Automated Baseball Player "I Like Holburn Ice Cream"
Date1970s
Object NameFigure
Mediumplastic, textile, metal
ClassificationsShopping
DimensionsOverall (Height x Width x Depth): 82 × 36.5 × 26cm
Base (Height x Width x Length): 3 × 30.2 × 33cm
Base (Height x Width x Length): 3 × 30.2 × 33cm
AcquisitionPresented in 2010 by Silvia Quarantelli.
LocationOn Display - Gallery 15
Object numberABDMS083686
About MeThis automated shop front figure came from the Rendezvous Café on Forest Avenue. The café, true to its name, was a popular meeting place for generations of Aberdonians. Opened in 1933 by Attilio Giulianotti, it was one of many Scots-Italian family run ice cream parlours in the city in the twentieth century. Attilio also ran an ice-cream manufacturing business called Holburn Ices which operated between 1953 and 1989 at its factory on Stevenson Lane, and latterly in Bridge of Don. The figure advertised this popular ice cream. The Rendezvous Café closed in 1996, at the time owned by Attilio’s daughter Silvia and her husband Danilo Quarantelli.Exhibitions
c. 1933
1930s
1930s
Possibly 1930s
Early 20th Century
Argo's Fruit Shop
