I'm absolutely positive these aired in 1960. I vividly remember being six years old, and my infant nephew would for some reason start crying and screaming hysterically when the image of Softee appeared during the commercial, and I'd jump up and try to block the TV screen. I never did figure out why he had that reaction. I assume he grew out of it.
When I was little, I think the image of Mister Softee kind of freaked me out a little, too, but combined with the sweet little tune, my little brain was able to compartmentalize the odd feeling I got from Mister Softee’s ice cream head and focus more on the music and allow me to keep it together and not cry. I obviously didn’t realize that’s what was happening at the time but looking back on the commercial, now, as an adult, it kind of brought it all back for me and I see how I must’ve learned to cope. So interesting to me. I absolutely love his image now, as it’s pure nostalgia associated with a fun little tune and some great ice cream!
For me Mr Softee has always been an evening thing as it starts to get dark out you can hear the music getting closer from the distance. I love that setting so much. Then seeing it lit and everything around it kind of glows as it makes its way down the street.
When I was a child (1960s) every May to late September, Mr. Softee would come down my street at about 6:30 each evening. It was a treat when our parents would give us the cash to buy some ice cream. Then, about 1970, he raised his prices, and his business in my neighborhood dropped off to about one-third of what it had been.
You're right! We may have ice cream trucks in England, but the part of it where I live in, we don't have ice cream trucks that comes to Streets. But they should do this though.
We still have these trucks in my neighborhood. This year though I've noticed that some of them have been reformatted as "Master" Softee trucks. Softee's head also changed from a wafer cone to a waffle cone.
I remember the first version of the "Mister Softee" song played since I was young at the time when they had those old vintage late 1950's Ford ice cream trucks where they blared out the loudspeaker. I could not find the original clip of the first "Mister Softee" jingle playing when this was hear for a few seconds before they updated to a better version that you hear today. I grew up in the NYC metro area when Mister Softee was driving around during the summer and hear this song, but never gets old. I'm from Brooklyn, NY and I have not been having Mister Softee in a very long time. As for the commercials, they usually ran in New York City since the early 1960's when Mister Softee became popular all over the place. There was one that I remember was Kustard King, one of the few ice cream trucks located in Brooklyn, NY and it was a competitor to Mister Softee, and then Freezer Fresh. These two are still one of the many competitors to Mister Softee.
The Mister Softee song is still present, but yes, the song is completely digitized. I don't know any trucks playing this higher pitched version of the song.
The Mister Softee ice cream truck drives by my neighborhood almost everyday this summer. ALMOST everyday. And let me tell 'ya, the milkshakes from Mister Softee are about as good of quality as Nifty Fifty's! Mister Softee's milkshakes are absolutely delicious!
I grew up in northwestern New Jersey, and never even heard of Mister Softee till we moved to South Jersey in 1985. They had Good Humor trucks where I grew up.
We had a Mister Softee truck when I was a kid. I was four or five years old and would ride along with my dad. My job was to sit in the cab, play the tune and eat ice cream cones. A kids dream.
A regular in the projects I lived in back in the early 60's. What's interesting I noticed as a kid (and had no idea) and now is there's a Civil Defense decal on the truck.
BTW, for those of you have heard the sad news, Les Waas, the guy who did the "Mister Softee" jingle as you can hear in many of the Mister Softee ice cream trucks has passed away today. He was 92 year old, and he will surely be missed and the jingle will still continue in honor of his passing. RIP: Les Haas. :(
Wow..just hearing that Mr. Softee jingle again had me drooling like Pavlov's dog lol!! That is the sound of every CHILDHOOD SUMMER I EVAH EXPERIENCED!! Banana boat (with chocolate sprinkles) FTW!!!!
Never knew they had TV commercials for ice cream trucks. The one that comes through my neighborhood here in Providence RI (Boly ice cream) plays Xmas music over his sound system. Weird to hear "Jingle Bells" and "The First Noel" playing on a hot day in summer.
every time my cat hears the ice cream truck play this song, he growls and hides under the bed. even if i just play the song on my phone. he grows at it.
I was a child in the 1960s and I have the Greatest memories of my friends and I playing outside and the sound of the Mr. Softee trunk turning down our street. We would run to our houses for money and line up on the curb. I lived in Elsmere, Delaware back then.
"No matter what kids were doing outside, the sh*t stops when Mr Softee comes to town. MOOOM THROW DOWN SOME MONEEEEYYY! THE ICE CREAM MAAANNN!" --Eddie Murphy, 1983
Someday, I'll run a ice cream truck business with my schoolfriend or my two younger cousins, going from Street to Street in a truck, serving ice cream, sundaes, milkshakes and other frosty treats to families, seeing them smile, oh, that shall be a good business
How I miss Mister Softee!!! (They don't have him in California, here we have a "wheat grass" truck!) That was the happiest sound a child could hear and signaled the REAL beginning of summer!!!
0:49 is the 1960 Ford Boyertown step van, and I see the Mister Softee graphics on there, but it’s still remains the same, except the sundae graphics was the original, but it got replaced with a another sundae graphic with a spoon dipped in, and the milkshake graphic is still exactly the same, and the Civil Defense graphic was removed. When did Mister Softee updated the sundae graphic? It might be the late 1960’s or early 1970’s I believe, and added “The Very Best” graphic on the front of the truck. Other step vans uses the Olsen Grumman Kurbmaster and Grumman for their Mister Softee ice cream trucks.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh memories! I remember running over every kid on the block chasing after Mr Softee's truck! Today's ice cream trucks only sell store brought garbage thats frozen hard as a rock,no fresh made banana splits or sundaes any more like Mr Softee.
One of my earlies memories of growing up in Jackson Heights in the early 60s is that song and eating a chocolate/chocolate dip cone. 40 odd years later and it still tastes exactly the same!
I remember Mister Softee when I was growing up in the 60's! But I never saw any of the commercials, great to see these! Mind you, they'd have been a whole lot more entertaining without the huge advertising super overtop.
Amazing how slim people were back then. The Civil Defense Logo was on there because as kids back in the '60s we were suppose to encourage our parents to be prepared.
Night time was the best, that magical truck all lit up at night. You could hear it from blocks away,and had plenty of time to get money. 1960's i got first double cone with chocolate and vanilla and sprinkles, it was huge! And then go home to watch The ed sullivan show.
That was the version that I remember when it was played. Couldn’t find the original though, but all you get is a current version that you hear on the streets.
And now, the original Mister Softee jingle has brought back, thanks to the other ice cream trucks that were not Mister Softee, including the one in Toronto, Canada which is Dairy Bell where they are still playing the original jingle. The later versions uses Mark 2 and Mark 4 music box with the same jingle with a different key.
LOL... my friends and I still chase the ice cream truck XD Mister Softee ice cream is the best! I hate it when my parents bring home ice cream, it's just not the same.
1:04 was the ORIGINAL jingle. Last I heard it was in the Summer of 2000 in Brooklyn...and that was after 7 years of not hearing this version of the jingle. Mostly changed after 1992...
They are now using Mark 2 and Mark 4 music boxes that plays the iconic jingle. One of the users on RUclips has the original Mister Softee music box with the jingle on it which is the original which is now preserved in Canada as Dairy Bell. Here is what it sounded like. ruclips.net/video/83f7xj4JmT0/видео.html
We had Mister Softee in Indianapolis in the late fifties and early sixties. Dunno what happened to that franchise but it would make a fortune if it ever came back.. Great banana splits, sundaes, malts, (REAL malts, not just shakes)!!!
I just realised that Princess Cruises has Mister Softee ice cream on board all of their ships. I am going to try their American ice cream on board the Crown Princess next month.
When I was a kid, Mr Softee came thru our neighborhood in upstate NY every day at the same time! You KNEW when he was coming! It was heaven on earth! Now I never see one (living in Indianapolis). I have heard we have Mr Softee here but have not seen 'im! :(
"The creamiest, dreamiest soft ice cream, You get from Mister Softee. For a refreshing delight supreme, Look for Mister Softee. My milkshakes and my sundaes and my cones are such a treat, Listen for my store on wheels, ding-a-ling down the street. The creamiest, dreamiest soft ice cream, You get from Mister Softee. For a refreshing delight supreme, Look for Mister Softee. S-O-F-T Double 'E', Mister Softee."
Anybody else here remember Ice Cream called Push Pops from the 50s and 60s? Ice Cream in a tube with a stick. Push the stick up inside the tube as you eat the ice cream from the top of the tube.
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This brings back a lot of great memories. The past was definately a better time than the present, and it's not wishful thinking. It's a fact. The world sucks now. I pray for Armageddon everyday.
awesome seeing the commercial for the very first time. mister softee still runs around my neighborhood now selling ice cream. im going to chase him when i hear that theme.
My Mister Softee NEVER comes down my street no matter how many e-mails I send, but one day I caught him parked at our fall festival, ordered a milkshake, and asked why he never came. It appears that he is too busy with events like the festival. Pffft yeah right. I'd pay all my money just to see him come down my street. (P.S I live in Virginia so he is the nearest one.) I'ma get that fool for my next party just so I can see him again! Sorry for long comment people.
I remember waiting for the Mr. Softee truck to come down the unpaved road where our summer bungalow was in Keansburg, NJ around 1961. I can't remember how much all us neighborhood kids paid, but it was an every day event we looked forward to after spending the day at the beach😀
We just finished dinner and I was upstairs going to brush my teeth and I heard this weird tinny music, like something from a ice cream truck from days long gone. I looked out the window and there, there was a brand new Mr. Softee truck sitting at a corner with the music playing to attract potential customers. Sadly, no one came out to get a Mr. Softee ice cream cone and the truck drove off into the sunset. Wow, mask wearing is lifted a few hours ago and the Mr. Softee trucks are out like Ants I bet. And that could be a good thing. Quit your jobs and do it. Right. Mister Softee Franchise Cost /Initial Investment/Franchise Income Mister Softee requires a $7,500 franchising fee, and a $40,000 initial deposit for the manufacturing of the branded truck, which ultimately costs $115,000 in total. The Mister Softee Franchise is optimistic that all costs can be recouped during the first year of operation.
Glad to know other people love mister softee just as much as my family does, heck we even use the app to track down mister softee trucks and we call it mister stalkee
Ahhh those 50's and 60's times were so nice, music in that time was really good, cars were also nice looking, people were nice, and life wasn't so depending on technology....
Just a few small problems, like the Cold War, massive social unrest all over the world, the space race, and nuclear proliferation. Other than that, it was a great period of time. In all honesty though, I'd love to visit the 60s and 70s.
at 1:04 minutes in the video u hear the REAL mister softee music and u can clearly hear it's not the same music as the music they play now today on the trucks , i love the Real Tune Awesome!
I always thought Mister Softee was only in New York when I was little.
As a 2010s kid I still love this truck even if it’s 64 years old
We had them in St. Louis when I was a kid. Would love to have them back again.
@@JasonTrain2010 yes that’s true Mister Softee is the best ever but if it was gone the world would go quiet
and philadelphia
I had a mr.softy, and then made a Mr. Softy in my...
Hearing this during a hot summer afternoon was the best
It’s when all the parents got pillaged for change
Man, we used to go scrounging for change as he weaved through the neighborhood!
i miss being a kid sometimes, yk? when i was little, on a hot summer day, at my old house, mister softee would pull up! such fun times
It's creepy at 4pm and 5pm though 💀
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ONE OF THE BEST JINGLES I HEARD AS A CHILD IN THE 1960'S... GREAT MEMORIES!
How old are you?
Old enough to remembert 🙂
@@tyroned532 sir, where did "t"come from
@@muazhaque2594 from being old enough to remember!
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What a sweet sweet memory. I had forgot how beautiful those trucks were at night. Thanks.
My whole life and I never knew till now this jingle literally came with lyrics at one point
Same
@@lokithegamervariant3718 it has lost it's colour
@@jamesmartinandbbccontinuities True😭
Nothing says summertime like Mister Softee! Such memories
He’s still here, in pa
@@thelowfive4873 When You wrote 'pa', I has to assume that You were talking about 'Pennsylvania'.
bakersupreme2010 yeah
@@thelowfive4873 Thanks for clearing that up! Appreciate it!
bakersupreme2010 yes sir!
I'm absolutely positive these aired in 1960. I vividly remember being six years old, and my infant nephew would for some reason start crying and screaming hysterically when the image of Softee appeared during the commercial, and I'd jump up and try to block the TV screen. I never did figure out why he had that reaction. I assume he grew out of it.
thats really creepy
@XxembiebooboobearXx his infant nephew was scared of it
@Xxbabyyoda_loverXx because he was crying...didn’t you read what they said?
When I was little, I think the image of Mister Softee kind of freaked me out a little, too, but combined with the sweet little tune, my little brain was able to compartmentalize the odd feeling I got from Mister Softee’s ice cream head and focus more on the music and allow me to keep it together and not cry. I obviously didn’t realize that’s what was happening at the time but looking back on the commercial, now, as an adult, it kind of brought it all back for me and I see how I must’ve learned to cope. So interesting to me. I absolutely love his image now, as it’s pure nostalgia associated with a fun little tune and some great ice cream!
@Prepz_Abby the guy's ice cream head
I remember! When I was a kid, I circled June 1st on the calendar because that was the day Mister Softee began driving through the neighborhood.
Aww!!
Oh mine came around today on May 5th so.. hm
They came around Rockaway by like, the the middle of spring, that’s when I get them.
Me to
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For me Mr Softee has always been an evening thing as it starts to get dark out you can hear the music getting closer from the distance. I love that setting so much. Then seeing it lit and everything around it kind of glows as it makes its way down the street.
That’s kind of creepy…
The exact Mr. Softee trucks still exist till this day with the same jingle here in New York City. It's an all-time classic.
He’s Dead...
Yup
I live in the Bronx and I hear the truck almost everyday in the summer.
Bruh I'm drinking a Mister Softee milkshake right now
And he probably never will!
Wow! That was a great memory.
They still have Mr.Sof tee ice cream trucks in Western New York.
they had to stop putting them because they ran out of ice cream where we lived there back now though
i have not seen them in years. I live in Rochester NY .
@K J. Also In Pa
Yeah they have them in Long Island
When I was a child (1960s) every May to late September, Mr. Softee would come down my street at about 6:30 each evening. It was a treat when our parents would give us the cash to buy some ice cream. Then, about 1970, he raised his prices, and his business in my neighborhood dropped off to about one-third of what it had been.
Same
Omg you're old asf
I miss Mr Softee. They need to bring him back. Ice cream trucks nowadays are basically ice cream on a stick. Bring him back !!!!
They are still around here in New York City. Hear them every summer.
I miss New York.
+fanny3211 there is one outside my house and my school in Nyc
You're right! We may have ice cream trucks in England, but the part of it where I live in, we don't have ice cream trucks that comes to Streets. But they should do this though.
We've still got him in New Jersey...
We still have these trucks in my neighborhood. This year though I've noticed that some of them have been reformatted as "Master" Softee trucks. Softee's head also changed from a wafer cone to a waffle cone.
+Banaerz Delicious Malk! Now with Vitamin R.
I remember the first version of the "Mister Softee" song played since I was young at the time when they had those old vintage late 1950's Ford ice cream trucks where they blared out the loudspeaker. I could not find the original clip of the first "Mister Softee" jingle playing when this was hear for a few seconds before they updated to a better version that you hear today. I grew up in the NYC metro area when Mister Softee was driving around during the summer and hear this song, but never gets old. I'm from Brooklyn, NY and I have not been having Mister Softee in a very long time. As for the commercials, they usually ran in New York City since the early 1960's when Mister Softee became popular all over the place.
There was one that I remember was Kustard King, one of the few ice cream trucks located in Brooklyn, NY and it was a competitor to Mister Softee, and then Freezer Fresh. These two are still one of the many competitors to Mister Softee.
The Mister Softee song is still present, but yes, the song is completely digitized. I don't know any trucks playing this higher pitched version of the song.
Tmn
I love hearing this coming down the street the summer
Ita bien long its bien 10 yerars
@@SOlosverse bro those commercials were from the 50s or the 60s not 10 years ago
My God! This brings back a lot of sweet and happy memories.
The Mister Softee ice cream truck drives by my neighborhood almost everyday this summer. ALMOST everyday. And let me tell 'ya, the milkshakes from Mister Softee are about as good of quality as Nifty Fifty's! Mister Softee's milkshakes are absolutely delicious!
I would love to go back to the 1950's mr softee truck just to get ice cream for a nickel! :)
It's still in NYC
go to the bronx, there's a bunch of them in the summer
Its still in Queens too.
Mister Softee never left Long Island
If i was a kid in the 50s and 60s and wanted ice cream from Mister softee how much ice cream can i get for $50.00
I grew up in northwestern New Jersey, and never even heard of Mister Softee till we moved to South Jersey in 1985. They had Good Humor trucks where I grew up.
We had a Mister Softee truck when I was a kid. I was four or five years old and would ride along with my dad. My job was to sit in the cab, play the tune and eat ice cream cones. A kids dream.
lucky
They're still around every summer in NYC or at least in Brooklyn/Queens where I'm at...
theyre still around in buffalo ny too
It is yes it is!
Don’t even get me started In the Bronx...
@@marcoandresrodriguez6840 yes there everywhere perfect job for me btw😀
same with nassau county
When kids hear the Mr Softee truck sound, the street becomes the wildebeest scene from The Lion King
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When I was little this use to be my favorite 1930s ad. The memories.
this wasn’t a show lol
this is an ad
@@annoyingtsukasa 0:00 lyrics of this song
A regular in the projects I lived in back in the early 60's. What's interesting I noticed as a kid (and had no idea) and now is there's a Civil Defense decal on the truck.
The Civil Defense graphic was removed by the mid to late 1960’s.
BTW, for those of you have heard the sad news, Les Waas, the guy who did the "Mister Softee" jingle as you can hear in many of the Mister Softee ice cream trucks has passed away today. He was 92 year old, and he will surely be missed and the jingle will still continue in honor of his passing. RIP: Les Haas. :(
He has actually 94 years old.
Happy 60th anniversary Mr Softee.
Dgffgz
Yeah
67th now
Yea
Glad to see that this is still viewable.
Wow..just hearing that Mr. Softee jingle again had me drooling like Pavlov's dog lol!! That is the sound of every CHILDHOOD SUMMER I EVAH EXPERIENCED!! Banana boat (with chocolate sprinkles) FTW!!!!
Never knew they had TV commercials for ice cream trucks. The one that comes through my neighborhood here in Providence RI (Boly ice cream) plays Xmas music over his sound system. Weird to hear "Jingle Bells" and "The First Noel" playing on a hot day in summer.
every time my cat hears the ice cream truck play this song, he growls and hides under the bed. even if i just play the song on my phone. he grows at it.
😂 why I wonder?
I was a child in the 1960s and I have the Greatest memories of my friends and I playing outside and the sound of the Mr. Softee trunk turning down our street. We would run to our houses for money and line up on the curb. I lived in Elsmere, Delaware back then.
"No matter what kids were doing outside, the sh*t stops when Mr Softee comes to town. MOOOM THROW DOWN SOME MONEEEEYYY! THE ICE CREAM MAAANNN!"
--Eddie Murphy, 1983
Say for me too
Someday, I'll run a ice cream truck business with my schoolfriend or my two younger cousins, going from Street to Street in a truck, serving ice cream, sundaes, milkshakes and other frosty treats to families, seeing them smile, oh, that shall be a good business
I wish mr Softee was all around the world so everyone can enjoy his ice cream
How I miss Mister Softee!!! (They don't have him in California, here we have a "wheat grass" truck!) That was the happiest sound a child could hear and signaled the REAL beginning of summer!!!
I don’t know what part of California you’re from. I’m guessing northern, from your wheat grass comment, haha, but here in SoCal we have Mister Softee!
0:49 is the 1960 Ford Boyertown step van, and I see the Mister Softee graphics on there, but it’s still remains the same, except the sundae graphics was the original, but it got replaced with a another sundae graphic with a spoon dipped in, and the milkshake graphic is still exactly the same, and the Civil Defense graphic was removed.
When did Mister Softee updated the sundae graphic? It might be the late 1960’s or early 1970’s I believe, and added “The Very Best” graphic on the front of the truck.
Other step vans uses the Olsen Grumman Kurbmaster and Grumman for their Mister Softee ice cream trucks.
I,have old home movies, with Mister Softee rolling up my Street.
i was watching this when i hear him coming down the street! what luck! great shakes
The writer of this Jingle has recently passed..RIP.
+Michael Boyce Yes, I heard about that. May he rest in peace. :(
How did he die?
Of a Massive Heart Attack,the official Facebook Mister Softee site said.
Michael Boyce nooo😭
Okay...
I imagine the jingle writer had a *NAME.* What was it?
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh memories!
I remember running over every kid on the block chasing after Mr Softee's truck!
Today's ice cream trucks only sell store brought garbage thats frozen hard as a rock,no fresh made banana splits or sundaes any more like Mr Softee.
thats very true
Not unless You move to New York, where They still exist to this day with the same Theme Song as well!
Begging my pops for a dime to get a Mr. Softee cone is one of my fondest memories...he'd hem and haw...but he always gave it to me, yeah.
I had NO idea Mr. Softee had lyrics!
One of my earlies memories of growing up in Jackson Heights in the early 60s is that song and eating a chocolate/chocolate dip cone. 40 odd years later and it still tastes exactly the same!
Wow I've bend eating this ice cream for 14 years and I never knew the lyrics
I remember Mister Softee when I was growing up in the 60's! But I never saw any of the commercials, great to see these!
Mind you, they'd have been a whole lot more entertaining without the huge advertising super overtop.
Master BondoFox and
Sure😂 ur like 13
@@danndidntask And maybe when you grow up you'll be able to write real words too. And make sensible replies.
Thank GOD we still have Mister Softee trucks in New York.
Amazing how slim people were back then. The Civil Defense Logo was on there because as kids back in the '60s we were suppose to encourage our parents to be prepared.
I still get ice cream from this truck
How is that there are going
megatallica 64 same :D
And you want a cokie
SAME
Me too the cones are such a delight
Who in their right mind would dislike this?
Oh it actually had words to it...Down here in the hood rolling thru Philly it's always been tha instrumental😂
I Live in Pennsauken NJ and we have a Mister Softee Ice Cream store and of course Mister Softee comes on wheels durng the Hot Summer months.
I see this ice cream truck like every freaking DAY!!!
Why is the vid so happy even if its black and white and i dont even know what it is 😂
Les Waas, Adman, Dies at 94; Gave Mister Softee a Soundtrack :(
R.I.P mate
was this in 2016?
+Ajay 16 Do you mean the jingle writer's death, the comment on the writer's death or when this ad was released?
Leeschoenbart195
Night time was the best, that magical truck all lit up at night. You could hear it from blocks away,and had plenty of time to get money. 1960's i got first double cone with chocolate and vanilla and sprinkles, it was huge! And then go home to watch The ed sullivan show.
1:03 You don't hear that jingle anymore on the streets. I like this jingle more.
That was the version that I remember when it was played. Couldn’t find the original though, but all you get is a current version that you hear on the streets.
I here that all the time in my area
And now, the original Mister Softee jingle has brought back, thanks to the other ice cream trucks that were not Mister Softee, including the one in Toronto, Canada which is Dairy Bell where they are still playing the original jingle. The later versions uses Mark 2 and Mark 4 music box with the same jingle with a different key.
I saw one near the Fairfax (Va) courthouse on or about 6/17/24.
LOL... my friends and I still chase the ice cream truck XD Mister Softee ice cream is the best! I hate it when my parents bring home ice cream, it's just not the same.
The music at 1:04 is the one I remember when I was a kid. The trucks need to play that again.
I didn't know icecream trucks had companies I just kinda assumed they were random trucks because I haven't seen them in a while
1:04 was the ORIGINAL jingle. Last I heard it was in the Summer of 2000 in Brooklyn...and that was after 7 years of not hearing this version of the jingle. Mostly changed after 1992...
They are now using Mark 2 and Mark 4 music boxes that plays the iconic jingle. One of the users on RUclips has the original Mister Softee music box with the jingle on it which is the original which is now preserved in Canada as Dairy Bell. Here is what it sounded like. ruclips.net/video/83f7xj4JmT0/видео.html
We had Mister Softee in Indianapolis in the late fifties and early sixties.
Dunno what happened to that franchise but it would make a fortune if it ever came back..
Great banana splits, sundaes, malts, (REAL malts, not just shakes)!!!
+m10bob its still rollin 'round in nyc
+nanofrostbite But it is NOT in Indianapolis.....
You should move to Long Island, he was gone for a few years but he came back earlier today.
We also miss A&P and my second employer, Howard Johnsons..I heard they both still have a presence somewhere on the East coast.
I just realised that Princess Cruises has Mister Softee ice cream on board all of their ships. I am going to try their American ice cream on board the Crown Princess next month.
This commercial needs to get remade.
@Chase Mcdowell For that classic song
They don’t do that anymore, except the iconic jingle.
Sugarhill keem: am gonna remix with this one and start off nyc with the best remix 🙌🗣💯
When you could actually afford an ice cream cone. Ah, good times. Not spending almost $3 for a cone, when I can spend $3 on a whole ice cream 1.5 QT
vitfgd
Mister Softee is still pretty cheap. I think a cone's $1 these days...
Where you're at. In NYC it cost like 2.75 for one
***** Man... That fucking sucks!
Tony Peluso its 2.50 in NJ
When I was a kid, Mr Softee came thru our neighborhood in upstate NY every day at the same time! You KNEW when he was coming! It was heaven on earth! Now I never see one (living in Indianapolis). I have heard we have Mr Softee here but have not seen 'im! :(
Feels more like "footage of mr. Softee selling the remainings of his uncles, aunts, and best friends, to children"
I just wanna say right now that this animation style is so cute 🥹
I always love Mr softee's ice cream they were the best when I was a little kid
"The creamiest, dreamiest soft ice cream,
You get from Mister Softee.
For a refreshing delight supreme,
Look for Mister Softee.
My milkshakes and my sundaes and my cones are such a treat,
Listen for my store on wheels, ding-a-ling down the street.
The creamiest, dreamiest soft ice cream,
You get from Mister Softee.
For a refreshing delight supreme,
Look for Mister Softee.
S-O-F-T Double 'E', Mister Softee."
just realizing that the Mister Softee look on the backsides never changed from the past
Honestly, aside from the actual makes and models of the vans, it doesn’t seem like the design of the truck itself changed much at all.
Anybody else here remember Ice Cream called Push Pops from the 50s and 60s? Ice Cream in a tube with a stick. Push the stick up inside the tube as you eat the ice cream from the top of the tube.
WHAT IS THIS?!?
WHAT IS THIS?!!?
WHAT IS MY LIFE?!!!?
Wait, I CANNOT BELIEVE WHAT I AM HEARING!
Tell me this is a game grumps reference
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We still have Mister Softee here in Park Slope/Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. Nothing's changed except the prices of course!
I did not get that ice cream but tomorrow💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💚💚💚💚💚💚💛💛💛💛💜💓💔💕💖💗💘💝💞❤💋👅👄
Same here. There's a kind old lady from Poland who drives the truck in our area, and has been doing it for years.
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Wait this song had lyrics let alone had a commercial this is a NEW YORK TRADITION
Yep! This iconic jingle for Mister Softee is still a true staple of New York City. So did these three commercials.
My grandma loved this
I heard this song so many times on the wildwood boardwalk when i was there a few days ago
BRO TODAY (at 10/29/24) WAS THE LAST DAY HE CAME BUT HE WILL COME BACK NEXT YEAR😭😭
This brings back a lot of great memories.
The past was definately a better time than the present, and it's not wishful thinking. It's a fact. The world sucks now. I pray for Armageddon everyday.
My parents grew up with this, and now I get to grow up with it!!!!!! my local truck came last Tuesday
I see the mr softee passing by my house everyday.
How nostalgic....... THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR 10 YEARS
mr softee has words?
That dad at 1:58 looks like George Jetson
Great memories
awesome seeing the commercial for the very first time. mister softee still runs around my neighborhood now selling ice cream. im going to chase him when i hear that theme.
R.I.P. Mr. Waas from Jay and Trend Magazine Online!
I'd say this "block" of ads were originally seen in 1960 (note the "CD" {Civil Defense} logo on the side of the truck at 1:20).
My Mister Softee NEVER comes down my street no matter how many e-mails I send, but one day I caught him parked at our fall festival, ordered a milkshake, and asked why he never came. It appears that he is too busy with events like the festival. Pffft yeah right. I'd pay all my money just to see him come down my street. (P.S I live in Virginia so he is the nearest one.) I'ma get that fool for my next party just so I can see him again! Sorry for long comment people.
I remember waiting for the Mr. Softee truck to come down the unpaved road where our summer bungalow was in Keansburg, NJ around 1961. I can't remember how much all us neighborhood kids paid, but it was an every day event we looked forward to after spending the day at the beach😀
We just finished dinner and I was upstairs going to brush my teeth and I heard this weird tinny music, like something from a ice cream truck from days long gone.
I looked out the window and there, there was a brand new Mr. Softee truck sitting at a corner with the music playing to attract potential customers.
Sadly, no one came out to get a Mr. Softee ice cream cone and the truck drove off into the sunset.
Wow, mask wearing is lifted a few hours ago and the Mr. Softee trucks are out like Ants I bet.
And that could be a good thing.
Quit your jobs and do it. Right.
Mister Softee Franchise Cost /Initial Investment/Franchise Income
Mister Softee requires a $7,500 franchising fee, and a $40,000 initial deposit for the manufacturing of the branded truck, which ultimately costs $115,000 in total. The Mister Softee Franchise is optimistic that all costs can be recouped during the first year of operation.
Glad to know other people love mister softee just as much as my family does, heck we even use the app to track down mister softee trucks and we call it mister stalkee
I never knew that this was an old thing and I am 8 years old
I honestly life this jingle better
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Huh, I didn’t know it had lyrics...
I’ve saw my Mister Softee in Pennsylvania for the first time!
Ahhh those 50's and 60's times were so nice, music in that time was really good, cars were also nice looking, people were nice, and life wasn't so depending on technology....
64 Why you gotta be mean?
Just a few small problems, like the Cold War, massive social unrest all over the world, the space race, and nuclear proliferation. Other than that, it was a great period of time.
In all honesty though, I'd love to visit the 60s and 70s.
I mean, hasn't the world always been so dependent on technology?
Not Named yeah we weren't so dependent on technology and less people were living longer
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at 1:04 minutes in the video u hear the REAL mister softee music and u can clearly hear it's not the same music as the music they play now today on the trucks , i love the Real Tune Awesome!