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Northwest Mall was a shopping mall located in the Lazybrook/Timbergrove neighborhood of Houston, Texas near the intersection of U.S. Route 290 and Loop 610. The mall opened in October 1968, two weeks after its sister property, Almeda Mall, opened on the south side of Houston. The malls were nearly twins of each another.
The shops occupying spaces at Westbury square during the center's height in the 1960s and 1970s included The Candle Shop; [17] Cargo Houston Importers, a store described by Alisa Rogillio-Strength of the Houston Business Journal as "a predecessor to Pier 1"; [7] The Chemist Shop, a perfume store; Cromwell's, self-described as an "Olde English ...
Frusen Glädjé was a company that made premium ice cream for the American market, founded in 1980 by Richard E. Smith. [1] Although the ice cream was made in the U.S., it used a quasi-Swedish name: frusen glädje (IPA: [ˈfrʉ̂ːsɛn ˈɡlɛ̂ːdjɛ]), without the acute accent, is Swedish for "frozen happiness".
Marble Slab, which began as a single unit operation called Cones & Cream, [3] was founded in Houston by chefs Sigmund Penn and Tom LePage in 1983. They were inspired by Steve Herrell of Herrell's Ice Cream in Boston, who pioneered the mixing approach to ice cream toppings. [ 4 ]
After many years of selling ice cream only in Brenham, the company began selling its ice cream in the Houston area, eventually expanding throughout most of Texas including the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex and the state capital of Austin. By the end of the 1970s, sales had quadrupled, and by 1980 the creamery was producing over 10 million ...
A signature Braum's neon sign in Kansas. In 1957, William Henry "Bill" Braum [1] (1928–2020) [2] purchased his family's ice cream processing business based in Emporia, Kansas, as well as its "Peter Pan" retail ice cream chain; ten years later, the Peter Pan stores were sold, under the condition that the Braum family would not sell ice cream in Kansas for ten years.
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Amy's Ice Creams in Upper Kirby, Houston. Amy's Ice Creams is a privately owned chain of ice cream shops in Texas with headquarters in Austin. [1] The Austin Chronicle described Amy's as a "quintessentially Austin institution" which "dominates the local ice cream scene." [2] Amy's ice cream is owned by Amy Simmons. [3]