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Goodbye Chubby's Treats. How you can buy its iconic ice cream cone building in Jackson
Tim BotosCanton Repository
- Chubby's Treats ice cream cone building in Jackson Township to be auctioned.
- The catch? The structure must be moved away from the site.
- It was among 13 former Twistee Treat stands brought to this area, from Florida, by Massillon's Russell Draime
After 30 years of serving frosty treats along Fulton Drive NW in the Lake Cable area, Chubby's Treats closed last week. The building and equipment will be sold separately in an online auction, which begins today and continues for five days.
There's a catch for prospective bidders.
The fiberglass ice cream cone section must be moved from the property by the end of the month. The tract, which includes an already-closed car wash, was sold in July for $710,000. Auctioneer Anna C. Van Dyke, of Kiko Auctions, said First Federal Community Bank, of Dover, plans to build on the site.
Why is Chubby's Treats in Jackson Township closing?
Cherrie Zehnder, a longtime owner of the ice cream stand, did not return phone calls seeking comment for this story.Van Dyke said the Zehnder family is retiring. The ice cream business, she said, served them well for three decades. It provided jobs and work experience to children and grandchildren for many years.
"Everything there is very clean," Van Dyke said.
At the close of business, Chubby's posted this on its Facebook page:
"Thank you to our devoted customers!!! The last 30 years would not have been possible without each and every one of you. Especially tonight as many of you bravely stood in the pouring rain just to show us support one last time. It has been an honor to serve the Jackson Community."
How did those buildings shaped like an ice cream cone get to Stark County?
It's one of three ice cream cone-shaped buildings in the area. The others are in Massillon, on Amherst Road NE and on Lincoln Way West. All were purchased out of bankruptcy and moved here in pieces from Florida years ago.The words "Twistee Treat" are spelled out in raised lettering above the front service windows at Chubby's. That's because roughly 90 of the buildings were made for the Twistee Treat company in Florida dating to the early 1980s.
The 25-foot cones are made of 19 separate pieces of fiberglass. That design allowed for the ice cream stands to be assembled to a foundation on-site, according to the RoadsideArchitecture website.
But Twistee Treat fell on hard times and filed for bankruptcy in 1990.
Massillon's Russell Draime was intrigued after spotting he cone-shaped stands while in Florida. His son, David Draime, told the Canton Repository last year that his father purchased 13 of them during the bankruptcy sale and hauled them back to this area.
The Twistee Treat corporation was founded in North Fort Myers in 1983. After bankruptcy, it was reformed but closed several times through the years. Many original stands, though, were permitted to continue as independent operators.
The latest version of the company — Twistee Treat USA — was founded in 2010 and is based in Orlando.