There’s a family story behind Skipper Dipper ice cream store that is still being written -in fact, still being produced and directed, so to speak.
This is the 35th summer of the large shop elevated over the Boulevard inBeach HavenPark, reached by a ramped deck that, on warm summer nights, has lined up half the neighborhood and then some. Good things stay the same here – the signs listing a wall full of choices, the quality of the ice cream that forms the line in the first place, the neighborhood feel.
And some details have gotten even better. Dave Powitz was2 when his parents and his aunt and uncle opened the shop on…
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