A place of firsts…
On our way home from Stafford after visiting my aunt, we drove through the Town of Vernon, which brought back a flood of memories and we stopped at Carvel on route 30. Maureen had her standard chocolate soft serve on a wafer cone and I had a kiddie scoop of mint chocolate chip on a wafer cone as well. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this place is the plastic cone grabbers the wafer cone sat in to catch drips.
Carvel is a well established franchise known for their own ice cream product, ice cream cakes and shakes, floats and sundaes. They were established in Athens, Greece and has been around since 1929. The first location in the states was in Hartsdale, New York.
I gave a lot of nice memories from Vernon. I visited my first McDonald’s in Vernon in 1973 and recall a notorious food fight after a bunch of us saw Bruce Lee: Enter the Dragon movie at the 99-cent movie theatre in town. I played golf for the first time at a very nice par 3 course at Golf Land.
The Connecticut Ice Cream Quest 