Five Coupons: good for one free pint each of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream or Frozen Yogurt.

With a $12,000 investment ($4,000 of it borrowed), Ben and Jerry open their Ben & Jerry's Homemade ice cream scoop shop in a renovated gas station at the corner of St. Paul and College Streets in downtown Burlington, Vermont, on May 5. Ben and Jerry hold their first free summer movie festival, projecting movies on the outside wall of the old gas station in Burlington.

Ben & Jerry's marks its one-year anniversary by holding the first-ever Free Cone Day: free scoops of Ben & Jerry's for all, all day long. Now an annual celebration at Ben & Jerry's Scoop Shops nationwide.

Ben and Jerry rent space in an old spool and bobbin mill on South Champlain Street in Burlington and begin packing their ice cream in pints. The reason? To distribute to grocery and Mom & Pop stores along the restaurant delivery routes Ben services out of the back of his old VW Squareback wagon.

Ben & Jerry's moves its expanding pint-packing operations from the spool and bobbin mill in Burlington to Green Mountain Drive in South Burlington, behind a car dealership. The first Ben & Jerry's franchise opens on Route 7 in Shelburne, Vermont.