The Ice Cream Sandwich—Born on the Bowery and Eaten by Economists
Comment | July 9, 2012 | By Jeri Quinzio | Photographs by Scott Gordon Bleicher
According to an article in the August 19, 1900, New York Sun, down on Wall Street “the brokers themselves got to buying ice cream sandwiches and eating them in a democratic fashion side by side on the sidewalk with the messengers and the office boys.”