Word: creams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dancing milk cartons. Banjo playing robot dogs singing Dixie over the frozen peas. A petting zoo with live geese and goats. Free balloons and ice-cream cones. Employees disguised as ducks waddling down the aisle. Yes, it's just another happy, cornball day at Stew Leonard's, "the world's largest dairy store," according to Ripley's "Believe It or Not." But where is Stew? Why isn't the 63-year-old retailing legend greeting housewives or patting kids on the head or wearing his cow suit? Well, brace yourself, Ripley. The folks who run the animated megamarket in Norwalk...
FRAUD: Skimming Off the Cream...
...cream. The Harvard Square area of Cambridge is a mecca for ice cream lovers. Baskin-Robbins, Herrell's, Swenson's, Steve's, Christina's, Emack and Bolio's and Toscanini's are all within walking distance...
...American father, a miner, to mark her arrival on the eve of St. Patrick's Day. Eventually she made the nickname legal, but somehow she was always more a Thelma than a Patricia, the kind of girl that in those days was called spunky. Life was marginal -- an ice cream cone was a special treat. When she was 13, her mother died of cancer; her father was claimed five years later by silicosis, the miners' scourge. She nursed them both...
...like it or not, this place makes you a part of it whether you want it to or not. Maybe it's the Harvard aura. Or maybe it's the Herrell's ice cream...