Vacant ice-cream store with iconic cow head up for sale in Detroit – for a lot

By Steve Neavling
Motor City Muckraker

Want to buy a Detroit landmark?

A former ice-cream store featuring a giant cow head on Detroit’s east side is up for sale.

The price tag – $89,000. That’s more than a Taylor company purchased Michigan Central Station in the 1990s.

The small, abandoned building sits on a largely vacant stretch of Mack Avenue about six blocks east of Conner. Many of the residential streets surrounding the building are dotted with vacant lots, buildings and houses.

lIra Wilson & Sons Dairy opened in the 1950s, selling ice cream, candy and baked goods at a time when factory jobs were plentiful and neighborhoods were full. The building later became Dairy Ann, C&P Ice Cream and a barbecue joint.

The iconic cow was featured on Eminem’s 8 Mile movie. His character blasted the cow with a pink paintball.

At a much larger building on the west side, Ira Wilson & Sons Dairy mounted a large cow head on a billboard in the late 1950s. But the head was removed.

The sale price was first reported by Curbed Detroit. 

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Steve Neavling

Steve Neavling lives and works in Detroit as an investigative journalist. His stories have uncovered corruption, led to arrests and reforms and prompted FBI investigations.

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