National Chocolate Ice Cream Day

Blog post by JMM archivist Lorie Rombro. You can read more posts by Lorie HERE.

For the last few years part of my family’s summer routine is celebrating National Food Days, I wanted to make sure that my children had something they associated with summer stay the same this year. It was a beautiful weekend and school ended on Friday, so we decided to start celebrating this weekend, June 7th, which was National Chocolate Ice Cream Day!

Mack Sennett girls promoting Hendler’s Ice Cream, 1919; JMM 1996.148.7.

We headed out to Glen Arm, Maryland to the Prigel Family Creamery (closed on Sundays, so plan in advance), where you can watch the cows while ordering your ice cream. We bought three pints of chocolate and chocolate flavored ice cream and yesterday we had a chocolate ice cream feast out on the back porch. In celebration of summer and ice cream I looked through the collection to share some images from the past with you.

Herbert and Leny Glushakow eating ice cream, c. 1930; JMM 1996.56.9.
Reuben Kramer and unidentified woman eating ice cream on pier, c. 1931-1933; JMM 1994.89.144.
Hendlers Ice Cream truck, 1941; JMM 1995.87.1.
Hendler family and/or the Hendler Creamy, during the ice cream centennial, 1951; JMM 1996.152.26.
“June 7, 1951 Baltimore, Joseph Held, aged 2, (great great grandnephew of Jacob Fussell) who refused to leave Mayor D’Alesandro’s office until he had eaten all of this ice cream;” JMM 1996.152.64.

 

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