On that ice cream truck at the top, the town I grew up in had one of the first ice cream “trucks” anywhere in the state. Except it wasn’t a truck, it was a car, an old Pontiac streamliner from the forties. This guy would remove the trunk lid in the late spring and load an insulated box into it for the summer. He kept the ice cream, Fudgsicles and Popsicles cold with dry ice. He worked about 4 months of the year and made enough to live on for the other eight. He was doing his daily add a dry ice bock and more stock to the box one day and died of a heart attack right in his drive way. I can’t for the life me remember the guy’s name. He lived next door to one my sets of grandparents.
As an aside, Firefox did not have Fudgsicle or Popsicle in its dictionary.
Last photo in the series… Hazard has a local public radio station, WMMT.
In my youth, spent many a saturday night with the ex GF there doing the last DJ’d show of the night. It was her show, called Overnight Underground and it was basically a showcase of alternative artists at the time when alt was not well known really anywhere (especially in hillbilly country) or that the genre actually existed. Recall one night before we left I sat up the robot on a CD changer to just play random stuff till the sunday morning show came in. Turned the robot on, it started playing Achey Breaky heart… Good to go, locked up the studio and headed back to Virginia… I effed up somewhere (blame the beer left for us from the show before, Kyles Cajun – he always had a full rack of beer for his show). Tuned the station in and discovered that Achey Breaky was on a repeat loop. Damn song played over and over from 1 AM to 8 AM (we did not have a studio key, we locked up and left so no going back), till the Kudzu Coffee Club show started.
Anyway, never heard of that little service station there, guessing its a long gone piece of history, or if it was preserved, I never knew it existed there. Gotta do some digging now.
Nice collection of working trucks.
Not a poser in the bunch.
Thank you Scott, I like old work trucks and very rarely put a jacked up, poser, pimped out modern truck in Old Truck unless it is exceptional and doing some kind of work.
On that ice cream truck at the top, the town I grew up in had one of the first ice cream “trucks” anywhere in the state. Except it wasn’t a truck, it was a car, an old Pontiac streamliner from the forties. This guy would remove the trunk lid in the late spring and load an insulated box into it for the summer. He kept the ice cream, Fudgsicles and Popsicles cold with dry ice. He worked about 4 months of the year and made enough to live on for the other eight. He was doing his daily add a dry ice bock and more stock to the box one day and died of a heart attack right in his drive way. I can’t for the life me remember the guy’s name. He lived next door to one my sets of grandparents.
As an aside, Firefox did not have Fudgsicle or Popsicle in its dictionary.
Last photo in the series… Hazard has a local public radio station, WMMT.
In my youth, spent many a saturday night with the ex GF there doing the last DJ’d show of the night. It was her show, called Overnight Underground and it was basically a showcase of alternative artists at the time when alt was not well known really anywhere (especially in hillbilly country) or that the genre actually existed. Recall one night before we left I sat up the robot on a CD changer to just play random stuff till the sunday morning show came in. Turned the robot on, it started playing Achey Breaky heart… Good to go, locked up the studio and headed back to Virginia… I effed up somewhere (blame the beer left for us from the show before, Kyles Cajun – he always had a full rack of beer for his show). Tuned the station in and discovered that Achey Breaky was on a repeat loop. Damn song played over and over from 1 AM to 8 AM (we did not have a studio key, we locked up and left so no going back), till the Kudzu Coffee Club show started.
Anyway, never heard of that little service station there, guessing its a long gone piece of history, or if it was preserved, I never knew it existed there. Gotta do some digging now.
Nice collection of working trucks.
Not a poser in the bunch.
Thank you Scott, I like old work trucks and very rarely put a jacked up, poser, pimped out modern truck in Old Truck unless it is exceptional and doing some kind of work.
Timeless style.