UPDATE: thanks to the fine people of facebook we have identified the name! It was Simotas Dairy Bar! Below are a few more pictures courtesy of the “You Know You’re From the Mifflin Area” group on Facebook.
Does anyone know remember name of this ice cream place? It was located roughly a bit south of Shillington on the old 222. It was destroyed when they turned old 222 into a highway.
In 1984, a murdered body was dumped behind Simotas, and led to a cold case that took 20 years to finally crack.
There were two places Snokist across from the Yamaha motorcycle dealer and Simotas Dairy Bar that was about a mile up from there near Gouglarsville
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Yes! It was near where theGouglersville exit is now. They had great soft ice cream.
Simotas? Something like that?
Would stop there for gyro and birch beer milkshake. Also caked a Red Bull. Long before the new Red Bull. Little did I know that young Alex Simotas would become my son in law.
They had blackberry or was it blueberry soft serve. Outstanding!
I think it was black raspberry.
[…] across the street from an Adult Video store called the RT. 222 News Outlet and was just north of Simotas Dairy Bar. The building had been an ice cream stand since the 1950s, always called Sno-Kist, but only […]
Black berry