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Ice Cream From a 1940s Scooter on Maplewood Streets

The vintage scooter was in Maplewood on Wednesday, its first day of business.

 

Maggie's Lunchbox is a Fenton restaurant known for freshly baked breads, pastries, desserts and made-from-scratch soups. Now, for something completely different

The brick-and-mortar establishment is hitting the streets on three wheels with homemade ice cream in a circa 1940s Cushman ice cream vending scooter.

Part-owner James Gill, was in a Maplewood neighborhood for the first day of selling from the motorized tricycle.

Maplewood is first because Gill lives here. The city currently bans food trucks, so as long as the scooter doesn’t park it’s OK.

Gill said the cycle came out of Alabama and was restored in Texas.

“There’s only one right now,” he said. “There’s two more we are in the works of trying to get, once this one starts to pay for itself a little bit.”

From the dry ice cooled freezer, Gill sells homemade ice cream sandwiches, and ice cream in chocolate, vanilla, cookies and cream, heath bar, chocolate chip, peach and coffee flavors. "Maggie's Ice Box" will replace the current graphics on the cooler box eventually.

Gill said he’s still working out some kinks. “My throttle pin keeps coming off,” he said.

So listen for the bells and ice cream truck tunes and come on out for treat.

 

 

Related Topics: Maggie's Lunchbox and maplewood businesses

Karen Wood

11:31 am on Friday, July 27, 2012

i would love to try this ice cream. When will the scooter be around Maplewood again??

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Doug Miner

11:37 am on Friday, July 27, 2012

Currently, Maplewood is the only place they're permitted to operate in, so I think they'll be around a lot. I caught him off Marshall, south of Manchester.

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Madeline Gill

11:22 pm on Friday, July 27, 2012

That's my daddy right there! :)

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Bill Henske

1:02 pm on Saturday, July 28, 2012

That is so awesome. Tell him to bring it down to S. City.

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