In front is a walk-up ice cream window.
Outside, girls in bikinis lolled against the store's ice cream window — cheekily called "Unfriendly's" — licking melting cones.
Open daily from 8 30 a.m. to 9 p.m.. From Memorial Day to Labor Day, the ice cream window stays open as late as there are buyers.
And starting in about 10 days, Griff's, the ice cream window at the Duane Park restaurant, will start offering pops made of frozen pie fillings like Key lime and banana cream, coated with pie-crust crumbs.
And so Ms. Jones and others huddled in their cars all night on the expressway and its exit ramps, scanning the horizon, through ice-caked windows in hopes that plows would reach them.
In subsequent years, the ice-free window will widen, to 2-3 monthen then 4-5 months etc, and the trends suggest that within 20 years time we may have six ice-free months per year.
I hadn't seen this much snow since the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo -- where it snowed for more than four days, where my roommate in one of the high-rise apartments in the Press Village would lift the dreary shade in the morning and peer through the ice-crusted window.
We waited while she started it, swept the snow off, and scraped the ice from the windows.
The sealed cabin needs spaceship-style scrubbers to remove the carbon dioxide and the moisture that would otherwise produce ice on the windows and walls.
When I got to 10th Street, my spirit of adventure was rewarded by a series of sculptures by Clyde Lynds, called "Black Ice," in Broadway Windows.
