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I grew up with T & W (Terwilliger & Wakefield) ice cream, which was sold in supermarkets and at their retail outlet off Route 17 on Ridgewood Rd, which is also where they made their products, and which was always very busy in the summer.
By the last time I drove through there in 1983, they were gone.
About ten years ago I looked them up online and I found they had been involved in some lawsuit - I forget the details but it sounded messy - in the late 1970s, but I was not able to discover how the lawsuit ended. Was the lawsuit responsible for their demise?
I grew up with T & W (Terwilliger & Wakefield) ice cream, which was sold in supermarkets and at their retail outlet off Route 17 on Ridgewood Rd, which is also where they made their products, and which was always very busy in the summer.
By the last time I drove through there in 1983, they were gone.
About ten years ago I looked them up online and I found they had been involved in some lawsuit - I forget the details but it sounded messy - in the late 1970s, but I was not able to discover how the lawsuit ended. Was the lawsuit responsible for their demise?
I don't know, but thanks for the memory jog. I remember T&W. Wow.
My first job after high school,1967! a few years later T&W sold just the store to Jack and Norm, 2brothers who had been the store managers. Few years after that, they had a falling out and the place now belonged only to Jack,shortly afteword some company bought the land and tyhe store from Jack and put up a huge office bldg. Jack was the nicer of the 2 brothers and he did well in the buyout!
Funny, I just asked my sister if she remembered T&W, and got to wondering what happened to it(them). We lived in NYC but had aunt and uncle in Ridgewood. On the way back to NYC on Sundays, we'd stop at T&W and have something for the car and they would pack ice cream containers and put them in these sort of insulated bags with "dry ice" to last the rest of the way back to NYC. Wasn't there a pond across the stree from the facility? Great memory trip!
I was raised in Ridgewood more than 50 years ago and preferred Van Dyke's to Twilliger and Wakefield (T&W) ice cream. Van Dykes Ice Cream is still in operation today.
I remember going to T&W as a teen. We switched to Van Dykes but I've noticed recently their ice cream is not as "creamy" as it used to be. These days, I prefer Baumgart's or Maggie Moo's to Van Dykes.
I was raised in Ridgewood more than 50 years ago and preferred Van Dyke's to Twilliger and Wakefield (T&W) ice cream. Van Dykes Ice Cream is still in operation today.
It’s spelled Terwilleger, after my grandfather John Sr. Any apparent lawsuit happened well after he sold the business… My father actually packed many lunches in those same bags described above
I grew up with Gruning's in Millburn and on the Hill.
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what ever happened to T&W
