TASTEE-FREEZ: Last week when Jim Belardia told us that a Tastee-Freez stand had once stood on East Main Street where the EZ TV and Appliance store has made way for a new auto body shop, we never thought the Tastee-Freez would turn up someplace else.
But it did — in Eldred, where it is now known as the Eldred Tasty Snax.
New Tastee-Freez for RTS photo here. Credit Barb Close
Barb White, who grew up in Duke Center, remembers stopping at the Foster Brook Tastee-Freez when she was a child. She called on Monday to tell us she believed the ice-cream stand was moved to Eldred in the mid-1960s.
She thought that Chuck Bell, of Bell and Bell Construction, actually moved the structure. Since Chuck was the father-in-law of her sister-in-law, Sue McFadden, Barb called Sue in Littleton, Colo., to find out if her memory was correct.
Sue confirmed her recollection.
Barb said she believed the Tastee-Freez was purchased by the Frame family of Eldred.
Since 2008, the ice cream stand has been owned by Barb Tanner, who also confirmed that it is indeed the same building that once stood in Foster Brook, although the Tasty Snax looks significantly different than it did in its earlier days.
When she saw last week’s ’Round the Square item about the ice-cream stand, she said, “That’s our Tastee-Freez!”
Old Tastee-Freez for RTS here.
The name was changed because Tastee-Freez was a franchise. Renovations over the years have changed its appearance, but when it arrived in Eldred it looked much like it did in this old newspaper photo that resides at the Tasty Snax.
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JAZZY REMINDER: The Army Field Band’s Jazz Ambassadors will be playing at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Bradford Area High School Auditorium. The 19-member ensemble will perform numbers from artists including Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, Jelly Roll Morton, Herbie Hancock, Leonard Bernstein and others, in addition to some patriotic favorites.
The Jazz Ambassadors’ mission is to carry “into the grassroots of our country the story of our magnificent Army.” The concert, sponsored by the Bradford Rotary Club and The Bradford Era, is free.
