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Multi-generational family shaved ice and frozen custard shop at 1624 W 39th St — the family has operated on the same block of West 39th Street for 40+ years, making Miami Ice one of the longest-standing businesses on the corridor. Retro blue-and-pink corner shop; shaved ice with mix-ins and frozen custard.

Description

Miami Ice is a shaved ice and frozen custard walk-up shop at 1624 W 39th Street on Kansas City’s West 39th Street corridor. The family-owned business has occupied the same block for approximately 40 years — by The Pitch’s account around 2024, the family had “been on 39th Street for 39 years” — placing its founding around 1985.1

The shop is immediately recognizable by its retro blue-and-pink exterior, a design unchanged across decades, and serves shaved ice with mix-in options alongside frozen custard. It operates as a walk-up counter, a warm-weather fixture on a corridor that has seen dozens of restaurants, bars, and cafes come and go around it.1

Ownership and history

Miami Ice is owned by Max Ross and his father — a father-and-son business that has maintained continuous operation on the 1600 block of West 39th Street since approximately 1985.1 The shop predates most of the current 39th Street restaurant corridor’s identity as a dining destination and has outlasted multiple waves of concept turnover on the street.

Last verified: 2026-08-14 · Source: Miami Ice’s own white-label ordering storefront, whose category names and descriptions are merchant-authored (the storefront’s merchant contact is kcdjmaxx@gmail.com / 816-561-5600, matching the shop’s published phone number and the owner’s first name)2 · Confidence: Medium on the category lineup and the operator’s own descriptions of it; prices are deliberately not carried — the storefront is delivered through an ordering aggregator, and this Registry does not publish aggregator prices. Every price below is therefore “.

Walk-up shaved ice, frozen custard and hard-pack ice cream shop. Descriptions are quoted from the operator’s own storefront copy; no item-level flavour lists or toppings lists are published anywhere first-party.

Categories, in the operator’s own words

  • Miami Ice — — “Miami ice is a wonderful blend of flavorful syrup and shaved ice with soft serve custard at the bottom, a dessert for your dessert.”2
  • Soft Serve — — “Our premium, soft serve custard available in chocolate, vanilla or twist.”2
  • Ice Cream — — “Our premium, locally-made hard-pack ice cream in a variety of flavors.” Sold in Small and Large.2
  • Sundaes — — “A large portion of hard-pack ice cream and any 1 topping - with whipped cream, roasted peanuts and cherry on top.”2
  • Miami Mixers — — “Our premium hard pack ice cream, with 2 ingredients mixed in on the cold stone.” A Build Your Own Mixer option is also listed.2
  • Blended Treats — — category listed by the operator with no description published.2
  • Cakes and Sweets — — category listed by the operator with no description published.2

Named items

Item names below are as published on the operator’s storefront; no descriptions accompany them there, and none has been invented.2

  • Shakes Malts —
  • Root Beer Floats —
  • S’mores (Small) —
  • Strawberry Delight (Small) —
  • Birthday Cake (Small) —

Ordering hours as published by the operator: 3:00 pm – 9:45 pm. The shop’s own Facebook page states walk-up hours of 3:00 pm – 10:00 pm daily.23

Ceiling — what a future pass should not repeat

Checked and exhausted on 2026-08-14:

  • Identity is settled. The storefront, Yelp and the operator’s Facebook all carry 1624 W 39th St, Kansas City, MO 64111 and phone 816-561-5600. Same-name shops in other metros were ruled out on address and phone; do not re-litigate.
  • There is no operator domain. miamiicekc.com, miamiice39.com and miamiicekcmo.com do not resolve. No Square storefront: miamiice.square.site and miami-ice.square.site both 404.
  • The only machine-readable menu anywhere is the aggregator-delivered storefront, so prices cannot be published from the web at all at present. The only things that would resolve this are a photograph of the in-store menu board or a price list direct from the operator. A future pass that finds prices on DoorDash, Uber Eats, Postmates, order.online, Yelp or Tripadvisor has found nothing new and must not use them.
  • Facebook and Instagram are refused or login-gated by the scraper; do not spend attempts there.

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Footnotes

  1. The Pitch KC — “Eat This Now: Miami Ice” — accessed 2026-06-30. Asserts: Miami Ice; 1624 W 39th St, Kansas City, MO; owner Max Ross and his father; family “has been on 39th Street for 39 years” (~2024 publication, placing founding c. 1985); shaved ice with mix-ins and frozen custard; retro blue-and-pink corner shop. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  2. Miami Ice — merchant-operated white-label ordering storefront, “Miami Ice, 1624 W 39th St, Kansas City, MO 64111, USA” — accessed 2026-08-14. Asserts: address 1624 W 39th St, KCMO 64111; merchant contact 816-561-5600 / kcdjmaxx@gmail.com; online ordering hours 3:00 pm – 9:45 pm; categories Miami Ice, Soft Serve, Ice Cream, Sundaes, Blended Treats, Miami Mixers, Cakes and Sweets, Build Your Own Mixer; merchant-authored category descriptions as quoted; item names Shakes Malts, Root Beer Floats, S’mores (Small), Strawberry Delight (Small), Birthday Cake (Small), Ice Cream (Small/Large). Prices on this page are aggregator-delivered and are deliberately NOT carried into the Registry. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10

  3. Miami Ice — operator Facebook page — accessed 2026-08-14 via search result snippet only (Facebook is not directly retrievable). Asserts: “Miami Ice 1624 W. 39th Street Kansas City, MO OPEN EVERY DAY 3:00 PM – 10:00 PM.” ↩

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On the record — ks.city/registry/miami-ice · record updated 2026-08-14