Last month was the 75th anniversary of the Zeroll Ice Cream scoop — the world’s most popular scoop which happens to be in The Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection for excellence in design. And the birthplace of this artifact of industrial design happens to be smack in the middle of the Old West End!

So we celebrated with an Ice Cream Social! Free Tofts ice cream for everyone!

Zeroll ice cream scoops were also given away. One every 5 minutes!

There were old-timey cars…

and old-timey suits!

And M. brought out his fantastic rickshaw, for the delight of everyone. Thanks to Jeff Nelson, Zeroll Co., and Tofts Ice Cream for putting together such a great event!

It was one great weekend. Favorite OWE fest ever, regardless of the weather. Above is some of the video D. shot during festival.

Toledo’s Historic Old West End Association

Our lazy weekend included pasta and vino outdoors at R. and M.’s place…

A leisurly dinner at the Real Seafood Co…

And a Sunday Brunch at Manhattan’s. Hope your weekend was relaxing… not too sluggish.

We also did a little ‘Toledo Economic Development’ by giving a tour to a new friend from NYC, who is interested in moving to our awesome city. He seemed pretty impressed so we may have a couple new Old West End residents soon.

This Saturday and Sunday, June 6 & 7, the Old West End opens it’s doors (literally) and invites you to festival weekend. Come and enjoy The King Wamba Parade’s 100th Anniversary on Saturday, beginning at 10:00 am. Immediately following will be The King Wamba and Queen Sancha Coronation Ceremony at Mansion View. There will be a Classic and Antique Car Show in front of the Park Lane, Saturday from 9am to 3pm.

Both Saturday and Sunday, house tours will be featuring beautiful historic homes. Also to enjoy: an art fair, live entertainment on a stage at Woodruff, children’s activities, food, and of course yard sales.

More information is available on the Old West End Association’s site.

Below is a Google Map of the parade route on Saturday:

Old West End/Ottawa Tavern Thursday strikes again! A group from the OWE met up and rode our bicycles for a bit, and met up with other cyclists at the Ottawa Tavern for food, drinks, and music.

The camaraderie inside the Tavern was great but I was really impressed by the camaraderie outside…

…beginning with this wonderful coupling.

Sweet handlebars.

Nice groupshot!

And more…

Parking permitted, this side of sign!

Adult tricycle! I feel like I’m in Florida.

Thanks to the Dirty Damn Band for tonight’s entertainment.