Who Remembers The Mr Whippy Van

                                 Who Remembers The Mr. Whippy Van

Who remembers the Mr. Whippy van driving around the neighborhood of Melbourne, Victoria? I do, it was one of my precious memories of growing up. He would play his music on his loud speaker so that everyone no matter where you were could hear that Mr. Whippy was coming. We would all run out of the house so watch him coming especially on those really hot afternoons. While you would wait you could see all the other children and parents running out to their nature strips to purchase one of his yummy soft serve ice creams.

Sometimes my parents would buy us all one and sometimes they wouldn’t. Now as a grownup I realize that they couldn’t always afford to buy us all one. But that still didn’t stop us from running out to watch Mr. Whippy do his thing.

Mr. Whippy looked the splitting image of Elvis Presley. We used to think he had left his job and come to serve us ice cream and sing to us in Tottenham. Because we didn’t really think he went anywhere else.

Well when we were in Maryborough Queensland a couple of years ago we went to their market and to my surprise I saw the Mr. Whippy van and went up and started talking to Mr. Whippy Junior and he started to share their story with me.

 Well it turns out that Mr. Whippy had a Brother and a family and they would drive the ice cream van up to Queensland during in there holidays and Mr. Whippy’s Brother would take the van around the streets of Queensland to help pay for their holiday. What a great idea.

Eventually the Mr. Whippy family moved up to Queensland and after Mr. Whippy retired the Son of Mr. Whippy decided that he would take the very famous Mr. Whippy ice cream van around Queensland. Now he mostly does markets, festivals and food truck venues but does still sometimes drive around the streets.