Thanks Dickie. Can't seem to remember the designer or router (or the person who constructed the table), but he must have been pretty good.......... Maybe I can find him in this thread, somewhere............... :lol:
Funny you should mention Hodgies.................I managed to find my way there yesterday and, yup, I was directed to go there with a "you deserve a Hodgies for that", from Marty........... Not bad, huh?
For the rest of you; here's Hodgies:
http://www.hodgies.com/aboutus.aspCheck out the video on the home page!
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OK, I'm going to hijack my own thread! When I was in High School, I used to work Summers scooping ice cream. I worked at a place called Wasmaco; it was a competitor of Hodgies (which was then called Delaney's; we're talking mid-60's here). Delaney's became Hodgies in 1984. Before that my mother can remember getting ice cream there when she was a girl (she's 94 today.......and still enjoys a Hodgie Cup of mocha chip; she's been 4 times this season already!), at that time it was called "The Hat". So, Hodgies has been around for 4 generations now.
Here's the story. Both Hodgies (Delaney's) and Wasmaco were located on the "beach road"; the road that accessed Salisbury, Seabrook and Hampton Beaches for those who lived in the larger cities in MA. It used to be bumper-to-bumper around 5:00PM on the weekends and we were located 5 miles from the beaches! People would peel off out of the traffic lines to freshen up with some ice cream at either Delaney's or Wasmaco. The lines were sometimes 25 deep at all of the windows; no lie.
The place the served the bigger cones had more business. We served the bigger cones. The customers really benefitted; can you imagine, two ice cream companies competing for business based on the size of the cones that they served?? It's an ice cream lovers dream come true! But that was 50's and 60's America.
If you watch the Hodgies video on the Home Page, you'll see the ice cream containers that we used to use and that they still use; 20 gallon steel cylinders with sharp-edged tops. We used to nick the knuckles on our scoopping hand fingers fairly frequently, but that was OK, there was always a running water tray just below the window where we could wash off the scoop and our knuckles..............
One day, I served a man a vanilla cone (I think it was one of about 12; we used to have a contest to see how many cones we could hold in one hand, scoop the ice cream and get it back to the customer, we were usually in the double digit numbers of cones.........) About 10 minutes later, he came back to the window and said: "I'd like another one of those cherry vanilla cones". Well, cherry vanilla wasn't a flavor that we carried; we carried just plain vanilla.............. So, I looked down at my finger and, sure enough, it was bleeding. So, that's were his cherry vanilla cone came from............. :o :lol:
Grasping that as only a 16 year old can, I quickly replied: "sorry sir, we just ran out of cherry vanilla..........can I get you something else?"
And now..............back to the track building thread..................................
Allan