Seeing this sign on South 7th, I'm taken back in time picturing "Flo's Ice Cream Sandwich" shop as a gathering place for the neighborhood. I imagine people walking down in the evenings to buy a cold-something for dessert and sitting on benches outside, or at booths or at a counter inside, enjoying their sweet treats while visiting about the heat or the brand new baby that so-and-so down the street just had. Comparing notes about the new doctor in town. Saying hello to her and her family as they arrive. Children would be skipping rope, or likely squabbling over whose turn it was to spin and whose to jump. It's strange and a bit nice to think of buying just one ice cream sandwich at a time, instead of for instance a pack of eight at a Big-box store.
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