Before Miriam Gelfond leaves the door of her home open to visitors Saturday and Sunday for the 43rd annual Grant Park Candlelight Tour of Homes, she will place an old-fashioned glass milk bottle on the kitchen counter.
The bottle will honor the 1950s history of her home (585 Boulevard SE) as the former Georgia Milk Confederation Store and Miss Georgia Dairies ice cream shop. A 1956 advertisement in the then-Atlanta Constitution lists her home’s address among 21 other Miss Georgia Diaries ice cream store locations across metro Atlanta at the time. It markets a picture of a half-gallon cardboard container of “Ice Milk” promised at a sale cost of 53 cents.
