Shubert's Ice Cream & Candy

"We make our own" says it all for this Chico institution! Begun in 1938 when Leonard C. Shubert left Montana, at age 54, to find a location in California for an ice cream shop. As he drove down the tree-lined Esplanade, Shubert was very impressed with Chico and decided this was where his business could thrive. His nephew, Charles Pulliam, Sr., joined him three years later and eventually bought the business from Shubert's widow in 1951.

Not only is Shubert's Ice Cream and Candy in the same building in downtown Chico, but it also uses one of Leonard Shubert's original ice cream making machines. The business is still in the in the same family, with the fourth generation of Pulliams currently making ice cream, rolling out candies and dipping chocolates right on the premises.