Famous "Tin Roof" Sundae returns to Potter

Locals and travelers alike can once again enjoy a famous "Tin Roof" Sundae, with the Potter Sundry again open for business.

Current renter and manager of the Sundry, Maida Gotfrey, has run the sundry three times since 2000.

Seeing the store sit empty and un-open, Gotfrey said she felt obligated to re-open its doors.

"The Sundry being open is a necessity to the community," Gotfrey said.

Built in 1916 as a drug store to facilitate the prescription needs of Potter's doctor, the Sundry's claim to fame was an ice cream sundae called a "Tin Roof." The sundae's creation is credited to Harold Dean "Pinky" Thayer, who worked at the soda fountain in his youth. Its name sake is still up for debate by locals, but it is thought to come from the building's type of roof.

"Tin Roofs cost a quarter the whole time I was a kid," said Dale Dedric, owner of Collective Gathering Antique store just up the street.

Dedric,s mother, Wilma Dedic, ran the Sundry "from 1940 to 1970 something," Dedric said, "When my folks ran it, it was just a drug store, no prescriptions."

Sundry customers could find everything from baseball gloves to model cars over the years, but the things that Kirk Enevoldsen, Potter Historical Foundation member, said he remembers the most are the milkshakes and the cherry fountain sodas.

"If all you had was a nickle, you could get a coke for a nickle." said Enevoldsen.

See the entire story in the Thursday Sun-Telegraph