![]() ![]() My grandfather ordered it for Thanksgiving every year for decades. Thanksgiving always had O'Donnell's turtle soup (served with a splash of sherry) to start and pumpkin pie with Giffords for dessert. Often it would be the good humor truck ringing its bells that would cause someone to say "Gifford's?" That was all it would take to get everyone outside into the evening air filled with the sound of cicadas and into the car for the quick trip to ice cream heaven. The best of all were summer evenings when it was still light out after Dad got home from work and we'd had dinner. No occasion was complete without Giffords for dessert Thanksgiving, Birthdays, Christmas. They had racks of glasses next to a water fountain with a long spout, you'd take a glass from the rack to drink water from the fountain. They had wrought iron furniture with marble tops at the Silver Spring shop, even then probably to simulate an old-timey parlor feel. Those in the know entered by the side door which was closer to the counter. I remember the Bethesda one best: huge glass windows and the old-fashioned soda fountains. ![]() These were both classic ice cream parlors. Both locations closed in, gosh, the mid-80's, maybe. Gifford's started out in Sliver Spring in the late 1930s and opened right on Wisconsin in Bethesda (may not have been their original Beth. Discussion on the Polonez thread has sparked my memories about Gifford's Ice Cream and Candies.
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