Good Humour Truck/Hot Dog Cart Rental

Not sure if this is the right forum for this post but it seemed like the closest match.

I am planning a first birthday party for my son in our backyard and i want to have a hot dog cart and good humour truck for the kids. I remember seeing someone advertise this exact service but i cant find anything on the web or in the phone book. We live in highland park. If anyone has any thoughts or knows of anyone who does this sort of thing please let me know. I approached the good humour truck that parks on tower and forestway and i think i can lock that part of the equation down....i am stymied because i remember seeing something advertising a combo of these two catering services. anyway, thanks in advance...

We've hired Poochies to come out and set up a mini-poochies in our backyeard. They show up with a charcoal grill and pretty much their entire menu including drinks. It was very well received by our guests. Talk to Chris.

Poochie's
3832 Dempster St
Skokie, IL
(847) 673-0100

We just saw the Patio Penguin truck heading down the Eisenhower.

stevez wrote:We've hired Poochies to come out and set up a mini-poochies in our backyeard.

Poochies is a fan favorite in my house, but that is a bit more then we are looking for. I know that i saw an ad somewhere for a guy who sets up a "Sabarett" type hot dog cart in the back yard along with a moonwalk and a good humour truck. Maybe I was hallucinating. Anyway, Ill give poochies a call and see if they do something close to what im looking for. By the way, I still sometimes dream about poochies cheese fries. They are responsible for clogging up at least one of my arteries

Perhaps Lucky Lou's?

Hi,

I don't if he is still around. There is a Good Humor truck that used to be parked at Tower and Dundee just entering the Skokie Lagoon area. I have seen him in the past at Lake-Cook and Green BAy Road, too. He might be available for hire.

Regards,

Maybe Woody's?

America's Dog will send a hot dog cart too depending on your location. There's one at Navy Pier and one at Randolph and State. See their website at americasdog.com:

Hot Dog Festival Cart
$5.95/person
Your choice of either a table top or buggy style hot dog cart to your event stocked with hot dogs & polish sausages with all the toppings to build a Chicago Style Hot Dog. The package also comes with chips & dessert. It’s a fun way to impress your guests!

Cathy2 wrote: There is a Good Humor truck that used to be parked at Tower and Dundee just entering the Skokie Lagoon area. I have seen him in the past at Lake-Cook and Green BAy Road, too. He might be available for hire.

Regards,

Spoke to the guy who is parked at Tower and Forestway (I think this is the one you mean) and he is available. Actually quite reasonable. $25.00 and he will come to your place for a half hour and serve all the ice cream your kids can eat. You pay for the ice cream too, of course. The ice cream was about $2.00 give or take a pop. I'll post the phone number later if anyone else is looking for something like this. Thanks for the hot dog cart info, ill give them a call too.

Ann Fisher wrote:Perhaps Lucky Lou's?

BINGO, this is the place I was looking for. Thank you so much Ann.

Back in a previous life I sold a delivery truck to this guy. Looks like he has exactly what you need.
http://www.cartsofchicago.com/

Hi,

You may want to contact Highwood Rentals. They no longer have their retail store on Waukegan Road in Highwood. I believe they moved to Old Skokie Road by 41. They have concentrated their business on party rentals and dumped the construction equipment rental business. They may have a hot dog wagon. They may have the Vienna tabletop hot dog simmering station available for rent, too. It may not be as glamorous as the wagon, though it gets the job done and is very colorful.

Forestway and Dundee, sorry for the wrong cross streets. I just go there or at least I just pass it by.

Regards,

Our temple has a service under the stars every year at Wood Oaks Park in Northbrook. We bring picnic dinners, then Friday night service and after the Good Humor Truck comes and everyone can have ice cream. Since today is Saturday and temple is closed I can't get any info until Monday. Will post further when I find out more.
Paulette

From the 7/13 Reader: Chicago Reader | Our Town: How Matt Allen gets Levi's and the White Stripes to buy you ice cream. By Austin Powell

Over the last three years, Allen has trekked more than 35,000 miles in a 1969 Chevy Step Van to hand out free ice cream at the country’s largest music festivals. He estimates that he’s given away nearly 100,000 frozen treats to date. It’s not enough for people to think of him as an ice cream man; Allen wants everyone to know him as the ice cream man.

I don't know if he's actually available, but it's a cool story...

I'm looking for the phone number for the Good Humor guy that was mentioned earlier. I'd like to have him show up at a party in the Skokie area. Can anyone help me out there? Thanks in advance...

I'd love to know how to contact this guy also - have a party in Highland Park in August...

I was searching the internet, and ran across this topic, and wanted to provide you my link for next year. I am a little late on this posting, but when the season is in full swing it is hard to keep up on searches. We are closing for the year September 29th, but will be in full swing again in March 2009.





We are a registered Sodexo vendor, and Member of the International Association of Ice Cream Vendors.
http://www.goodhumortrucks.com

http://www.goodhumortrucks.com

We're having a block party in a few weeks and I'd love an ice cream truck to stop by the festivities. It's a great block party and I'm certain they'd get a ton of business. It seems like there should be some sort of hotline to hail an ice cream truck, similar to calling for a taxi.

Although I'd rather not pay $25 for a truck to appear, I did check out the Good Humor Truck page and it appears they are not doing events this year. Bummer...

Any other thoughts?

As an aside, while visiting my father-in-law's house on Long Island, NY, the ice cream truck that strolled down his street had, in addition to the frozen standards, excellent soft serve along with chocolate, cherry and blue-flavored dips. It was mighty excellent.

ChgoMike wrote:Any other thoughts?

If there's an ice cream truck that you normally see in your neighborhood, flag him down, tell him about the block party and ask him to show up.

Yes, that would be a very obvious solution. However, there is no ice cream truck in my neighborhood. I don't know where to find one. This is why I posed the question...

Go to pilsen, or logan square, or rogers park. Lots of ice cream trucks there.

The Pars trucks usually come around our neck of the woods, but I haven't seen them yet this year. Googling revealed this address and #, along with an Everyblock notice that they have a mobile food vendor license:
4825 W. Arthington
Chicago, IL 60644
Phone: (773) 261-2272
Fax: (773) 261-6111

You could probably also call Monarca and get them to send one of their hand-trucks:
6955 N Clark St
Chicago, IL 60626
(773) 274-6394

If that doesn't work for you, you can stake out a couple of places where they hang out: Lee St. beach, and Lee St outside the Crown Center just after camp lets out for the day. (Doesn't Oakton School have one?)

A-ha! Thanks, as always, Mhays. I called Pars, they took my info, and said someone will get back to me. They sounded like it's a possibility. They'll mention the event to their drivers and if anyone wants to take advantage of the opportunity, they'll be able to do so.

I also hope we get the good firetruck at this year's block party. Last year the truck with the giant kid sprinkler was sent to a different block party - probably north Evanston. Any chance you know someone who could take care to that, too, Mhays?

Yes, with the bad economy, it wasn’t worth staying open this year.
Corporate events were are major money maker, and they are not spending money this year, and parties, well you read they don’t want to spend $25.00 to get a truck stop by, I am sure they wouldn’t have paid my $500 minimum charge.
Ice cream cost, electricity, insurance, maintenance, rent, clean white outfit every event, and 4 to 5 + hours of time to do a event, or party, and everyone thinks it is ice cream, and shouldn’t cost that much.
Ice cream trucks are a business, and are entitled to make a profit, unfortunately, for the many smiles and memories having one at a party, people are not willing to pay.
6 years of doing events and parties, I have never made a profit. Everyone wanting the truck, but no one willing to pay. I do much better restoring them, and selling the trucks than selling ice cream out of them.

If your looking for a classic truck up north http://www.classicgoodhumortruck.com/contact.html

In by the city, Oak ice cream in Oak park 708-848-0665
I wouldn’t recommend Pars.

ChgoMike wrote:However, there is no ice cream truck in my neighborhood.

Mike, I noticed that you are located in Evanston. Could it be that Evanston is a "no fly zone" for the ice cream man?

I can tell you that nearly EVERY night during the summer between 9:30 - 10:00 (usually right at 9:45) an ice cream truck shows up in the 900 block of N. Wolcott (just South of Augusta).

This is our third summer in the condo and it's always there....rats now the song is in my head!!

Good luck!

Does anyone have the phone number for an ice cream truck in the Highland Park area? I would love to get one to come to a party.

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