Jennifer Biggs

jennifer.biggs@commercialappeal.com

Starting Friday, you can have a seat in a cool — literally — room at Jerry's Sno Cones instead of standing around outside when you scoop up your Wedding Cake Supreme. Or your cheeseburger. Or, starting next week, your muffuletta.

"I'm bringing it back," owner David Acklin said. "I have the olive salad marinating now, and when it's ready, we'll start making them again. People ask me about them all the time."

Jerry's is an iconic snow cone stand at 1657 Wells Station Road that in recent years has added food items such as tamales, burgers, a pork tenderloin sandwich and, for a time, the muffuletta that is on its way back. But the tiny building — maybe a former gas station, maybe a former car wash, depending on who's doing the recalling — has always been walk-up with one window for placing an order and another for picking it up.

Acklin added a large room to the south side of the building, and instead of opening it right away, decided to hire a muralist to turn the space into something that reflects Memphis and Acklin's childhood. There's a big Elvis, of course, the Hernando de Soto Bridge, and a colorful "Memphis" splashed over the walls. But there's also Godzilla, blowing a plume of fire at King Kong, holding a banana in one hand above the Pyramid — and here, it's not a Bass Pro Shop, but an erupting volcano.

"It's all this stuff I loved when I was a kid," Acklin said. "It's just a lot of fun in here."

It's air-conditioned (the vents have been painted to look like buildings) and will be heated, too.

Diners will be able to order at a window in the addition, which will stay open year-round, as Jerry's started doing several years ago when he expanded the menu beyond the impossibly light and soft snow cones, available plain or with soft serve ice cream, the latter called a Supreme.

Acklin still plans to open a Jerry's in Cordova on property he purchased a couple of years back at Germantown Parkway, close to Dexter Road. He said we can expect to hear more about that in a month or so. When open, it will add to the roster of snow cone shops that have opened in the suburbs in the past year or so. Micco's in Collierville and Beaker's, on Germantown Road north of Highway 64, both serve New Orleans style snow cones. Lynda Jordan's Brain Freeze Shaved Ice has been around for several years, but is now in a permanent location in the Exxon parking lot at Goodman and Tchulahoma in Southaven.

Jerry's is open 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday.