Around 1950, Hickory Valley Farms opened up a butcher shop in this building (you can still see their name on the front concrete stoop.) And then in the 1970's, our friend Mr. Harold Wetzel bought the property , expanded the building, and it became the new home of Ronnie's Lawn Mower sales and service. (Most of the local residents remember the building because of the tractor that was on the roof.) Ronnie decided to retire (and make a lot of loyal lawn mower repair customers unhappy) right around the time Penny and Tony Caciolo, also from Coopersburg, had the idea to open an ice cream and coffee shop.

After spending countless nights watching their son play baseball and football on the 45 acre sports fields that abut this building, the Caciolos realized that there was NOWHERE to take the kids after games for a celebratory ice cream cone. In addition, there was nowhere to get a good cup a coffee on the chilly football game evenings.

After scouring the area for suitable locations for an Old Fashioned, family run, locally owned Ice cream parlor, the current building was found. (and it was hard to miss, since it is attached to the baseball and football fields!) Because of the cooperation of the Wetzel family, it appeared that The Inside Scoop had a found a home. Or so we thought.

But we then realized that we would need a zoning approval because of the unusual residential zoning of this property. After a few meetings, the Coopersburg Mayor, Jonathan Mack, the chief of police, Daniel Trexler, the zoning board, and the borough council gave this project their full support and blessing, so we were able to move forward. We anticipated a bureaucratic nightmare, but Coopersburg proved why they are such a great little town.