Loard's Ice Cream

Loard's Ice Cream is a historic ice cream shop located at 2825 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland, California. The business was founded in 1950.^[1]

U.S. Army veteran, former Fuller Brush man, and former UC Berkeley accounting employee Russell Salyards and his business partner, John Low, founded Loard's on June 22, 1950.^[2][3] The shop's name was a combination of the men's last names.^[4] In 1952, Salyards won gold in the California State Fair's "Ice Cream and Dairy Products" category.^[5] Over the next 20 years, Salyards would single-handedly operate 12 locations, the original stores being in Oakland, Alameda, Castro Valley, Orinda, and Livermore.^[6] Loard's produces its own ice cream and candy at a plant in San Leandro.^[7] In June 2025, it was announced that Loard's would be adding a sandwich counter, run by WesLo's, to its shop.^[8]

Flavors offered at Loard's include peanut brittle, caramel corn, butterscotch marble, lime rickey, brownie nut fudge, cookie dough, mango, burgundy cherry, strawberry, lemon chiffon, and black raspberry marble.^[9][10]