[milwaukee-electric] Re: Oldest custard stand

[Y Marti]

Ice Cream Parlors have been in the city since at least the mid 1860s.  
Later drug stores commonly had soda and ice cream fountains which were  
always popular. Frozen custard has been available since the 1880s and  
probably was found at these ice cream parlors.

I don't think Clark's or even Gilles ever sold only frozen custard  
although it has been a specialty of their drive-in restaurants.  
Clark's was actually more of a restaurant that served everything and  
back in the 30s was located at Capitol & Teutonia. Even Gilles is more  
known as a drive-in restaurant than solely a custard stand. More small  
shops and drive-ins started to sell frozen custard by the late 1930s  
and 1940s as specialty machines became more readily available.

The first manufacturer of ice cream was Mansfield Ice Cream company  
which was established in 1907. Before they made it in a large scale  
facility it was made in small quantities directly in the parlors.

Yance

Quoting Gary Schnabl <gSchnabl at SWDetroit.com>:

> I tried to do a web search to see if there might be some useful
> information about Milwaukee's oldest custard stand. Came up with nothing
> much.
>  From my recollections of the 1940s and 1950s, those mom-and-pop stands
> were sited about every mile or closer. For me, one in the 2700 block of
> Capitol was 15 blocks from home, but one in the 4300 block was only a
> block away. So, my parents would go there or have me walk over and get
> some deep-fried fish, fries, ribs, chicken, phosphates, and stuff--even
> custard--on Fridays, etc.
>
> The Wikipedia mentions that a custard stand on Coney Island was the
> first such custard stand in 1919. Seeing that frozen custard was so
> plentiful in my youth, there must have been a stand predating 1919 in
> Milwaukee.
>
>
> Gary
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