The Dixie Ice Cream Company was established in 1920 by John Kloecker, owner of the Lexington Brewing Company (to replace the lost business from Prohibition). The company’s plant and retails store was located at 123 Rose Street, adjacent to the brewery. The firm produced ice cream and ices, the daily capacity to produce up to 1,600 gallons with twenty-five employees. The firm used the refrigeration plant of the brewery for production. This ice cream plant required about $125,000 additional investment.[i]
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On December 30, 1961, the Dixie Ice Cream Company was dissolved[ii] after the Broughton Farm Dairy assumed the firm’s remaining operation. At the time John H. Kloecker, John Kloecker's son, was the dairy's President.
Dixie Ice Cream was sold in little plastic cups, with a wooden paddle spoon supplied by the company. These were well known treats for children, with many a summer picnic finished with their ice cream.
Metal Sign Dixie Ice Cream (circa 1920s) <WMA>
Basketball Schedule Token, 1956-57
[i] Kerr & Wright, A Century in Photographs, 1984, page 183.
[ii].Fayette County Clerk Office, Incorporation Book 39, Page 73 and Incorporation Book 40, Page 27.
