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AMAC Magazine Exclusive – A Return To Yesteryear: Soda Fountains

Posted on Tuesday, January 23, 2024
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by The Association of Mature American Citizens
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Your whitewall tires cruise down Main Street and park along a curb blanketed under a starry night. You enter a place where all ages gather, bellies fill with sugar, and a jukebox plays. You sit on a swivel barstool at a countertop as polished as your parents’ Corvette outside. The clerk standing behind the counter smiles as they fill tall glasses with carbonated water, thick brown syrup, and the occasional malted milk. The final product is slid your way, and you eagerly pull the red and white striped straw to your lips and indulge in the sweet sensation coating your taste buds.

You may have guessed it; you’re at the soda fountain…

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Sydney
Sydney
9 months ago

Remember the jukeboxes- sometimes, one large one and in some shops there were small ones at each table. Slip n a coin and select your favorite tune. If only we could return to those days of relative innocence. Still lives in my mind.

DanM
DanM
9 months ago

Where can I still get a chocolate malt? Seems like there are only shakes now but I remember how tasty the malt was.

Stephen Russell
Stephen Russell
9 months ago

Revive Today but soda fountains serve: Smoothies, juices, teas, shakes, malts for Todays audience

Robert Zuccaro
Robert Zuccaro
9 months ago

No thanks, I look stupid in a greased up, slicked back “D.A.”.

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