Tuesday, January 04, 2005

The ice cream men

We had 2 main ice cream vans (70s/early 80s - Belle Isle, Leeds)

1. Walls
The ice cream man was refered to as Wallsy, although this probably came from the brand of ice cream (?)
If I remember rightly he was a grumpy old man and had a really obvious wig that was the target of much piss-taking.
Typical ice cream van shape and product.

2. Basils
Weirder shaped van, sort of pointed and car shaped at the front, with a curvy overhanging bit on the roof. Lots of pink paint. Bit like a rocket lolly.
Don't remember the driver at all. 'Basil' used to sell those screwball things - a plastic inverted cone full of ice cream with an edible bubble gum ball in the bottom.

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