06-28-18 05:31 joe mackey wrote to NANCY BACKUS about Buses (was: Re: Tipping a
Howdy! Joe,

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 jm>    There's a drug store in a nearby town that several years ago brought
 jm> back their soda fountain and counter service and do a booming business.
 jm> They have been adding more tables over the years, along with a couple
 jm> of booths.  And they have waiters to take you order and bring it to
 jm> you.
 jm>   The owners are smart, they are keeping it small, and the place is
 jm> packed whenever I go there.  You can get burgers and such, along with
 jm> sundaes, etc or just a dish of ice cream.  At the counter you can watch
 jm> as banana splits are make, soft drinks with syrup and soda water added,
 jm> etc.  Just like the old days.
 jm>   One time I ordered a banana split and watched as it was made then the
 jm> soda jerk reached over and picked up a plastic bottle marked ketchup,
 jm> another mustard, etc and put that on top.  I starting thinking "who
 jm> taught these guys to make banana splits, the three stooges?"  (It was
 jm> actually strawberry sauce, caramel, etc).
 jm>   The whole place is like setting into the past.  And none of this
 jm> plastic furniture, the tables and chairs are wrought iron, the counter
 jm> is the original marble from the 19th C, etc.  Carved woodwork, etc.

I'm VERY curious.

What City is that Drugs Store in?
What is its Name?

I'd like to tell My Brother about it.
He lives in Huntington, WV too, and may want to go there.

I'd like to know too, so I could eat at that Drug Store with or
without my Brother.

When I went to High School there was a Drugs Store a few blocks away
that made their Fountain Coca-Cola Soft Drink with Syrup that was in a
large glass bottle with a plastic dispenser attached to it.

The bottle was inverted with the dispenser on the bottom so the person
making the softdrink just pressed a big button to put some syrup in a
paper cup.

They filled the cup with soda water (CO2 Fizz Water) and gave it
to the customer.

I can't remember if the dispenser button was pressed once or twice to
make the soda.

I thought that I already seen everything about how a Fountain soft drink
was made until I walked in that Drug Store when I was 14 years old. DUH

... Why CAN'T we see a light that is out, yet CAN see the sun when it's out?
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