Pounded these as a kid in the 70's when you could only get them in the San Francisco Bay Area before it went
Yep. Used to head to a place in Berkeley that made good stuff, Bott's?
Maybe but I never went there. We lived in Napa and Santa Rosa when I was a kid. Although spent lots of time in SF, Oakland, San Jose on the weekends and holidays. For me the big treat was going to Fentons Creamery in Oakland. I got to take my kids there during the 1990's before it burned down and was rebuilt.
Seemed like there was independent creameries everywhere back then making their own ice cream.