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C163008-6
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- 1922 (Creation)
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ca. 1922. Copy of customer's old photograph. Ordered by Robert Dettling, 2801 Sixth Ave., on January 24, 1973. This photograph ran in the Tacoma Sunday Ledger on March 20, 1922. Employees of the Victory Ice Cream Co. line up with their delivery vehicles ca. 1922. The company was organized in the spring of 1919 with a one-truck delivery van; by 1922, it was operating with seven trucks in daily service with a large repair department. Victory Ice Cream was first established at 2801 Sixth Avenue but rapidly outgrew the premises. A new plant was built at 4532 South Union (later called South Tacoma Way) in March of 1921. The Sixth Avenue site remained open as a retail store. Victory Ice Cream was owned by Cle Elum natives S.R. Stalcup and D.W. Blunt. They were proud of their new modern plant with its electric machinery including an electric steam generator to sterilize ice cream cans. One of their best-known products was called the "Victory Bar." Ice cream bars had become popular and the "Victory Bar," made out of quality cream and the best milk chocolate, necessitated the building of a special dipping room to handle manufacture of the bar. Victory Ice Cream was advertised as the "Quality Cream." (Tacoma Sunday Ledger, 3-20-22, p. 6)
Victory Ice Cream Co. (Tacoma); Automobiles--Tacoma--1920-1930;