Coolness. The one at Montclair Plaza (mentioned twice below) was right near the Claremont Colleges, and so quite popular. We once kidnappped Margie for her birthday and took her there (we stuffed her in a sleeping bag, put her in the back seat of my Bug, and drove her around in all directions before ending up there; I'm sure today someone would call the police on us). #ddtb
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I have not been back there myself yet. I am often at the site of the old Farrell's (the Montclair one that Allen mentioned) – it's now a parking lot.
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Restaurant of the Week: Farrell's
Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour, 10742 Foothill Blvd. (at Aspen), Rancho Cucamonga
Farrell's means a lot to many longtime Inland Valley residents who marked birthdays and other occasions at the Montclair Plaza ice cream parlor, which operated through the 1970s and into the mid-1980s before folding like other locations after a disastrous buyout. Now the chain is back, with SoCal restaurants in Rancho Cucamonga, Brea, Mission Viejo and Santa Clarita, with more in the works. Here's its website.
Me…
Do you remember the episode of The Bob Newhart Show in which John Ritter was a waiter at an ice cream parlor that was obviously inspired by Farrel’s? He embarrassed Bob when somebody ordered an item called “the Whale” by singing “You can’t do it! You can’t do it! You can’t eat a whale!” Bob tried to avoid public humiliation by ordering a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Ritter responded with “Single-scooper! Single-scooper! This man is a party-pooper!”
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I wrote Farrell’s person in charge of expansion, suggesting a location near us….
The first Farrell’s I encountered was probably in my early teens, in San Diego. There are two I remember: one at the edge of Fashion Valley Mall, and the other across from Grossmont Center.