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On a hot summer day at Yester California Adventure, what would be the perfect treat? If you answered “a delicious ice cream sundae,” look for the Bur-r-r Bank Ice Cream sign at Sunshine Plaza, right around the corner from the park’s Golden Gate Bridge. If you answered “an ice-cold beer,” you’ll have to go someplace else. |
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Photo by Werner Weiss, 2007 Railroad platform? |
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The sign reads, “ice cream,” but there’s nothing around here that looks like an ice cream parlor. |
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Photo by Allen Huffman, 2008 The mighty diesel locomotive of the California Zephyr |
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There’s only a streamlined passenger train here—the famous California Zephyr. A closer look reveals a large opening in the locomotive with a menu sign on one side. You’ve found the entrance to Bur-r-r Bank Ice Cream. |
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Photo by Werner Weiss, 2010 Not your typical ice cream parlor |
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Photo by Werner Weiss, 2007 Welcome! |
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The name of Bur-r-r Bank Ice Cream is a play on the name of the California city of Burbank, which calls itself the Media Capital of the World because it’s the home of Disney, ABC, NBC, Warner Bros., Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, and dozens of other entertainment and media services companies. Dr. David Burbank moved his dental practice from Maine to California in 1853. When he bought 9,203 acres of Southern California ranch land ten years later, he could not have known that, some day, there would not only be a city named in his honor, but also an ice cream parlor at a major tourist attraction. That’s right. The city of Burbank was not named after horticulturist Luther Burbank. That’s enough about Burbank. Let’s get back to Bur-r-r Bank. |
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Photo by Werner Weiss, 2010 The queue |
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Photo by Allen Huffman, 2006 Artistic queue railing |
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Photo by Werner Weiss, 2010 Left side of menu board |
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Photo by Werner Weiss, 2010 Right side of menu board |
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As you approach the counter, take a look at the menu board. Perhaps you’ll want one of the four Bur-r-r Bank Sundaes on the menu. Or choose from five different kinds of cones—regular, waffle, and three kinds of dipped waffle cones—with one or two scoops chosen from nine flavors of ice cream. Or be creative and design your own ice cream treat. Start with one or two scoops and then go wild with toppings. Ask for a cup. A cone with several toppings is too messy. The tilework in Bur-r-r Bank Ice Cream is inspired by Los Angeles Union Station. While you wait for your ice cream, admire the snowy, railroad-themed artwork on the back wall. Then take your ice cream treat outside and have a seat on the “train platform.” |
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Photo by Werner Weiss, 2010 The counter |
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Photo by Werner Weiss, 2010 Chilly artwork and crunchy cones |
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Photo by Allen Huffman, 2006 Ice cream served! |
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Photo by Allen Huffman, 2006 Perfect time for ice cream in all four time zones of the continental United States |
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Photo by Allen Huffman, 2002 Outdoor seating |
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Photo by Allen Huffman, 2008 Ice cream at Christmas |
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On a cool winter day at Yester California Adventure, what would be the perfect treat? Ice cream from Bur-r-r Bank Ice Cream, of course. After all, this is Southern California, where ice cream is appropriate all year. |
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Bur-r-r Bank Ice Cream was part of Disney’s California Adventure when the park opened on February 8, 2001. Its final day of operation was July 31, 2011, when the parlor and its neighbors closed so that the transformation of this part of Sunshine Plaza into Buena Vista Street could begin. |
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Photo by Werner Weiss, 2015 Advertisement for Clarabelle’s Hand Scooped Ice Cream inside a Red Car Trolley |
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Photo by Allen Huffman, 2017 Order windows at Clarabelle’s Hand Scooped Ice Cream |
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When Buena Vista Street opened in June 2012, it had a new ice cream parlor, Clarabelle’s Hand-Scooped Ice Cream. |
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