Does anyone remember when drug stores had soda fountains ?

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Yes. Kresge where I loved to get mashed potatoes and gravy with a Coca Cola. I think it cost 25 cents when I was little, which is probably the reason I was encouraged to think it was a great snack.

Close to my father's downtown office.
 
Bottesini said:
Yes. Kresge where I loved to get mashed potatoes and gravy with a Coca Cola. I think it cost 25 cents when I was little, which is probably the reason I was encouraged to think it was a great snack.

Close to my father's downtown office.
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We had an Eaton drug store not far from our house and we got ice cream cones or frappes there . Kids where allowed to hang out there ,a cone cost
25 ¢ and you got a lot ice cream .
 
We has a Hesselburg Drugs close to my house growing up as kids in the early 1970's, they had ice cream, soda and candy... loved walking there with my mom to pick up prescriptions and get sweets. We also took the bus everywhere (doctor/dentists appnt.) amazing how lazy we've gotten since we started driving...lol
One reason for america getting fat is lack of exercise, I was always very thin growing up, once I started riding motorcycles I started packing on a bit. Recently due to healthier eating and a bit more exercise from laboring around the house I am trimming back down...feel alot better too.
 
Woolworth's did. There was one downtown St. Paul. They finally closed back in the 90's.
 
Sure do!...we kids hung out there all the time, drinking sodas and dancing to the juke box.....ahhh...good times and no alcohol or smoking. :D
 
soda fountain is what just shop that sell them drinks bottled or a fountain of it
 
They're usually like drugstores with a lunch counter and back in the old days, they served soda and shakes from a tap rather than out of bottles or cans. But sometimes bottles too. Remember the coke bottles?
 
AlleyCat said:
They're usually like drugstores with a lunch counter and back in the old days, they served soda and shakes from a tap rather than out of bottles or cans. But sometimes bottles too. Remember the coke bottles?
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I saw someone trying to sell an old coke bottle that still had coke in it. It was a flea market but I not did asked what it was going for. I bet you could had gotten drunk off the coke.
I love the root beer was sold when I was younger , it came in a big metal mug was a glass bottom and it had a head of white froth . A root beer float was really yummy .


caz12, you can buy it on line.
 
Remember Woolworths? It was what they called a dime store and half of the store had a diner where people could sit down and eat.
 
MangaReader said:
Remember Woolworths? It was what they called a dime store and half of the store had a diner where people could sit down and eat.
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Yes! We had one in a city not far from where I lived .
We could penny candy there too , Candy ribbon , it was small dots of hard candy on paper that you bit off. And small wax bottles that you bit off the top and drank the weird colored water that was in it.


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whatdidyousay! said:
Yes! We had one in a city not far from where I lived .
We could penny candy there too , Candy ribbon , it was small dots of hard candy on paper that you bit off. And small wax bottles that you bit off the top and drank the weird colored water that was in it.


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Oh yes! I had trouble sometimes peeling those dots off the paper and some of them would have paper stuck to it. :giggle:

Remember those?

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I loved the cow pokes. Like a caramel sucker. They're hard to find but sometimes I get lucky.
 
AlleyCat said:
I loved the cow pokes. Like a caramel sucker. They're hard to find but sometimes I get lucky.
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