No, not diners - but also pre-fabricated and similar in spirit! Twistee Treat was a chain of ice cream restaurants founded in 1983. They started off with 23 locations in Florida. The awesome thing is... they’re actually shaped like a giant ice cream cones. A 28 foot tall, 20 foot wide soft serve ice cream come to be exact!
From what I’ve read, over 90 cones were manufactured over the years. I have no idea how many still exist, although Florida still seems to be the hot spot. Additional locations were added in Missouri and Canada when a new Twistee Treat company took over the bankrupt existing company. Sadly the company ceased to exist in 2000.
Twistee Treats should stand proud along other cool 1980s innovations, including the Apple Mac computer, legwarmers, Transformers and glam rock hair bands.
I’ve only been to two .. so far. There are a few I want to check out on our next family visit to Orlando. The Kissimmee one is right down the street from Orange World! Check out AgilityNut.com for a list of locations .. and buildings for sale.
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| Twist of the Mist (Niagra Falls, NY 2006) / Twistee Treet (Jacksonville, FL 2010) |
My family loves traveling to see quirky roadside attractions like these! We have a blog,“Go BIG or Go Home,” which chronicles what happens when our small-town family visits the “world’s largest”…whatever! http://GoBIGorGoHomeblog.com
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