His name is “Jugglin Joe” and when all lit up at night the neon Joe tosses a scoop of ice cream into the air with his right hand, and magically makes it land in the cone in his left hand.

For over 50 years, Joe has sat atop Gunther’s Ice Cream, presiding over Sacramento’s oldest ice cream store, still throwing ice cream into cones, and never missing.

Herman, “Pop” Gunther designed Jugglin Joe in 1949 when he and his wife Iva, proudly opened the second Gunther’s Ice Cream just two blocks away from the original 1940 store. And through good times and bad, Jugglin Joe is still throwing his scoop of ice cream into the cone and still never misses.