Today In History

Ice Cream On-A-Stick Celebrates It’s Fifth Birthday Youngstown, Ohio 1926 It’s a Big Birthday for one of our favorite treats, and we cheer Good Humor founder Harry B. Burt, Sr. the owner of an ice cream and candy business in downtown Youngstown, Ohio for creating a smooth chocolate coating that was compatible with ice cream. The story goes, that Burt’s daughter declared the frozen samples too messy to eat. Burt Sr. borrowed a frozen wooden stick from his father’s previous invention the Jolly Boy Suckers. The stick was frozen in to the vanilla ice cream bar, thus creating the “Good Humor” bar. It wasn’t easy, it took three years and a personal trip to Washington D.C. by Burt himself with a five gallon pail of “Good Humor” bars to finally secure the exclusive rights to ”ice cream-on-a-stick.” Within days,12 chauffeur-driven ice cream trucks were selling the bars to kids all over Youngstown. The trucks all had bells, including one from Harry Jr’s. Bobsled. The white clean uniformed look of the drivers, and the unique product has been an immediate success. Expansion is going very well, and you can now buy a franchise for $ 100. Happy Birthday to Our Favorite Afternoon Treat.

Hailing from Ottawa, Canada, Dan Aykroyd made a name for himself as one of the original cast members of Saturday Night Live. Before coming to New York, he honed his comedic skills with the Second City Comedy Troop in Toronto and began his acting career as a student at Carleton University in Canada. Aykroyd’s friendship with John Belushi and their on-screen chemistry brought success to the duo with the popular film The Blues Brothers, which he also wrote. Aykroyd still performs as Elwood in the Blues Brothers Band with Jim Belushi. As screenwriter and a star in the movie Ghostbusters, Aykroyd found movie success again with the now classic comedy in 1984. Nominated for an Academy Award as Best Actor In A Supporting Role for his role in Driving Miss Daisy, he was the first male cast member from Saturday Night Live to achieve that honor. An avid motorcycle enthusiast and music aficionado, he is co-owner of the restaurant chain House of Blues. Aykroyd has been married since 1983 to actress Donna Dixon, and the couple has three daughters.