Life in the Ville by Jimmy Del Ponte

Last week I did a story about the Friendly’s restaurant that used to be at the corner of Cedar St. and Highland Ave. Right down the road near the corners of Cedar St. and Morrison Ave. there was a Dairy Queen. Here are folds memories of that happy place:

“It was across from Morrison. Maybe Warwick?  It became Royal White Laundry I believe.” (Yes)

“The neighborhood hangout spot for us in the seventies and we drove Arnold nuts when he bought it for the Royal White laundry because we wanted the Dairy Queen to stay.”

“It was my first or second job in high school, can’t remember if Jack in the Box was first or second.”

“Yes, we would ride our bikes there in the summer. Vanilla ice cream cones dipped in chocolate or butterscotch.”

“My friends the Hazelton’s lived right next door, great people, and then it became Royal White Laundry.” (great family!)

“Lived next door to Dairy Queen and Royal White.”

“Those were great days. Football on Sunday in the DQ yard. Stick ball on Warwick St. Those were good days!”

“I used to ride there on my purple stingray bike (all by myself, which kids can’t do today) and get a chocolate ice cream cone for 10 cents!”

“Dilly bars were .10 cents”

“Mr. Misty floats!!!”

“We used to put our kids in a red wagon and walk to the DQ. Also, my aunt worked there in the 70’s.”

“I remember walking up cedar street to see the fireworks on the 4th and then to Dairy Queen for ice cream.”

“I lived on Josephine Ave. and use to walk there for banana splits.”

“Actually, Cedar and Warwick – my street. Mostly did not have money to spend there when younger and then later preferred the relative ‘sophistication’ of Friendly’s LOL.”

“Mister Misty brain freeze.”

Thanks to my Somerville social media friends for their quotes.

All this reminiscing has got me in the mood for a chocolate Fribble.