Apparently in Los Angeles in the 1950’s they had ice cream trucks that instead sold fresh bread and donuts
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I thought this was an urban myth, holy shit.
Yes please
…do you guys not have donut food trucks?
Helms Bakery.
As a kid, I remember the fresh glazed donuts offered off the trucks!
I might need to bring this to my area!
Helms Bakery. They were around in the early to mid 70’s as well. I remember getting lucky enough once in a while to be able to purchase a donut from the local truck.
That’s just a donut truck
Helms bakery trucks came around my neighborhood 6 days a week selling bread, donuts, cookies, candy – the same old dude (“the bakery man” – as he was known) came around for years and years.
So, they weren’t ice cream trucks at all then…
bring this back?
The ice cream man has fucked up, he should be rolling up to the food truck park and charging $10 for a Push Up.
Apparently in LA in 2023 they have ice cream trucks that instead sell a wide variety of different foods. They call these ice cream trucks “food trucks”. Its wild
Great memory of being a small kid in Los Angeles in the 70’s. We called him “the bread man.” He had a unique whistle horn on his vehicle that you could hear from a mile away. That whistle/horn was like the Pied-Piper’s flute for little kids.
Had them in San Diego too. I remember buying candy from them also. Moved away from there in ’70 and haven’t seen one since…
This photo is cropped, the original clearly shows the van parked outside the police station.
Helm’s– they had drawers full of baked goods. Their fleet also had a distinctive horn to announce their arrival.
As a kid in the 70’s growing up in Orange County, I fondly remember the Winchell’s donut truck.
In the Netherlands until the late seventies. And there are still mobile “supermarkets”.
In Mexico they’re still a thing but they’re not ice cream trucks, I’ve mostly seem them in the iconic dad cars (long inside trunk). Generally go around with a very particular song or scene from a really old tv show… El panadero con el pan
So I take it that, like an ice cream truck/van/cart, you flagged him down to make a purchase. We didn’t have that, but we had a baked goods delivery man, that came by on a regular schedule, like the milkman. Bread, buns, rolls, doughnuts, etc.
Would they just drive around with an active deep fryer??,you would definitely need to take advantage of the traffic of that time
God, the smell when they’d open the back doors… the Helms man would park out front of my jr. high school, timed for when we’d get out. That was 1969.
I always wanted one of those coin dispensers.
All of the comments seem to place these trucks on the west coast.
They had to stop doing this because I kept chasing down the trucks and eating ALL THE BREAD. That’s how I developed my powerful egg-shaped physique.
When I lived in Inglewood there was a snack truck that would park on the block and honk 3 times every day about the same time. It was an unmarked white van, like the super creepy kind without windows. Door slides open and sold various Mexican pastries and snacks, probably illegally imported cheese as well. I assume that most or all of the stuff was prepared in a non inspected kitchen. There was also a tamale guy that pushed around a cooler in a shopping cart filled with tamales. He would yell “tamales” in a sing song way as he came around. There was usually a street corn shopping cart around the afternoon, fruit chopper stands, too. This was in the late ’00s.
60 cents a dozen???
Why…that’s a nickel each!!!
*shocked*
1970s used to be 6 for quarter … and not the industrial ones they sell now for 1.50 at Vons.