BJs Velvet Ice Cream

The Mom and Pop business is an endangered species. On the corner of Palmer Park and Union are three long standing locally owned businesses. For as long as I can remember, BJ’s Velvet Freeze ice cream, the corner gas station and Leon Gessi pizza have been there. I think Velvet Freeze and the gas station go back as many as 50 years!

Last I knew, the ice cream place was now owned by a former student’s family, the Hougers. Maybe the success is in that all three of these have provided our city three necessities — pizza, gas, ice cream.

This one small corner contains so much history and memory. Maybe that explains why there are quite a number of searches for this place.

If you came here my search, say hello in the forum and tell your memory of Bj’s Velvet Freeze.