The following are emails, letters, or postcards received by the Zip Dip throughout the years. We hope you enjoy the thoughts and memories our customers have shared with us!   January 26, 2007 Zip Dip Tradition Hi Chris, I saw your article in the Enquirer and I am writing to thank you for Zip Dip. It is a tradition that we stop by Zip Dip on the first day it opens. When my youngest son was in grade school and high school we never missed opeing day. We ate cones in the sonwy and rainy weather, the weather never stopped us from stopping by Zip Dip on opening day. Now that that son is 27 I email him reminding him that Zip Dip has opened and he gets there as soon as he can. I read your article in the Enquirer and I want to thank you for the picnic tables and more importantly for running a first class business. I am pleased to hear that you are going to conitnue the Zip dip tradition and for that I am thankful. My granddaughter and I frequented the Zip Dip a lot last summer and we rode by it last week and she sad Grandma we really miss Zip Dip. I pleasantly told her that it would be reopening soon. Thanks again Chris for keeping Zip Dip on that corner. Jackie Taylor Hummel - former teacher at St. Antoninus. Bridgetown resident and frequent customer at your fine establishment.   January 12, 2007 Picnic Tables STUART W. GOERING ATTORNEY CONSULTANT • MANAGEMENT, FINANCE, ACCOUNTING, INFORMATiON SYSTEMS, AVIATION 4950 CASTLE COURT OFFICE: (907) 332-4412 ANCHORAGE, ALASKA 99508-4804 FAx: (907) 332-4413 CELLULAR: (907) 529-4514 HTTP://GOERINGLAW.COM E-MAIL: SWGOERING@GOERINGLAW.COM January 12, 2007 Mr. Chris Torbeck Zip Dip 4050 Drew Ave Cincinnati, OH 45248 Dear Mr. Torbeck, I read the story in today’s Enquirer about your zoning problems with interest. Although I no longer live in the Cincinnati area, I grew up not far away from your store, and attended Bridgetown Junior High and graduated from Oak Hills High School. I believe you are doing the right thing by working with the Hamilton County Regional Planning Commission, rather than simply ignoring the needs of the community and your customers by returning to the status quo. However, I wonder whether a zone change affecting all your property is really necessary, since that seems to be the trigger for a whole sequence of undesirable events. My thought is this: your interest seems to be solely to have a safe place nearby for your customers to eat. The description of the new property sounds exactly like a small community park, so perhaps the county might accept a compromise. You could donate or sell the “park” to the county or a non-profit community group, and retain only the right for your customers to access it from your store. Perhaps then any zone changes could be done without affecting the grandfathered status of your store. Of course, if the “park” property is planned as a site for future expansion or development, this approach would not work. Not knowing all the details makes my suggestion something of a shot in the dark. However, I thought it might be worthwhile to give you the opportunity to consider the idea, if it hadn’t already been made and ruled out for some reason. I wish you success with whatever course of action you choose. Smaller, privately owned businesses like yours are of greater importance to our society and econom: than is widely understood. Hopefully government can be flexible and creativ enough to preserve opportunities for existing businesses with a solid track record rather than having to attract new businesses. Sincerely, Stuart W.   May 31, 2006 Hi There! Hi there! My wife and I was coming to Cincinnati for a party and my good friend Willie, an employee at Zip Dip, said I should make a detour and have a sundae! We took his advise and went there. It was wonderful!!! Thanks, Floyd and Janice Herndon, Va (outside of Washington DC)   March 16, 2006 T-Shirt Hi Zip Dip management, I lived on Raceview, just two streets south of the store, from the time I was two until I graduated from Miami University - that was from 1949 to 1969. I must have walked, ridden my bicycle and/or driven my '64 VW Bug to the Zip Dip hundreds of times in those 20 years. It was an icon of my youth. I live part of the year in Michigan and part in Arizona now that I am retired, but still get to Cincy once each year to visit friends and family. I make it a point to at least drive by and salute the store each time. So glad to see your website. I am considering ordering one of the $16 T-shirts in X-Large. Do you have them in stock? I don't want to mail you my $22 check if you don't have a shirt to send to me. Please let me know ASAP, and thank you so much for keeping the Zip Dip just as I remember it. I am not sure just when the first time I had a cone there - probably a 10-cent one - but, I think it must have been in the early 50's. My mom and dad used to tell me they would push me up there in my stroller on muggy summer evenings. I am 58 years old now and still vividly can recall the excitement of stepping up to the window, having the clerk open the glass and let the warm, sweet smells roll past me. After ordering and slapping a few coins on the counter, someone in a white apron would hand me a tall swirl cone. Grabbing a couple of napkins out of the silver box, I would head off licking and smiling. Let me know about the X-Large t-shirt, please. Thanks so much, Jim Ferguson Phoenix, Arizona   « Previous Page Next Page »