Sunny Boy

Dear Mr. Coney Island...
Fudgy wudgy, hot knishes, ice cold orange drinks....what was the name of THAT orange drink ???
- Donald Russo

Dear Donald,

Sunny Boy was the name! It came in little waxed-paper containers. The distributor was located on West 36th Street and Neptune Avenue.

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Photo probably from mid to late 1950's. Box reads "Good Humor" for 15 cents and the "Humorette" says 12 cents or maybe 10 cents!, and no sign of Luna Park and Trump Villages high rises. Smokestack from Feltman's is there too,--- hey no bikinis seen either!
Humorette was orange ices covering vanilla ice cream. Good Humor was just the standard popstick ice cream in multiple flavors like vanilla, chocolate, chocolate chip, toasted almond or cocoanut.

I was a Good Humor boy selling Ice Cream and Orange drinks. He is missing his white Pith helmet. The brand was Sun Dew , but it was private labeled Good Humor by Sun Dew I started in the late 1950’s and worked my way up to counter boy and Stand Manager at Brieghton 4th Street at Bay 4. Also worked Rockaway as the youngest stand manager at 55th Street in Arvern. Humorettes were 12 cents. Had to have Pennie’s.
Worked till 1961 and was drafted A co-manager Howard Pontuck went to West Point and was killed in Viet Nm in 1968. G-d rest Howie’s soul. Harold Schiffer

Responding to Donald's inquiry, the guys walking down the beach selling knishes would be barking out 'Orangeade'. Sure wish I had a potato knish and an orangeade now.

I was shopping at a BJ's on L.I. and met a guy giving out samples of food. We got to talking and he told me he grew up in Sea Gate and that his father was the Sunny Boy source.

yup, you probably met my uncle jerry cohen. my granddad irving cohen manufactured and distributed the sunny boy drinks- orange, grape and pink lemonade

yes and also those venders on beach sold those sunkist , fruit bars , i think they came in orange and lemon.

omg how wonderful is this , hey sunny boy !!! was the cry on bay 13 or 14 summer of 1959 , 1960, the one and only thing i can say thats better these days is that , back then the beach was strewned with garbage , back then you could eat on the beach , and people just threw their trash , on the sand , old sandwitches, cigarette, butts , but it still was great , thanks

That distributor was my grandfather, Sam Blum, who owned and ran Coney Island Dairy

Where was Palumbo bros. Fruit store located? What was the owners first name?

Owner was Sonny Palumbo.my dad. Sunny Boy factory was around the corner

"Sonny Boy, Sonny Boy
two for a nickel, boy oh boy
Each soft pack makes one (great?)
full fruit flavor in a wink
Sonny Boy, Sonny Boy
You'll love that taste and Ohhhhh
Giddy yap giddy yap giddy yap
Goooo...get Sonny Boy!"

That's the lyrics I remember from Bellflower Ca back in the Summer of 1960.

I lived in Montery Park, California. I loved the jingle of Sonny Boy!! But my mom and aunts don't remember it! The jingle or the big bottles each of brightly colored sunny boy bottles of flavor! It was in Gradada Hills CA too! Let 50's early 60's

His name was Sonny Palumbo. Previous owners were john Palumbo and Joseph Maiorino, and before that the family patriarch, Al Palumbo, my grand father. It was at 3527 Neptune and was a victim of urban renewal, replaced by low income publicly funded housing

Waxed container shaped almost like a small megaphone. Do remember a metal rim on the spout.

The factory for Sunny Boy was across the street from my house. Once in a while a delivery was made there of the syrup they used to make the drink and occasionally it would spill out onto the the street. It was hot summer and that syrup was very sticky and our stick ball games slowed down to a crawl. Fun times.

I remember when the Suuny Boy syrup would spill down West 36 th Street. What a stench in the Summer. I can still smell it

I could be wrong but I always remembered the name as Sunny Boy. The container was like a cylinder but larger at the bottom and smaller at the top. With a metal rim which really added to the taste (probably lead). Delicious! Amazing there's not a photo of one somewhere. On the beach in Coney Island or Brighton. Some people remember it as Sun Dew.

Sunny Boy had an amazing grape ade drink as well. Packaged in those same small megaphone style wax containers. Of course these were of a purple color. The Orange drink was awesome with a knish. What great days. !!

I was born on mermaid ave and 21st in '55, I remember all this especially that drink.

I sold Fudgy Wudgys from one end of Coney Island to the end of Brighton Beach in the summer of 1969. I would barter with the knish guy, a fudgy wudgy for a knish. Great memories!

the good ole day drinking sunny boy at coney island amusement park getting at abe's cigar store on south ozone park

I remember Sunny Boy as a child.
Mostly the jingle that I remember as:
"Sunny Boy, Sunny Boy here's a bottle of drinking joy, needs no sugar, tastes just right, makes 3 quarts of pure delight, Sunny Boy low on cost you know so giddy up giddy up go get Sonny Boy"
I am 70 and have no clue why I remember that.

I am like you, I remember as a kid in the 50's the song Sonny Boy drink, the jingle has stayed with me and I still can sing it at 74, so good to know someone remembers things like this, also IPana tooth past, with Bucky beaver

Was wondering if anyone had a picture of the sunny boy factory on 36th street.
I Live next door to the factory at my grandfather are at work there. I would like to show pictures to my grandchildren.
I'm sure in our history. I'm sharing my history

I loved my days on the beach. The steam room schwits. The Bordwalk with the delicious smells of great food Hot Dogs. Nathan's. Jewish. Blitzes Hot Peanuts, Later salt water taffy. So much more

Loved the brightly colored bottles of each flavors! But family never remembered it! I had a TV to baby sit me!

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