Loard's Ice Cream is a historic ice cream shop located at 2825 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland, California. The business was founded in 1950.
History 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. The shop's name was a combination of the men's last names. In 1952, Salyards won gold in the California State Fair's "Ice Cream and Dairy Products" category. Over the next 20 years, Salyards would single-handedly operate 12 locations, the original stores being in Oakland, Alameda, Castro Valley, Orinda, and Livermore. Loard's produces its own ice cream and candy at a plant in San Leandro. In June 2025, it was announced that Loard's would be adding a sandwich counter, run by WesLo's, to its shop.
Menu 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.
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