Manufacturer: Wallace China
User: Currie's Ice Cream
Date of plate: 1940s
Notes: Currie's Ice Cream Parlor, California. Currie's was known for their "Mile High Cones." According to Hollywood legend, Lana Turner was discovered sipping a soda at Schwab's drugstore. However, she was actually spotted at the counter of Currie's Ice Cream Parlor across the street from Hollywood High School.
See the photo scan below for a Currie's Ice Cream Parlor in Downey, California, featuring its Mile High Cone on the building exterior.
Desert ware tan body, topmarked in blue "Currie's Ice Cream" along with a depiction of one of their large waffle cones.
Building photo scan courtesy of Michael Poulin