RUNNEMEDE, N.J. − Zoe Green missed the sound of the Manapua Man, and how the trucks, with their twinkly music and icy treats and candy would bring kids out of their houses and bond neighbors on ...

But today, the number of ice cream trucks on the road has shrunk — and so has the demand for music boxes. These days, the company only produces 300-400 boxes per year.

Ice cream truck music will make children pop out of houses like critters in a Wack-a-Mole game. So truck operators choose their songs carefully.

Boone officially released “American Heart” on June 20, and along with it, a music video for the new song “Mr. Electric Blue” that at one point shows the singer working in a pink ice cream truck with ...

The music-box tunes, the slow cruise, the icy-sweet reward for chasing them down. Nothing feels more sum-sum-summertime than scoring a frozen treat from an ice-cream truck.

10. Chipwich. I didn’t want to choose favorites, but it has to be said: The Chipwich is the best ice cream truck treat of them all. When you eat a Chipwich, you’re not forced into the old ...

RUNNEMEDE, N.J. − Zoe Green missed the sound of the Manapua Man, and how the trucks, with their twinkly music and icy treats and candy would bring kids out of their houses and bond neighbors on warm ...

Ice cream trucks and carts, from the bike-and-cooler rig Green pedals in Hawaii to the Fudgy Wudgy Man (now men and women) who walk the beaches along the Jersey Shore to the Good Humor and Mister ...

In the end, it turned out that ice cream trucks equipped with music boxes sold almost twice as much ice cream as trucks with just bells. That’s impressive work. Around 1960, Nichols Electronics ...