A Carvel ice cream stand something like the one in Croton-on-Hudson. The stand closed sometime after I graduated high school in 1981. The town now has two very good ice parlors in each section of town
When I think about returning to school, I think about time spent at the Carvel ice cream stand in the Harmon section of my town which is called Croton Harmon station on the Metro North and Amtrak rail road. Croton is one of those small American towns that never became overrun by fast food restaurants. As long as the weather remained warm enough, the Carvel stand served as middle school and early high school hang out on Friday and Saturday nights; those years in our lives when you were cool but car less. I lived a 15 minute bike ride away from the Carvel stand on the opposite side of town. As I rode closer and closer to the stand on my bike, a glowing light grew brighter and revealed droves of classmates eating ice cream cones, flying saucers (ice cream sandwiches), ice cream Sundays, root beer floats, and lots of flirting. In reflection, the Carvel provided a space for Croton youth just entering purity to flirt. That Carvel stand in Harmon remains linked in my mine with my middle and high school years and some my first attempts to talk to young women. Tom Carvel was a Greek immigrant from Athens who started the business in 1929 in Hartsdale, New York not also in Westchester County where I grew up. The product is available all over the country now! Here is a link with more history about him and the company: http://www.carvel.com/about_us/history.htm
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