Ice Cream Sundae
ICE CREAM SUNDAE
In 1881, George Hallauer asked
Edward C. Berner, the owner of a soda
fountain at at 1404 ~ 15th Street, to top
a dish of ice cream with chocolate
sauce hitherto used only for ice
cream sodas. The concoction cost a
nickel and soon became very popular,
but was sold only on Sundays.
One day a ten year old girl insisted
the have a dish of ice cream “with
that stuff on top." saying they could
“pretend it was Sunday." After that.
the confection was sold every day
in many flavors. It lost its Sunday-
only association, to be called ICE
CREAM SUNDAE when a glassware
salesman placed an order with his
company for the long canoe-shaped
dishes in which it was served. as
“sundae dishes."
Erected 1973