What a great article by Sarah Karnasiewicz pulled by the Utne Reader from Portland, Oregon’s Imbibe Magazine. I love soda fountains. My father worked at Fremont, Nebraska’s “Pietro’s” during his high school years in the late ‘teens- early 1920s. I flirted with my future bride across the counter at Richie Dairy in the ’70s. The snack bar in my college dorm still made vanilla phosphates.

For years my kids wouldn’t let me pass Hamburg, Iowa without stopping at Stoner Drug. They are still open after more than a century and while I-29 may still be closed you can get to Hamburg via US 275. Visit their Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stoner-Drug-Co/135297889855484?sk=wall . Shopping for a high schooler? Mine loved wearing their Stoner Drug hoodies. 

utnereader:

Fizzy Business

While the phrase “soda fountain” may conjure up a midcentury malt shop tableau—part Archie comic, part Happy Days—the roots of the American soda fountain run much deeper, and much darker. Carbonated water has been prized for its curative power for millennia, but commercial fountains, which claimed to artificially reproduce the benefits of spring waters, didn’t become widespread until the first quarter of the 19th century—and then were marketed primarily for their medicinal, not pleasure-giving, properties.  Keep reading …

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   Fizzy Business While the phrase “soda fountain” may conjure up a midcentury malt shop tableau—part Archie comic, part...

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   great article by Sarah Karnasiewicz pulled by...Utne Reader from Portland, Oregon’s Imbibe...

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   I want to go to one of these! How cuteeeee.

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    your Tumblrer grew...these in Brooklyn. Ahhh…

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    Aw! I like this idea! Quick, someone bring

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    Remember when tusksfamily...all-soda-fountains-and-ice-cream blog for like two weeks?...

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