The Good Humor Ice Cream Bar is created

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.