“It’s sad to see this place leave,” his dad said.
Photo: Josh RosenĪmezcua’s son Moses, 11, an aspiring YouTuber, documented their trip for his family’s YouTube channel, while enjoying his personal favorite, a strawberry cheesecake parfait. He’s pictured above with his children, Antonio and Syney, both 10. Abraham Amezcua, 58, has lived in Wilmington all his life, and fondly remembers coming to the Foster’s Freeze with his dad in the 1960s. All dug into their favorite Foster’s treats. A big fan of their banana splits, he stopped in to reminisce Sunday with his sister Lupe, 56, and his three children. They have many loyal longtime fans in town, he said, especially among the crews who work the ports not far away.Ībraham Amezcua, 58, has lived in Wilmington all his life, and fondly remembers coming to this Foster’s with his dad in the 1960s. If it wasn’t for the community, this might’ve actually been the end for Foster’s in Wilmington.The cost of opening their new building far exceeded what he’d anticipated, co-owner Ket said.Īt one point, Ket and his wife, Stephanie, contemplated just letting the business shut down, but his customers urged him to keep it open. I still have one of the original milk shake machines and two tin milk shake cups that they used to mix up the shakes.A handmade sign hands on the wall of the Wilmington Foster’s Freeze on Sunday, Oct. The store was eventually purchased and run by my grandfather's sister and her husband, Laz and Marie Paul for many more years. Eventually during that decade, they sold all of the stores except the Redondo Beach store which my grandfather, John Poe, continued to run until his death in August 1962. As part of the settlement when Compton Dairy Products was sold to investors in 1951, my grandfather and father were given stores in Arcadia, Santa Monica, Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach, Redondo Beach, Huntington Beach and Laguna Beach. The pineapple shake has been my favorite shake since I was a kid. Let's remind ourself that we don't have to overspend in order to treat ourself to our favorite desserts. Totally worth the extra nickle (especially since I wasn't the one paying for it.)Īccording to my father, Myron Poe, who along with his brother, Bob Poe, and father, John Poe owned Compton Dairy Products that made all of the "soft serve" mix for all of the stores from their inception through the '50s, George Foster got a west coast franchise from Dairy Queen with the right to call these stores whatever he wanted thus "Foster's Old Fashioned Freeze". Fosters freeze, where you can get a banana split and pineapple shake for 11. I still remember how good that last bit of chocolate pooled at the bottom of the cup tasted. I think the small cups of ice cream were only a nickle, and for another five cents they'd pour some chocolate syrup over it and call it a sundae. You'd eat the ice cream from the cup with a small wooden spoon- more like a little flat paddle, really- because plastic spoons,if they existed yet, were probably too expensive. My parents liked getting ice cream there because you could have it served in a cup, instead of a cone which I was more apt to spill and which would get drippy and messy if I didn't eat the ice cream fast enough. I remember frequently going to a Foster's Freeze on San Gabriel Boulevard in San Gabriel, when I was no more than four or five years old. The first store of that name opened in 1940. Wasn't the Torrance Fosters Freeze used in the second Charlie's Angels movie?įoster might have introduced soft-serve ice cream to Los Angeles, but the first soft-serve machine was developed in 1938 by J.F. This picture (undated, by Jim Melashem, in the Los Angeles Public Library collection) shows the Glendale store, across the street from the Mobil station. The Save Historic Old Torrance Association (from whom I borrowed the top picture) claims that this Fosters is the 3rd oldest in Los Angeles County, behind nearby Hawthorne's and Glendale's. If store #23 opened only a year later, either soft-serve cones were addictive or business start-ups cost a lot less in those days. in Inglewood, introducing the world to soft-serve cones. According to the company website, George Foster opened the first Foster's Freeze opened in 1946, on La Brea Ave. The place actually opened in 1947, as store #23 of the Foster's Freeze chain. Especially since, as the Breeze revealed, a demolition permit was issued only a month ago at the property owners' request, but was quickly rescinded. Where does that leave South Bay residents who crave an occasional orange freeze? Well, the new proprietor says nothing will change, and that's good. The Daily Breeze ran a story about the Foster's Freeze in old Torrance-the Baldwin family that bought the place in the mid 70s is retiring.
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