1934 - Restaurants

Restaurants

Carvel's frozen custard stand opens at Hartsdale, N.Y., where a trailer used by Greek-born vendor Thomas A. Carvel (originally Thomas Andreas Carvelas), 27, to transport ice cream between county fairs has broken down. Carvel has opened his first store out of the back of his truck and then borrowed $15 from his fiancée, Agnes, for the wherewithal to start an enterprise that will grow to have 21 soft ice cream stores by 1950 (see Dairy Queen, 1938).