Red Truck Ice Cream Rolls Into The Hearts Of Cold Spring [PHOTOS]

COLD SPRING (WJON News) -- Red Truck Ice Cream in Cold Spring has taken a long-vacant historic building in Cold Spring and turned it into a thriving business.  Julie and Bob Sabo opened the shop a little over a year ago at 113 Main Street.

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The building was originally built in 1893 and was a general hardware and furniture store. The store had several owners who ran it as a hardware store up until 2005 but had been vacant since. Julie Sabo says they loved the location and thought they would take a chance:

“Being such a great spot and then having the splash pad right across the street we’d just thought we’d reach out to the former building owners and see if it would be a possibility to lease or purchase the building.”

She says they found the original wall behind some peg board and after hundreds of hours were able to incorporate it into the shop, and they found some handwritten World War Two draft dates on a wall and put a frame up around those to be able to keep the history.

Sabo says the support from the town has been great. She says they started with 6-hard ice cream flavors, went to 14 after about a month, and are now at almost 30. Sabo says the townspeople already have their favorites:

“Two of them I can tell you without even looking at the menu, the Monster Mixer and then the Oreo Cookie Jar are probably by far the most popular over the last two seasons.”

Sabo says they also make their own ice cream sandwiches, offer malts, shakes, and soft serve mixers and they hope to add a mobile truck or trailer for next year so the actual Red Truck can make an appearance at area events.

She says it can be a challenge for her and her husband to juggle their full-time jobs with the ice cream shop but they wouldn’t have it any other way.

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