Good Humor truck, 1938
date: label: date made
content: 1938
name: label: maker
content: Chevrolet Motor Car Company
notes: label: Description
content: The Good Humor truck is one of the best known symbols of food vending on wheels. In the early 1920s, Harry Burt, Sr., the proprietor of an ice cream parlor in Youngstown, Ohio, created a chocolate-coated vanilla ice cream bar on a stick with the help of his son, Harry Burt, Jr. Good Humor bars were peddled in gleaming white refrigerated trucks by driver / salesmen in white uniforms; a set of bells announced the truck’s presence. Other businessmen soon established Good Humor franchises in major cities. The Smithsonian’s 1938 Chevrolet truck was used in the Boston area.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Transportation, Road
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content: Transportation
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content: Road Transportation
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Elizabeth D. Dickinson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2000.0264.01
label: accession number
content: 2000.0264
label: catalog number
content: 2000.0264.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: truck
label: Object Name
content: automobile
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 3/4 ft x 5 21/32 ft x 14 29/32 ft; 2.0574 m x 1.7273 m x 4.5467 m
label: Measurements
content: overall: 79 in x 66 in x 182 in; 200.66 cm x 167.64 cm x 462.28 cm