In 1952 Tony Fontanella and Ray Dubuc made a joint venture on a Dari Delite franchise. Soft Serve ice cream stands were the new hit. A few years later the business was sold to Les Anderson who made the iconic name change and it's been Les' Dairy Bar ever since.  We've heard Les was the man who would give a cone to a kid who forgot their Nickle, sold Christmas trees in the parking lot, and every good little league game was celebrated with a walk down the block to get some ice cream. 

 

Rose and Albert DiGiandomenico bought the ice cream parlor in 1976 with Jim Bowman and his wife Margot running the daily operations. In the 1980s Deb DiGiandomenico took over and maximized the small square footage and fit more soft serve machines inside the building to keep up with demand. Deb set a high standard for cleaning and maintaining the intricate machines. Her employees remember the floor had to be clean enough you'd want to eat off of it.

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After almost 40 years of lifting 5 gallon buckets of real peanut butter weekly and disassembling-cleaning-reassembling 4 different ice cream machines daily, retirement was beckoning to Deb. While looking for the right buyer to take over the business, Deb decided to open for one more season in the Spring of 2020. Covid-19 made a dramatic change in how the business could operate, not to mention putting Deb herself, her employees, and customers at potential health risks. A difficult start to the season led to a brief closure while she remained unsure of keeping the business going.