...Helms Bakery Trucks in Los Angeles....

Fatty McFatFat

No, it's all by mobility scooter now.

There used to be a Little Caesar's truck that would drive around selling pizza. Like the ice cream man.

Stop making fun of me r3.

r4, please get back on your meds....concerned for you.

[quote] That was me & it was real.

How am I making fun of you?

"I haven't been to LA in awhile, do the Helms trucks still deliver fresh donuts by van to neighborhoods?"

What are you, lazy? Me and Ma used to take the streetcar from Eagle Rock to the Helms bakery itself. You know you could get yesterday's donuts half-price plus Mick the Mick would give you a free pickle out of a pickle barrel. But Ma said, "Don't take the pickles, son. It's a bakery. Why would there be a pickle barrel?"

Of course, the pickles were laced with arsenic. They hung Mick the Mick right there in the bakery and the mob did things to his body. It wasn't in the papers about the body, but we knew. Pretty sure Mr. Larson across the street was the one with the pitchfork. We saw him leave the house with it.

But it turns out it was some guy at the pickle factory had poisoned the pickles. He would trade Mick a barrel of pickles for a barrel of bread. Well, one day Mick shorted him a slice. So, really it was Mick's fault all along.

Plus, the mob had dispersed, and they were opening a new herring shop in Glendale. I could practically taste the herring candy already!

R6, I guess you remember the same pizza trucks I do, or maybe you’re just repeating what I posted on the Little Caesar’s thread.

R8 is a LIAR!

Helms ended in 1971

R9 is not me.

"[R9] is not me."

If I had a Helms doughnut every time somebody told me that, my diabetes.. well, I guess it would be same.

Delivering doughnuts? That's rich!

Ah, memories! Helms would deliver fresh baked goods daily. And we didn't get fat!

The truck above is from the early 70s.

This is the classic delivery truck

Sandra Pitts says:

August 17, 2018 at 7:43 pm

This is one of my favorite stories to tell. In the late 50’s I worked for Jack La lane in Hollywood, lovely man. Well he normally came in around 11:00. So the Helms. man came by every day around 10:00, break time. We were very conscience of this. If you think you knew Jack,well you’r correct. We didn’t dare get caught. We would get scolded at lunch time for bad choices.

Most of the time we were able to slip in & out without getting caught, but once in awhile some of us did get nailed. When I think of The Helms man I always think of Jack.

[quote] Nobody ever believes me about the truck that sold pizza.

Why don’t they?

Helms

Why don't people believe, R4?

It's all about Korean tacos and Churro trucks OP, but there are a couple of Donut trucks around L.A.

The Helms trucks were early fronts for a prostitution ring, girls were delivered by bakery trucks to industrial parks where they were offered to warehouse workers and dock hands.