About Snelgrove Ice Cream Cone
A giant double-scoop ice cream cone still stands along 2100 South in Salt Lake City even though the Snelgrove parlor and factory it once advertised are gone. The oversized sign has outlived the building around it and become a roadside relic of a local ice cream brand that began in 1929.
Snelgrove grew into a familiar Utah name, and its Sugar House location became especially recognizable because of the giant cone outside. The landmark was prominent enough to appear on a commemorative pin during the 2002 Winter Olympics.
After the original business changed ownership and the surrounding buildings were eventually demolished, the cone remained. Without the full parlor around it, the object became stranger. What once functioned as a large commercial sign now stands almost like a monument to a missing building.
The Snelgrove brand has since been revived, but the old cone remains the physical survivor most closely tied to the former Sugar House landmark. Giant food signs usually exist to point customers toward something. This one became an oddity because the thing it was pointing toward disappeared first.