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Ice Cream Take Home Box 1952 Crater Lake 1 Qt. Brick Waxed Box This is a part of Ice Cream history! Up until the early to mid 1950's, if you wanted to take ice cream home for later, you would have to go to a dairy or ice cream parlor and have them hand dip it into small trapezoidal containers like Chinese Food comes in. The Grocers didn't have the capability or room for such an operation. This is one of the first boxes that was sold in a regular grocery store freezer section. Nicknamed a Brick of ice cream because it is the size and shape of a brick, containing one quart of ice cream. It is 7 ½ inches by 3 inches by 2 ¼ inches. Called "Crater Lake" Ice Cream. It was made and packaged by Klamath Falls Creamery, Oregon, and stacked well in the grocers small freezer section. It has phenomenal color graphics of Crater Lake. 
See Photo Below These first ice cream boxes were patterned after the waxed butter boxes of the era. They were only slightly bigger. Back then ice cream came in Vanilla or Chocolate, or sometimes in the spring, Strawberry. So a blank space was left near the top of the front to rubber stamp the flavor. This particular box design was made to open 2 different ways! On the side it says, To dip, open end ~ To Slice, Open Here, with an arrow pointing to an peel open flap the full length of the box to allow the top to hinge open for slicing the ice cream into small squares. Rare Dairy collectable that defined a new era of processed, prepackaged foods. Perfect Unused Condition!  Illinois residents pay sales tax. We're happy to combine shipments where practical to save you $$$. We accept personal checks or money orders, Paypal, etc. To see our list of Unique and Unusual Items on Ebay, Click Here, We catalog new "OLD" items like this all the time! Bookmark us! Check us occasionally. |
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| Esnarf Item . #5789 | Price . . $9.85 |