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Garth Hosking standing outside his uncle's store
1922
Oyster Pond, Nova Scotia

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The ice cream parlour was open on Wednesday and Saturday evenings through the 1920s. When he turned fifteen, Garth Hosking (Roxie and Frederick's son) began running the business himself. For three years (1927-1929) he operated the parlour during the summer months. A scoop of ice cream was five cents, a sundae was 25 cents, and a banana split was 40 cents.

In this 2004 interview, Reg Daye remembers well the ice cream parlour above the store:

"Now I can remember going down to the ice cream parlour. Oh right well. It could be a Saturday evening, or if it was fine. It was something else, and Mrs. Hosking was a very nice person. She was too nice to be in business. She'd give all the profit away. We went there for a five cent ice cream. Well, my oh my, you'd have a hard job to eat it, what you would get, you know? She wasn't making no money on it. Oh, she was a very well liked person."