This photo courtesy of www.201.net. I still have a 201 area code on my cell so I am fairly certain that is where they draw the name for this site which highlights the best of Bergen County.
"The kids tag along to help out when the adults come to Terwilliger & Wakefield in Ridgewood to pick up their families’ supplies of milk for the next few days. Here, Mrs. F.W. Tenney receives her two quart-bottles’ worth from T&W staffer Catherine Van Echelpoel; Tenney’s grandson, 3-year-old Richard Long, seems quite pleased with the transaction.
T&W, particularly beloved among locals for its large cones of premium ice cream, was a regular stop for visitors to Ridgewood’s Wild Duck Pond Area, just across East Ridgewood Avenue. The company was later sold to Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream, and the site today houses a branch of Prudential Insurance Company."
Along with T+Ws there was also the Maple House on the border of Hohokus and Ridgewood which we frequented for ice cream in the 1960s, and Van Dykes on Ackerman which is still serving delicious ice cream by all accounts.
Of course during baseball season it was a tradition for winning teams to visit Dairy Queen, where if your manager told them you had hit a home run that day they would give you a banana split on the house.
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I loved T&W! The workers wore the white paper hats, and the "spoons" were these miniature wood tongue depressors.
ReplyDeleteThe Maple House was directly across the street from my pediatrician's office, and Mom always took us there as a reward for bravely facing Dr. Lenihan.
Thanks, Paul, that's good stuff to remember.
Thanks Paul-The memories are great. My first Job was working at the Dairy Queen with a great crew-Dave Porro, Chris Duflocq, Howie Belger, and Matt .
ReplyDeleteThe then owners John and Ada Trainor were the best.
Kathleen
I went to school K-8 in Waldwick, NJ where I recall Terwilliger & Wakefield on the glass half-pint milk bottles we drank from at recess. But the cafeteria had paper cones filled with "Country Club" ice cream. I'm writing a novel set in the sixties; the narrator's dad is a "milkman" for T & W. So I'm practicing a kind of self-hypnosis by recalling the phrases and songs we heard back then. Verisimilitude and all that.
ReplyDeleteMy first summer job after graduating 1967, Fair Lawn HS. The place was a fun place to work! Two brothers were the managers Jack and Norm, You were miserable if you got to work and had Norm that day but if Jack was on that day, it was great! They eventually bought the store from the Terwiliger family when they closed the plant. As usuall, the customers sucked with all their demands! Miss those days, they were fun times!
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