Yum Yum Ice Cream-- Since 1907

Yum Yum Ice Cream in its first incarnation was sold from a cart beginning in 1909 in downtown Greensboro. An early Greensboro postcard features the ice cream cart in front of the Courthouse. In the 1920's, the business was moved to a free-standing building at the corner of Forest and Spring Garden Streets. Since the location was at the western limit of the city, the owner called the business West End Ice Cream. Around that time, he introduced the ice cream flavor Yum-Yum, a flavor that is believed to have included grapes, raisins, a grain. At any rate, people began saying, "Let's go get some of that Yum-Yum ice cream."  The name stuck and became the official name for the store.

The shop is actually an ice cream factory with the product made in a back room, the old-fashioned way with vintage 1920's equipment. They have had the same ice-cream maker for 25 years now.  He is very picky about the source of his ingredients as well as quality and consistency. The proof is in the taste of the ice cream. Currently, they feature 18 flavors at $2.00 a scoop. The store is, perhaps, equally famous for its tasty, bright red hot dogs which start at $1.00 for a basic dog and cost $1.60 for one "all the way." Yum Yum is surrounded on all four sides by the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Let's hope the university remains a good neighbor and allows this century-old business to continue in this prime location. 

We don't usually do a Tuesday meme; however, today we're posting on Ruby Tuesday! Visit there if red is your color!

Comments

[Magical Mystical Teacher]

The ice cream lovers
gather at Yum Yum, ready
for a sweet, cold treat.

My Ruby Tuesday

[Hootin' Anni]

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ICE CREAM!!!! Great photo.

My RT is posted, I do hope you can find some time to visit---------

[Jane Mitchell]

You can't talk bout Yum Yum without mentioning the Aydelette family.. Some member of the family has been associated with it since the beginning. Greensboro and UNCG owe a debt to them for maintaining this well-known family-owned business in the area for all these years. My own favorite--their chocolate chip ice cream!! JTM

[Bill B]

Icons should always be preserved.

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You can get the raisins good and drunk because there’s no way your kids are going to eat these. They’re NOT cookies, declared the Preschooler. The Toddler spit out his mouthful in solidarity. Excellent. More for me. And if your husband should happen to hate raisins, well then, even better.

[ROSA WALLER SHAMBLEY]

OHHHHHHH, I LOVE THIS PLACE.. I AM 77 YRS OLD AND WHEN MY DAD BORN 1899 DROVE MY MOM AND 5 YOUNG DAUGHTERS TO HIGH POINT TO SEE OUR COUSINS, AND GRANDMA AND GRANDPA. DAD ALWAYS TOOK US BY "THE YUM YUM SHOP" WITHOUT FAIL. THAT IS WHAT WE CALLED IT. IT IS THE SAME PLACE I JUST SAW ON WUNC-TV. I ALMOST CRIED. MY MOM AND US GIRLS ALWAYS LOVED STOPPING BY FOR MY DAD TO BUY US A ICECREAM CONE AT THE YUM YUM AND WHEN I SAW IT I JUST WANTED TO CRY. OFTEN I HAVE THOUGHT OF YOUR STORE. I CANNOT TRAVEL ANYMORE DUE TO HEALTH, BUT I WILL NEVER FORGET YOUR STORE. NOT "EVER." OUR CONES WERE ALWAYS PILED UP HIGH AND COSTS ABOUT 15 CENTS. MAY GOD RICHLY BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY.