When that familiar jingle echoes down your street, there’s no mistaking it — the ice cream truck is coming. In New Jersey, most people picture a Mister Softee truck, its grinning cone mascot ...

Mister Softee isn’t just one of the best names in the ice cream business — it used to be one of the biggest. But the soft-serve company, which got its start in Philadelphia and is now based in ...

PHILADELPHIA -- It's never been harder to be Mister Softee. Once, there were more than 2,000 Mister Softee trucks in 38 states during the company's peak in the 1960s. Now, there are only around 630 ...

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 ...

For millions of Baby Boomers and Gen Xers, the lilting jingle tinkling from slow-moving Mister Softee ice cream trucks conjures up nostalgic memories. But the realities the company’s dwindling number ...

It was just after 5 p.m. in San Francisco’s Outer Richmond, when a door flew open on 41st Avenue and a person dressed in their pajamas came sprinting out. With a leash in one hand and a purse and ...

There’s no sound that sounds more like summer than hearing a Mister Softee ice cream truck's jingle, knowing that a cool, sweet treat is just steps away. For the greater part of the past six decades, ...