SLINGERLANDS — If you want to take home a sweet piece of Capital Region history, look no further than the old Toll Gate Ice Cream building this weekend.
Everything remaining in the venerable ice cream parlor — including ice cream scoops, dishes, appliances, vintage cash registers and the booths and stools that seated customers for nearly 70 years — is for sale this Saturday and Sunday at the business’s 1569 New Scotland Rd. location, where the building’s new owners are preparing for the property’s future.
Robert E. Zautner founded Toll Gate in 1949. His family ran the ice cream shop and restaurant until its closure in 2017, cementing Toll Gate as a beloved Slingerlands institution. The property changed hands in 2021 but was sold again over the summer. The building has been vacant for nearly 10 years…