Two Days Michael Berry Show is sponsored by Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor.

Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor was an American Ice Cream Parlor and sandwich chain that was

founded in Portland, Oregon by Bob Farrell and Ken McCarthy in 1963.

The parlors had an early 1900's theme with employees wearing period dress and straw boater hats and each location featured a

player piano. The menu was printed as a tabloid-styled newspaper. It featured

appetizers, sandwiches, burgers, and dozens of different Sundays, as well as maults, shakes, sodas, and floats.

Unusual offerings included a glass of soda water for two cents, and the traditional free Sunday for customers celebrating a birthday.

Some of the Sundays were huge and intended for a group to share,

the largest being the Zoo Sunday.

It was delivered with great fanfare by several employees carrying it wildly around the restaurant

on a stretcher, accompanied by sounds of ambulance sirenes.

In 1972, the Farrell's chain was purchased by the Marriott Corporation.

By 1975 there were 120 Farrell's nationwide.

Three of those locations were in Houston, the Galeria, Almeida Mall, and Northwest

Mall all had Ferrells. Now who remembers the Ferrells Ice Cream Parlor scandal of 1983? The Selective Service service purchased Farrell's birthday club data

and mailed warnings to young men telling them to register for the draft

before their 18th birthday. Now how do we know that that information came from Farrell's

birthday club? Well the use of this data was discovered when a draft letter was

mailed to the address of a non-existent child who had been created by two siblings to obtain an extra birthday club membership, thus getting a free Sunday.

Pharaohs blamed the situation on an unauthorized sale by a list broker, and the government announced they would stop using the list.

Ferals fell in hard times in the 1980s.

Marriott had sold the chain to a group of private investors, but by 1990, almost all all of Farrell's locations had closed.

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