#15 Two Rivers, Wisconsin

Two Rivers, Wisconsin. Home of the Ice Cream Sundae!

In 1881, George Hallauer asked Edward C. Berner, the owner of a soda fountian at 1804-15ths Street, to top a dish of icecream with chocolate sauce, hitherto used only for icecream sodas. The concoction cost a nickel and soon became very popular, but was only sold on Sundays.

One day a 10 year old girl insisted she have a dish of icecream "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 ICECREAM 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".

The paragraphs above are from the sign on the right. That sign was errected in 1973 to make it offical that my home town of Two Rivers "Trivers" Wisconsin is the offical home of the Icecream Sundae. HOWEVER, we have been fighting with another small town in New York who also claim to be the home of the icecream sundae, but comming from Trivers I naturally agree with it being here. I thought this would be a fun little fact about my home town that I could share with you guys. We love our icecream here, and have Icecream Sundae Thursdays, its usually around the fall time, and the whole town gets together to have icecream on that one Thursday of the year! Its really cool, and I love this nice little fact about my home town!

Enjoy!