nancy giles does the honors. osicle is pre.olesome. >> reporter: on a hot summer day, who dosn't like a popsicle? ♪ >> yes, it is delicious popsicle. >> reporter: but did you know the original popsicle sprang from the mi-year-old boy? back in 1905, on an unusually cold san francisco night -- >> he had some kind of soda mix, in a glass, and for experimental reasons, he decided to leave it out on the porch overnight. >> reporter: kathleen epperson is frank's granddoubter. >> and the morning when he came out, it was frozen solid. so he took it out, and that was the beginning of the popsicle. >> reporter: he would have to grow up before he patented the idea. yes, the popsicle had a pat tenpat >> he called it eppsicle. >> reporter: but his 4-year-old son george, came up with a catchier name. >> he ran u father's legs, and he said, pop, pop, can i have a sicle. popsicle. >> reporter: he took it to neptune beach, the coney island of the west. >> each week there would be a different kid going in and asking for a popsicle. and the guy w