On Apr 9, 7:51*pm, "Julie Bove" > wrote:
> Lou Decruss wrote:
> > On Mon, 09 Apr 2012 22:14:23 -0400, Nancy Young <replyto@inemail>
> > wrote:
>
> >> On 4/9/2012 8:51 PM, Lou Decruss wrote:
> >>> On Mon, 9 Apr 2012 17:17:08 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> >>> > *wrote:
>
> >>>> > *wrote
>
> >>>>> On Mon, 09 Apr 2012 17:06:58 -0400, Nancy Young wrote:
>
> >>>>>> But thinking back I remember what I liked to get at
> >>>>>> Carvel's. *It was called a Hot Tin Roof, or similar.
> >>>>>> Vanilla Ice Cream, hot fudge, salted peanuts, whipped
> >>>>>> cream ... that's all I remember and I don't remember
> >>>>>> what made it different from a hot fudge sundae.
>
> >>>>> I remember getting Hot Tin Roofs at some place other than Carvel.
> >>>>> Maybe it was Tastee Freeze. *I remember asking for them at other
> >>>>> places like Howard Johnson's and Dairy Queen and just got blank
> >>>>> stares.
>
> >>>>> Looks like it's more common now than it was back then.
>
> >>>> I used to get a Tin Roof at Farrells. *They didn't call it hot
> >>>> although it had hot fudge and peanuts in it. *I think they were
> >>>> Spanish peanuts.
>
> >>> Farrells was a great place to go after basketball games in high
> >>> school. *It was always a good time.
>
> >> Until it was someone's birthday and they started singing ...
>
> >> I was just remembering that place after this discussion started.
> >> I imagine it's long gone by now.
>
> > I think there's still a couple on the west coast.
>
> I think if I remember the history that I read, they all had closed but they
> restarted them in CA.
>
> I'm not really sure why they closed here.

They were apparently magnets for aircraft:

http://www.check-six.com/images/SAC-...arrells-tm.jpg

http://www.check-six.com/images/LAX82FA130-N30162.jpg