in the back. Didn't the Ill. Valley Dairy also have a ice cream shop/store to the West of the tracks ?
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Post by dumdave on Apr 7, 2016 12:31:26 GMT -6
I don't think the Kurley Cream (sp?) place was where the Time Out is now. It was just a hole-in-the-wall place closer to the tracks. My family used to go down to the Santa Fe station to watch the Super Chief come in and then go across the tracks for an ice cream cone. Doesn't get more exciting than that in Streator. Right up there with watching the time and temp. change on the then NEW Union National Bank sign/building. I can remember it being where it is back in the 60's DD, it was smaller that what it is now. There was also a small restaurant next door to the west, it looked like a house and I believe the owners lived in the back. Didn't the Ill. Valley Dairy also have a ice cream shop/store to the West of the tracks ? Makes sense to me. But I don't remember going there. We were Super Dairy folks as we save the bottle caps for free Saturday afternoon shows at the Plumb Theater. Loved the cartoon-o-thon at the end of the summer. My buddy won the Schwinn bike and gave it to his sister one year. Great guy!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2016 12:47:30 GMT -6
Makes sense to me. But I don't remember going there. We were Super Dairy folks as we save the bottle caps for free Saturday afternoon shows at the Plumb Theater. Loved the cartoon-o-thon at the end of the summer. My buddy won the Schwinn bike and gave it to his sister one year. Great guy! We saved the Super Dairy caps for the free shows also. That was back when a Schwinn bike was coveted and still made in Chicago. Bought one new in '63 at Van Loons for $50, I still have it.
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Post by dumdave on Apr 7, 2016 13:34:13 GMT -6
I finally got my Schwinn bike at the Ottawa Wal-Mart a few years ago. No one was there to help me, so I just hopped on it and gave it a spin around the store. They chased me down and I said "I'll BUY IT". LOL
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Post by dive61364 on Apr 7, 2016 13:40:00 GMT -6
I remember when I was young there was only a few places in town that sold ice cream because it had to be hand dipped in to smaller containers from 10 gallon cardboard containers. there were very few places that sold ice cream bars back then. the guy had a bike that sold ice cream bars throughout town during the summer. we had milk delivered to the steps in metal boxes. the empty bottles were placed there in the morning with a note stating what we needed.
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