The coolest vendors in town: Spending time with the area's ice cream peddlers - Gazettextra
Wilton McGhee looked up at the generator chugging away on top of his dark blue, polka-dotted hybrid of an ice cream truck. “It's going to be hot enough today that if we run the air conditioning and the freezers at the same time, we're going to trip a breaker all day,” McGhee said. A hot one, to be sure, but before McGhee headed out to run his truck at a 2 mph crawl through Janesville's Fourth Ward neighborhood, he dished out a $3, chocolate-topped ice cream taco wrapped in a sugary waffle cone. McGhee and his truck, a 1991 UMC Aeromate box truck with sliding vinyl windows on the side, deliver the goods for one of the newest and stone-coldest trends in Janesville cottage industry. His truck, named Em's Treats after his girlfriend and business partner Emily Breidenbach, is one of three mobile ice cream truck vendors licensed to operate by the city this year under an ordinance amendment the city council approved in 2014. The... Mobile vendors say the return of brightly painted, slow-mo ice cream trucks. "When we drive through neighborhoods with our truck's calypso music playing, there are senior ladies who come out to dance and do the twist. Source: www.gazettextra.com
