I was always amazed the Good Humor man could reach far back into the freezer and pick out the exact treat you asked for. Those were the best of times.

Living on Long Island in the 70s, I couldn’t wait for the Good Humor truck to come around. The strawberry shortcake ice cream was my favorite.

Late 60s the Good Humor truck broke down on my street. I remember the driver giving us all a free ice cream. My favorite was the chocolate eclair which used to have a solid chocolate core.

I remember these so well! Fuller Brush Man and Avon lady too!

I am 62 and live in germany and l really like this series and to read the comments . Somehow l think life was better in our youth

The highlight of summer was the Good Humor man coming down the street.

We look back fondly about the 'good old days' -- Not that there weren't problems; there were. But overall people seemed a little kinder, kids were allowed to be kids - BUT - they also knew to help around the house, get a job babysitting or delivering the newspaper. Neighbors were more inclined to watch out for one another. And even when money was tight and where I grew up, money was always in short supply no matter how much or how hard we worked; there were times we we could indulge in a little splurge, like a nickle scoop of ice cream at Thrifty Drug store or a ten cents to buy a Good Humor ice cream bar. Amazing isn't it? Now it's too common for a kid of 9 or 10 to demand the latest iPhone or they think their life is ruined --- Yet back then? Ten cents bought the simple joy of an ice cream bar on a hot summer day and we thought we were the luckiest kid in the world.

I love this channel. Brings back great memories of my childhood. Thank you for creating this channel.

I really miss the Good Humor ice cream trucks. Good memories of earlier times. Loved the strawberry shortcake bar !

I love this channel. All the recollections from my childhood are just flooding in. So sorry this millennial generation will never experience that kind of society. I grew up in the 50's so life was still pretty good.

I can remember Pat the ice cream man driving the Good Humor truck into our neighborhood in the early 1970s. 25 kids running a race with two quarters in their hands waiting to get their ice cream. Chocolate fudge cake was my favorite. It had a real chocolate bar center. Today Good Humor ice cream is nothing like it used to be after the accountants and lawyers stepped in to manage.

These are wonderful retrospectives told in a wonderful manner. There's so many companies and services that we have forgotten about that made our lives rich and fun and helped our dreams come true. Companies that weren't mega corporations but we're companies where we knew who worked there and we trusted them and they did their best to do their best for us.

I remember these vey well and was a regular customer during 1950's summers in the Los Angeles area. We also had neighborhood delivery by a bakery company called Helms.

When I was a kid I thought the 2 coolest jobs to have were the Good Humor man and the guy with the local Sabrett Hot Dog Cart.

This takes me back to the 60s when many of the old refrigerated trucks were disappearing. I loved it when the GH man would open that freezer door I was standing next to on a hot summer day and feel the cool air as he handed me my Bomb Pop jr, Ice cream sandwiches and big dippers.

In the 60's my baby sister (~4yo) would hear the music from the truck and start screaming "the ice cream cone!!!". We would give her a few coins so she could buy a cold treat.

I fondly remember the days of when my mom would buy me & my brothers ice cream treats from the Good Humor man during the Summers of the 70's.

I remember hearing that jingle and running down my street hill for that creamy frozen treat. My favorite? The orange sherbet push up.

I was never a big fan of good humor man ... I was a Mr Softy boy .. loved my Mr Softy ❤

While the man was selling ice cream bars out the back of the truck, I would sneak around to the front of the truck, climb up into the cab, pull on the bell cord and ring the row of bells that hung there. For a second or two, I as a four-year-old was as popular and powerful as the Good Humor man!

In Brooklyn, NY in the ‘50’s we had Good Humor and Bungalow Bar. Both were great. 15 cents for a cone or ice cream bar. BB would take 15 ice cream wrappers in exchange for an ice cream. We scoured the streets finding every wrapper possible, clean them up and get a free ice cream. Those men were so patient with we kiddies. It was a very nice, simpler time. Very happy memories.

The Chocolate Candy Crunch....after eating the ice cream the whole center was the best chocolate candy ever!

Living in Miami, Fl during the 60s and 70s the Good Humor truck was a blessing on those hot days.

When I was about 5 years old and looking at the decal that the Good Humor man had pasted on the side of his truck, I always thought it was magic when he stuck his hand inside the side of the truck and he always pulled out exactly what I asked for from the menu. And he always had a lot to choose from. 🍫🍦🍨🍧🍫🍨🍧🍦

Chicago South Side 1966 to 1974. We had both the Fords with the separate freezer section with small access doors and the panel vans. Usually we could only afford the lowest cost cups or treats. Once in awhile we got the fancy eclair bars or similar.

They had the cleanest trucks in the biz. The freezer compartment was chilled with dry ice. No loud compressor.

I remember well the Good Humor trucks of the 1950s with the small access door in the back, the row of bells, the uniformed attendant and the chrome change dispenser on his belt. That was real personalized service back then, just like home milk delivery in insulated porch boxes and Charles Chips home delivery. Now you're lucky if you can find an employee when you're inside a grocery store.

"Here comes the Ice Cream Man!" We could hear the jingling bells two blocks away! Mom would dig out $.30 for my sister and I and we'd almost break the screen door running for the street where a crowd of kids were already waiting!

I remember when I was growing up on the Northeast side of Detroit, Michigan and I would hear the bells of the Good Humor ice cream truck coming down the street. Then I would want a ice cream cone, ice cream sandwich, or a popsicle or something else. I was born in 1957.

I recall in our neighborhood in Lakewood, LA County, the Good Humor man also sold various trading cards, which my friends and I collected. Regarding the ice cream, my faves included the 50/50 (popsicle outside, vanilla ice cream inside), popsicles in various flavors including root beer, fudgesicles, drumsticks, and Eskimo pies. In addition to Good Humor, Helms, Avon, Fuller Brush, Kirby vacuums, American Seed Company, etc., we also had Ray the milkman who drove a red and white refrigerated truck and delivered Carnation milk in glass bottles and other dairy products every morning to our backdoor. Our gate was never locked. My Great Depression/World War II-era parents were usually up so they invited Ray in for a cup of coffee, brewed in an aluminum percolator with a glass top on a four-burner white & black gas stove, and sent him a Christmas card every year. I didn't know it at the time, but looking back I guess he was part of our extended family. My how life has changed. Paraphrasing the science-fiction author Robert A. Heinlein (Stranger in a Strange Land), nowadays I feel like a strange man living in a strange land.

Ice cream trucks, pay phones.... and the only computers to be seen were in sci-fi movies. ( Or maybe at NASA, when some space launch was televised. ) Music was either live, or came from a radio, disk of black plastic, or some form of tape. TV showed old black and white movies every afternoon after school, but most of your time was spent outside with friends. Yeah, I think I might see a cure in all of that, for what currently ails us...

Omg remember chasing this guy down when I was very young.

I remember c. 1960, we kindergartners were absolutely forbidden on pain of god knows what terrible punishment from even getting close to the Good Humor truck that parked next to the grade school every warm day. It still ticks me off every time I drive by the old school building.

The toasted almond and chocolate eclair were my favorites…pure, magic memories from my 1950s childhood.

Call on your KZfaq video series a tremendous asset to educating the public about part of America’s history. The very important part of America’s history. Keep up the good work and God bless. I’d love to see these videos used in schools.

My husband kids and I love almost anything good humor. We have two favorite the strawberry bars and the chocolate bars on the stick.The ones with the tiny bits of crunch bits on them.

As a kid in Chicago, who doesn't remember the Good Humor trucks with their bells ringing, even when I lived in Arlington Heights, we used to have the ice cream truck coming down the next block from me, it was Jolly Roger ice cream, and you could get soft serve ice cream, in fact I have a really funny story about when the ice cream truck came down the street and my 2nd oldest sister wanted to get ice cream, my father had said no, we have ice cream, my mom was like, come on, let her get ice cream from the truck, he got so pissed he put his fist through the wall, she did ice cream, but my father didn't quite need to go that far. The ice cream bar that is a big favorite from Good Humor is the toasted coconut bar, you can't find those anywhere today, not Walmart, nobody seems to have them so it's a memory from the past. It's a pity that today's kids aren't going to know what life was like in a time like the decades of the forties through the seventies, because the next generation just won't have a clue of anything on account of having a cell phone in your hands and having to REALLY become so PC it's just crazy, but welcome to the world!!!

Oh! This is a childhood treasure!! I love the vintage photos of the vintage trucks!! LUV It!! Thank you so much!! I remember the truck initially coming twice a day (in NY). First in the afternoon and then at about 8-8:30pm. Years later when another ice cream truck came just in the evening. I remember the lights and the bell. Some time after that no more, but then one day saw it at a waterpark in Riverhead, NY.

We had one in New Market late 50s 60s maybe early 70s Mr Price was his name if I recall all ways dressed in White from head to toe

I’m 60 now, but this video brings back A LOT of fond childhood memories! Thanks for sharing 👏🏼

Even as a kid, I was always so busy looking at things from the past, that I missed many wonderful things that were in the present. Of course that was during times gone by, and I still long for those things that are now the past, but the difference is that there is really not much I am missing that exists today.

We loved the Good Humor man. Listened for his truck this was Suburbs of California in 1960’s. Just fun going out with all your friends. Then my kids came around in the 70’s and they loved it too.

The sound of the freezer doors opening and closing was the greatest sound ever. If I’m right the coconut bars were 10 cents each. We would always get ten because we had a large family. The driver would always react in the same way -TEN!!! He’d reach in and give us a box of ten. We’d pay with a dollar and cheerfully run back to the house. Simple things were the best.

Grew up in Detroit in the 50s. Good Humor was outrageously expensive and a rare treat. They had high tech popsicle-type treats as well as great ice cream. My favorite was the banana split ice cream bar. At 73 I still miss them.

I want to go back to those days again. Be young and watching him come down the street with all my friends.

Back in the Summers of the 60's my friends and I couldn't wait for "The Goodie Bar Man" and we could hear the chingle, chingle, chingle bells from his truck. I was alergic to ice cream but I always got the Italian Ice. Everyday he came we were just as excited and happy to see him and get our treats. We played and played all day. Lots of great memories. Thanks for sharing this moment in time.

I lived in trailer parks until I was 13, from 1952 to 1965. Good Humor was the best part of summer for me.

Loved the Toasted Almond Bars....

I remember hiding behind some hedges in my moms back yard and yelling wait a minute. He got out three times and finally found me hiding. He said he would tell my mom unless I bought an ice cream from him. Lucky I had a dime in my pocket. Last time I did that.

We still Love the Good Humor Popsicles and just to see that truck pulling up when you were at the park or something I remember when the ice cream truck would sit right on our street and mom would always let us get our favorite thing she would stand and watch out for us to make sure us kids were safe lol thanks for this fun memories. 😘😊

i was born in youngstown ohio.. and i still live here.. thanks so much for the amazing videos you upload. i truly enjoy you channel. thank you..

I loved Good Humor as a kid. I'd listen for those ringing bells every summer afternoon and could get to the sidewalk from anywhere in our house in under 5 seconds! 😋👍

We had one that would come through our neighborhood. Mom and Dad liked their Toasted Almond. I usually got a Strawberry or Chocolate Eclair.

The Good Humor truck and going to the drive-in with my parents are among my happiest childhood memories.

The neighbors’s dog would hear the bells long before the kids and would go sit by the curb. The GHM would stop and the owner would buy him a Dixie cup.

My parents fled the city and bought a house in Massapequa on Long Island in 1972. Through the rest of the 70s and into the early 80s, we had both the Mister Softee and Good Humor trucks coming through the neighborhood. Mister Softee came by every day and Good Humor only once in a while. I preferred Mr. Softee just because I love soft ice cream. I loved watching the way the driver would twirl the cone or cup while filling it. From Good Humor, strawberry shortcake bar were my favorite; toasted almond bars we're second choice if he didn't have any strawberry shortcake. We have an ice cream truck coming through the neighborhood almost every day through the whole year (we're in Florida now; land of eternal summer 😉🥵) but it's just not the same. My grandchildren like it fine but they don't know from "real" ice cream from Good Humor and Mr. Softee trucks 😂. Thanks for the blast from the past!.😄

Love your histories! Helms Bakery Trucks would be interesting as well.

In the early seventies we couldn’t wait for Good humor truck to make it to our street . We would hunt him down to get our ice cream before he ran out getting to our neighborhood. Everyone back then loved the ice cream truck !!

I always liked the Candy Centered Crunch. They don't make them anymore. Those were phenomenal.

I remember in the late 60s in San Jose the ice cream truck would come around while my dad was painting the house. My dad would reach into his stone colored cotton twill pants and give us kids pennies to buy ice cream. When my dad finally gave us gray money (Nickles and dimes) it was real special. Kids nowadays take those little things for granted.

I am so glad I was a kid of the 70's and 80's

We also had the Awrey bakery trucks. OMG we bought baseball and football cards off those trucks. I am so glad I am in my Mid 60's. We would walk on the trucks, by candy, other sweets AND I remember the Giant Topps Baseball cards. WOW. Willie McCovey I can see him now.

Manhattan Beach about 1960. I was four years old. My favorite Good Humor Ice Cream Bar was the Sidewalk Sundae! At this time, the trucks didn't use the bells mounted where a rear view mirror would be. The Good Humor Man signaled his approach with a recorded jingle. I was one of the poorest kids in the neighborhood, and rarely had any spending money. One day I flagged down the Good Humor Man... Selected my preference, and held out some coins to pay. COINS?! Nope, they were slugs my older brothers had found at a construction site. The Good Humor Man accepted my slugs, and I still got my ice cream bar.... But before we parted, He said in the nicest way possible, that next time, he would prefer that I pay for the bar with real money. Very kind! I will never forget the kindness he extended to me.

The jingle summoned every kid on the block like magic.

You really crank these things out.

I`m in the video cool, I have the 1952 Chevy Truck that I restored and sold Good Humor Ice Cream for three years. I had a great time with Good Humor Truck and meeting all kinds of people. I had the bells which was really cool. And wearing the complete uniform just made even more cool for the people that wanted to see the truck and get a picture with me . I`m building another truck a 1953 chevy with same charm .

I grew up with Mr Softee, which was awesome! We lived on the 2nd floor, and as soon as we heard that music, I'd run downstairs and catch the money my grandmother tied into a handkerchief. I always got a butterscotch sundae, Gram pineapple and my mother, hot fudge. Good times :-) By the time I was in high school (70s), we had a Good Humor guy. Nice old man with the white uniform and a small truck. I miss Mr Softee, but the Good Humor eclair was great!

We didn’t have Good Humor - we had Pete. An independent operator - one truck. Pete knew us all and every kid knew Pete. He had his own bells sound that was distinctive - I don’t remember any competition. Westmont NJ. 1950s and 60s. I wish I could remember more.

That Change machine on his belt. Classic. Memories. Weston burgers. Howard Johnson’s.

Ice cream trucks as a kid is a wonderful memory

Good ice cream and great memories! Thanks.

The sound the back door made when the driver slammed it shut ( sort of a dull thud and a clank ) is forever etched in my mind . Great video . Peace ,Be Free .

My mother always made sure we didn't miss the Good Humor man, he got to be good friends with my parents, and when me and my brothers didn't have any money, he would never let us go without an Ice Cream. I will never forget those thick Black framed glasses he wore.

we didn't have Good Humor trucks in Albuquerque, we had Ice Cream Trucks roaming the streets, we also had Itsa Italian Ice. shaved ice with lemonade and lemon slices in the ice. they did raspberry and strawberry too, Lemon was my favorite. we always got one if my mom's solf ball team was playing down by the zoo in Tingley Park

Doesn't anyone remember Mister Softee- Dairy Queen type soft serve? Another one was Dum Dum- popsicles. Every kind of popsicle you could imagine - Seven Up, root beer, pineapple, etc. They came in two pieces. And there was another one that I cannot remember the name of -my favorite- featuring crystalized Italian type ices. They had the shape of an upside down cone. The bottom was a stick and when you finished there was a plastic toy inside of all different fantastical characters. These all came to my Akron area neighborhood in the 60's. My brother and I would be so excited, running as fast as we could, afraid we couldn't stop the trucks in time. What a happy childhood memory

We kids would be playing in the street when we could hear the little tune from a block over. Everybody runs back into the house to tell mom the good-humor man was here ! You were never denied. Everybody got 50/50's or drumsticks. Not me. They never lasted. I used to call my choice 'long-johns' - That long rainbow colored popsickle. During the summer you might hear him even after you'd gone to bed.

Grew up on LI in the 50s and 60s. Favorite was the cream sickle, toasted almond. And the dual flavored double fruit pops.

My brother rang the bells on the truck..... pulled the rope so hard the bells fell off.... man' that Good Humor man was made as hell.....

You choose such great topics, thanks.

I had a cousin who worked for Good Humors . She drove the truck around suburbs in Pittsburgh

Don’t remember any Good Humor trucks in my neighborhood in the 60s in southwest Cleveland suburbs. We had “Uncle Marty’s” going thru the neighborhoods.

Eddie the Ice Cream Man here in central NJ. Great Times !!

Childhood summertime always included the Good Humor truck mid-afternoon. Also had "Bungalow Bar." Any Queens, New Yorker kids remember them?

That peanut fudge looks good. I thought Reese's was the first that mixed chocolate and peanut butter.

Wait a minute ! the opening of that thick door with ice vapor going down ...

I remember as a kid in the Bronx in the 60s and 70s, we had an uncle dykies ice cream truck with a big, plastic, tiger on the top. I loved the big 5¢ slabs of frozen taffy you could get from them. We used to slam them on the side of the truck so we could break them up to make them easier to eat.

In southern California during the 1960's it wasn't summer until the Good Humor Ice Cream Truck came by! In our neighborhood Good Humor had a rival that would come by almost the same time...... The Dairy Queen Ice Cream truck!!

The strawberry shortcake bar is my favorite! Would be cool to have these around instead of the standard ice cream truck for nostalgic purposes

Growing up in flint Michigan during the 70's we didn't have the good humor man, it was a teenager pushing a 3 wheeled cart full of ice cream and dry ice and he had to reach in up to his elbow to get what you wanted. You could hear the bells for blocks and every kid would go running back home to beg for change

I was an ice cream man for 3 years. Every one loved me 🤠

I remember the good humor man with his change machine on his belt at the cook county forest preserve from the early 60s to the 80s same person .

I always love the coconut ice cream bar. It was like toasted almond but coconut. Yum! miss it big time

Grew up in the 70’s remember ice cream coming in the light summer evening and all the neighborhood kids there and our parents drinking wine on the street socializing. The best times. Not like today. These current times suck!

I really miss the Good Humor ice cream trucks! It wasn't just about the ice cream, great as that was. It was about all the kids gathering around, the friendly truck drivers who knew us, and being able to get your favourite flavour if you had some change, even if your parents weren't home. Buying Good Humor in the store could never be the same. 😢

One of my very earliest memories was running outside with my money in my hand when I heard the Good Humor bells...and having him not stop for me. Oh, the angst of the two year old passed by! Lucky for me, it stopped two houses further down for some of the older kids and I got my ice cream bar anyway.

My favorite was the popsicle bar. Its orange push up stick was my sister’s choice. One day I rushed my mom telling her that the Good Humor Man wanted to talk to her. This was of course my trick to ask her buy me my favorite treat. It was a funny situation when my mother came along asking the Good Humor Man why he wanted to talk to her. His reply “lady why should I want to talk to you?” uncovered my trick…

I used to assist our neighborhood Good Humor man, Steve on his truck in '70. It was a blast.

We never had Good Humor trucks in my neighborhood...we had a soft serve truck...yum. And they always came right around dinner time so we had to swear to eat whatever Mom made for dinner.

Fond childhood memories. Lovely documentary. Thank you. Wishing everyone reasons to be of good humor in these tense times -- a frozen treat helps. 🍦

As kids we could hear the ice truck from what we thought was miles away.