At 10 years old, Chuck Page began working for the family business.
He cleaned milkshake collars stainless steel attachments used to keep ice cream from splattering from the top of a paper cup when blending ingredients.
Fifty-seven years later, he’s still at the milkshake machine.
“I love ice cream,” said Page, whose great-grandfather Charles Alexander Page founded Page Dairy Mart in 1951. It’s located at the corner of Becks Run Road and East Carson Street on Pittsburgh’s South Side. His great-great-grandfather bought the land from the Hays family in 1916. The Page family is from West Mifflin.
“I don’t mind cleaning those collars. It’s a necessary part of the business,” he said. “It’s what you do to keep things going.”