Name/Title
Bond's Ice Cream Shop: Awful Awful GlassEntry/Object ID
2014.032.001Description
Per the donor: "Bonds, an ice cream and sandwich shop, opened in a strip mall on Morris Avenue (across from today's ShopRite) in the late 1950's. It soon became a favorite hangout among high school students, even rivaling Don's Drive-In. The Awful-Awful ("Awful big, Awful good") was a large milkshake-type concoction. If you drank three, they gave you an Awful Awful glass. At some point later in the 1960's, Bonds was taken over by Friendly's, which took over the Awful Awful, for a time at least." The 7" tall glass has a 3" high ribbed band encircling the glass, beginning 2" from the bottom of the glass. Red text encircle the top of the glass: "Awful Awful" "It's a drink" "Awful Big; Awful Good; B.I.C." The bottom of the glass is embossed (so you can read it from the inside of the empty glass): "Kar-Lac; Pat No. 1754560; Mixserv Glass" with an Anchor Hocking (?) logo beneath the text. No detectable signs of wear or damage. "Mixserv" apparently refers to "Combined mixing and serving glass for drink mixers" (per the patent).Acquisition
Accession
2014.032Source or Donor
Joan Carroll Stevens
