Jenny and I stopped by Rite Aid, or the drugstore formerly known as Thrifty's. One of the things they are locally known for is a mini ice cream bar that serves what is still called Thrifty Ice Cream. I remember stopping by after school when I was in junior high for 35 cent cones of rainbow sherbet. The server would use a unique scoop to place a cylindrically shaped block of ice cream on top of the cone, and you had to remember to push down with your tongue while eating, so as to save some ice cream for when you got down to the cone part.
When Jenny moved out here, I got to introduce her to Thrifty Ice Cream. By then, the price had gone up to $0.99. In fact, you can almost date people by their earliest recollections of how much a single scoop cone cost at Thrifty's. For me, that's 35 cents, possibly a quarter, in the early '80s. But I've heard from others prices as low as a nickel or dime.
Well, today, my apricot mango sherbet single scoop cone cost me $1.19, a twenty cent increase from the previous price. And today, I feel just a bit older as another Thrifty Ice Cream price is no more.
Monday, December 24, 2007
Thrifty's Ice Cream - a proxy for age
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60's and early 70's: 5/10/15 cents a scoop
In some stores in the early 80's they tried offering waffle cones and a new scooper (sort of the old fashioned home ball scooper). The idea was to cut costs by rolling a hollow scoop. Didn't sell well and most opted for the old fashioned gun-scoop.
Powerful post.
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