Rosati has been making its water ice for more than 100 years and they’ve been ‘Makin’ it in Philly’ from the start.

A Delaware County business icon “sprang” back to life this week. Yes, they threw open the windows at Rosati’s Water Ice – for the 107th year.

Rosati Ice, based in Clifton Heights and the oldest Italian ice manufacturer in America, is the fastest-growing school lunch dessert across the U.S.

With the calendar reading June, you might imagine this is the start of the big season for Rosati Ice, which has been making water ice since 1912. Actually, fall and winter are far busier at the modest brick factory tucked into a largely residential Delaware County neighborhood since the mid-’50s.