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The neighborhood I grew up in, in Berkeley, CA, still had the original soda fountain in its pharmacy up through the 90's. At some point, the business was bought and converted to a restaurant, and the soda fountain was removed. But up until roughly 20 years ago, you could still go to the pharmacy, sit at the counter, and get a milkshake or soda.
Probably about half the bikes sold today are one-speeds. Have you been to your local bike shop/s lately? And a lot of them have fat tires, like in the old-old days, if they're not mountain bikes. For some reason, fat tires have made a comeback.
The neighborhood I grew up in, in Berkeley, CA, still had the original soda fountain in its pharmacy up through the 90's. At some point, the business was bought and converted to a restaurant, and the soda fountain was removed. But up until roughly 20 years ago, you could still go to the pharmacy, sit at the counter, and get a milkshake or soda.
Our tiny west Texas town pharmacy has a real 1950s era soda fountain counter and booths set up in the front of the building as you enter but mostly for display. It appears almost new but they don't advertise it and they do not allow customers to sit in the booths. The booths are so small that most modern teenagers couldn't sit in one of them comfortably anyway.
The neighborhood I grew up in, in Berkeley, CA, still had the original soda fountain in its pharmacy up through the 90's. At some point, the business was bought and converted to a restaurant, and the soda fountain was removed. But up until roughly 20 years ago, you could still go to the pharmacy, sit at the counter, and get a milkshake or soda.
I remember back in the 1990s when a lot of drug stores were reviving their soda fountains. But I think that was a short lived fad. Those same stores today seem to be gone, or converted into other types of stores with no soda fountain.
One notable exception is the drug store in my hometown. The last time I was there about 25 years ago it looked exactly as I remembered it from when I was a kid. It had the orange and blue Rexall Drug Storefront on the front. Inside the soda fountain was on the left wall, and merchandise shelves were on the right and in the center. The pharmacy was in the back.
The place still exists today, but looking at the pictures, it's gone way down hill. They have dropped Rexall from the name and Frankensteined it into some big general merchandise store by taking over the store fronts on each side and remodeling it with an ugly western theme. They still have the soda fountain, but from the pictures, it looks so out of place. It just looks sad, with none of the intimacy I remember the old store having. The store's website brags that the soda fountain still has the origional 1940s soft-serve ice cream machine. Well good for them. But that ice cream sucked when I was a kid. LOL. The only time I got any ice cream there was when I had a coupon for a free ice cream cone. Otherwise I bugged my parents to take me to the Dairy Queen or the Tastee-Freez.
...One notable exception is the drug store in my hometown. The last time I was there about 25 years ago it looked exactly as I remembered it from when I was a kid. It had the orange and blue Rexall Drug Storefront on the front. Inside the soda fountain was on the left wall, and merchandise shelves were on the right and in the center. The pharmacy was in the back...
We only had a 5 & dime, but I was able to purchase hot fudge sundaes for a quarter. Then we moved out of state to a town with a drug store similar to what you described. Cherry phosphates were a nickel and floats were 20¢. There was a bowl of chips set out for patrons, and I had to ask what they were. "They're corn chips," was the reply.
Probably about half the bikes sold today are one-speeds. Have you been to your local bike shop/s lately? And a lot of them have fat tires, like in the old-old days, if they're not mountain bikes. For some reason, fat tires have made a comeback.
They never really went away in flat east coast beach towns.
We only had a 5 & dime, but I was able to purchase hot fudge sundaes for a quarter. Then we moved out of state to a town with a drug store similar to what you described. Cherry phosphates were a nickel and floats were 20¢. There was a bowl of chips set out for patrons, and I had to ask what they were. "They're corn chips," was the reply.
The 5 & Dime in my hometown was a Ben Franklin store right across the street from the drug store. They didn't have any soda fountain but that was the place to shop for toys and stuff.
Taking a sewing class in High School, we use to make cute halter tops & maxi dresses.
They didn't have all these clothing stores everywhere and definitely didn't have much for teenagers to choose from.
If we wanted cute clothes we had to make them. I would save my money from babysitting, on the weekends and my part-time job after school to buy all the supplies to make the cute clothes.
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