Old-Fashioned Quality Continues Today

Remember eating Ice Cream under the bridge?  Remember family trips to London’s Ice Cream Parlor and waiting in line, watching the milk cartons rolling past the window?  Remember greeting your friends over your favorite cup of coffee?  Remember when service was personal and quality mattered?  All this and more has returned to our community with the Grand Opening of the Milkhouse Ice Cream and Coffee Café.

The influence of London’s Ice Cream Parlor left a profound impact and many great memories throughout our community over numerous generations.  This is true as well for Walt Caughel Jr. and his partner Joe Phillips, owners of the new Milkhouse Ice Cream and Coffee Café.  “It was a sad day for our community when London’s closed” stated Walt Caughel remembering all the family trips there for their “special treats.” After months of searching, they found just the right products to open the new Ice Cream Parlor and Coffee House, which upholds the quality that fills so many childhood memories. The new Ice Cream Parlor is a significant part of the restoration efforts currently on going at Wurzel's Fort Gratiot Flea Market.

The Wurzel's "Big Red Barn" holds many memories for the people of this community, from its beginnings as a dairy farm over a hundred years ago, to the ice cream parlor that once resided in the same area our new parlor does today, to the flea market that has now been a part of this community for over 20 years. With the addition of the Milkhouse Ice Cream and Coffee Cafe, Fort Gratiot Flea Market takes another step in restoring the "Big Red Barn" to its place as a family place in the Port Huron area community.