Brothers Thomas and Nicholas Aglamesis, immigrants from Greece, founded their first soda fountain in 1908. During the Great Depression, it was named Aglamesis Brothers, and now the third ...

Soda-fountain pharmacies skyrocketed during the 1930s during the Prohibition when shut bars down. The first U.S. patent for dispensing carbonated water through a soda fountain spigot dates to the ...

The little establishment wasn’t as old as the first soda fountain. That was before the term was used to designate a place where sodas were served. In 1819, Samuel Fahnestock was ...

The Loma Linda team was not the first to discover this problem. In fact, researchers had looked into the public health risks at fast-food soda fountains more than a decade earlier and made similar ...

It was the first building in Steilacoom connected to electricity. Bair nearly doubled the footprint in 1906, adding a post ...

KENOVA, W.Va. — The jukebox plays Chubby Checker’s “The Twist” as Malli Jarrett and Nathaniel Fornash take turns at the Griffith & Feil Drug food counter preparing old-fashioned, soda ...

Tucked inside on the first floor of the majestic Lincoln Tower in Downtown Fort Wayne is a tiny business that has stood the test of time. The Lincoln Tower Soda Fountain is legendary to those who ...

St. Paul Corner Drug will be hosting a “retirement party” for its old-fashioned soda fountain from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday ...

I remember the first time I went to an old-fashioned soda fountain as a kid. I was maybe 12 or 13, and new owners had just reopened a 1920s drugstore not far from where my family lived, in Pittsburgh.

and 1950s first dates. Although the classic drugstore soda fountain reached its peak from the 1920s through the 1950s, some diners, ice cream parlors, and pharmacies in New York City have held ...

Brothers Thomas and Nicholas Aglamesis, immigrants from Greece, founded their first soda fountain in 1908. During the Great Depression, it was named Aglamesis Brothers, and now the third ...