You don't need to listen for the ice cream truck's jingle for a sweet treat, thanks to the new Mister Softee app. The app shows the locations of dozens of trucks across 18 states. Originally launched ...

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*New York (CNN) — It’s never been harder to be Mister Softee. Once, there were more than 2,000 Mister Softee trucks in 38 states during the company’s peak in the 1960s. Now, there are only around 630 ...

The jingle of a nearby ice cream van is a sure sign that summer is approaching. But you never have to guess when the next time a popular ice cream truck might roll through your neighborhood because ...

Mister Softee isn’t just one of the best names in the ice cream business — it used to be one of the biggest. But the soft-serve company, which got its start in Philadelphia and is now based in ...

The invention of ice cream of course necessitated the ice-cream truck. Once people had the good stuff they wanted it everywhere—on demand. In 1956, the brothers Bill and Jim Conway were working for a ...

For millions of Baby Boomers and Gen Xers, the lilting jingle tinkling from slow-moving Mister Softee ice cream trucks conjures up nostalgic memories. But the realities the company’s dwindling number ...

PHILADELPHIA -- It's never been harder to be Mister Softee. Once, there were more than 2,000 Mister Softee trucks in 38 states during the company's peak in the 1960s. Now, there are only around 630 ...

There’s no sound that sounds more like summer than hearing a Mister Softee ice cream truck's jingle, knowing that a cool, sweet treat is just steps away. For the greater part of the past six decades, ...