Show Dairy Queen Has Anniversary Lucile A A. A Olsen operator of the Dairy Queen store at Manti ManU is one of the more than store operators celebrating celebrating cel eel the birthday of Dairy Queen The first experimental Dairy Queen store was opened open ed in Joliet Illinois in June of 1940 This first store was opened by Mr J. J F F. McCullough McCullough lough and his son who together er first the idea ofa of ofa f fa a soft-serve soft frozen dessert product When the first store was opened Mr McCullough had not yet named the new product However shortly afterward afterward afterward aft aft- erward due to his pride in inthe inthe inthe the quality and freshness of the delicious soft-serve soft dairy product he decided to call it Dairy Queen In April of 1941 the first store conceived and built as a Dairy Queen store was opened open ed in Moline Illinois Now 25 years since the first store opened the Dairy Queen stores have grown to over in number T The The h e world-wide world Dairy Queen chain serves more ithan than million cones 90 million mil lion sundaes and 75 million shakes and malts a year The Dairy Queen name has grown to mean fun and pleasure pleasure pleas pleas- ure to millions of consumers the extent of which can never be measured by any number |