Quote Originally Posted by grumpyoldlady View Post
If you're going to talk about the vegetable trucks, then you can't leave out the "jingle jingle jingle" Good Humor trucks, and their successors..the trucks with that horrible recorded music.
Hey... don't talk bad about Mr. Softee! Link to the "noise pollution" below. After a while it is obnoxious as a grown up, but as a kid in the 60's, sounds from heaven, IF you had the money.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKNRG9hIxGQ

I remember street peddlers [[barely) and the junk man with a horse drawn wagon. I just must have caught the tail end of that phenomenon.