Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Gem Theatre & Scoops from the Past

We read about this new little ice cream shop that just opened in Panguitch, Utah. So, on our way home from Cedar City, we took a detour to go check it out. It was totally worth the extra few score miles we put on the car.

Scoops from the Past ice cream parlour is actually in front of the Historic Gem Theatre. The Theatre was in ruins and a couple from Las Vegas bought it and spent money to rebuild. Now it is a quirky little oasis in the middle of small town Utah. Stop on by next time you go down that way.


Jill enjoying her double-scoop of homemade ice cream


Me and Dave enjoying the view from the VIP seats - they only cost $2 more than the regular ticket and you get to sit in the nice leather seats of the balcony


I think this was one of the ancient projectors once used in the theater


An old calendar advertisement from 1958 says that the Gem was showing Merry Andrew with Danny Kaye on July 13-14. (This darling movie just came out on DVD and I would like a copy of it for my birthday coming up next month. Please let Dave know since he doesn't often read my blog. Thanks!)

2 comments:

Jillums said...

Don't forget that you ate about half of that double-scoop.

Chelsea H. Huffaker said...

I did eat half and it was really good!