National Ice Cream Day

Today is National Ice Cream Day!

I have two memories tied to National Ice Cream Day and both involve my radio days. Both were when I worked at B95 in Flint.

The first was when I was working mid-days. I wanted to do a live broadcast from a local ice cream place. I put the bug in the sales team’s ear and they were able to find a little place called Ron’s Pizza and Ice Cream. It was a place I was unfamiliar with, which is sad because I was so close to where I was living.

We did the entire shift from Ron’s. They had pizza specials and a free cone for the first 100 people who came out. They had picnic tables where folks could sit and there was a steady flow of listeners who stopped by throughout the five hours we were there.

Their pizza was delicious and the ice cream scoops were huge. I took the family there often when we lived in the neighborhood. Sadly, they closed some time ago, but that broadcast remains one of my favorites.

The second memory was from when I was doing mornings with Steph. We hooked up with the Frosty Boy in Ortonville. If memory serves me right, we did a two hour broadcast from there after our morning show.

The Frosty Boy was known for their ice cream and their amazing broasted chicken! I remember we had this huge box truck that we took to the remote broadcast.

They had their mascot (a chicken) out waving people in at the curb. I remember Steph and I got a picture with that chicken! She probably has it somewhere.

We had such fun talking to listeners that day. I remember they gave us Frosty Boy T-shirts, which I seemed to wear a lot, as it is in a lot of old pictures.

I think they have new owners now. They building is the same, but they painted it and changed the name to Frothy Girl. I’m not sure if they still have broasted chicken.

I hope to take the kids out for ice cream later to celebrate.