1Someone of you remember old photos of Dairy Queen? Ice cream and other food photos about Dairy Queen. Ice cream lovers have enjoyed a “cone with the curl on top” since 1940. Here’s a look at Dairy Queen’s history in pictures. The Dairy Queen story begins in 1938, two years before the restaurant opened, with the dawn of soft-serve ice cream. The inventors, J.F. McCullough and his son Alex convinced ice cream man Sherb Noble to sell it at his shop in Kankakee, Illinois. It was an immediate hit. They served 1,600 customers in two hours at an all-you-can-eat ice cream sale.
