Thursday, April 4, 2013

Yummy!

A tin store sign for Dee's Ice Cream c1950 - click to enlarge
Photo: Pejepscot Historical Society via www.mainememory.net
  From the 1940's to 1970 Crystal Springs Farm in Brunswick made Dee's Ice Cream, it was an area favorite.  Crystal Springs Farms is now owned by the Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust and is listed as a National Historical Landmark.
  Delivered throughout Maine to small grocery stores in it's own trucks, Dee's was never able to crack the "supermarket" market.  It was almost impossible to compete with the "little bit" lower prices in the increasingly popular super-markets.  In post-war Maine people wanted to be modern; I think now most folks might re-think that stance (just my opinion).
A Dee's pint, it came in a variety of flavors. - click to enlarge
Photo: Pejepscot Historical Society via www.mainememory.net
Any dairy worth it's salt produced sugar cones and ice cream wrapped up. - click to enlarge
Photo: Pejepscot Historical Society via www.mainememory.net

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