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Show Bits & Pieces By Eleanor Bennett Someone said to me the other day that , the term "soda fountain" foun-tain" is out of date! Heaven forbid! for-bid! A 17 year old girl claims it's a "counter" well, sure, a soda fountain IS a counter but there's a. lot of nostalgia attached at-tached to the term 'soda fountain". foun-tain". Always the pretty Coca Cola girl looked out at you from the ornate mirror in back of the fountain the mirror usually bordered in small panes of varicolored vari-colored glass. Do you remember the 5? ice cream soda? And Sarsaparilla? and Phosphates cherry, lemon or lime? Everything was a nickel! My folks way back were ice cream lovers as I am today so I have patronized some of the finest and best soda fountains foun-tains in the country from border bord-er to border and coast to coast! I remember well a story my Dad used to tell. It happened even before he and mother were married. The two of them and Daddy's brother went to their favorite soda fountain and decided de-cided to see who could eat the most ice cream sodas the winner win-ner to pay for all! Well, Mother Moth-er stopped after four; Uncle Arthur downed seven and Daddy won with eight! But here's the point of the story he put a dollar dol-lar bill on the fountain and got some change back!!! Guess that's what could be called "the good old days"! I remember when I was about five years old the ice cream man used to come around every afternoon with his cart. He had big bowls of home-made ice cream sitting on blocks of ice nestled down in the cart. Uusually there were three kinds vanilla, chocolate and strawberry. straw-berry. (That was before all the crunches and ripples). He had two sizes of cones-regular cones-regular at 5? , and a little tiny one that took a scoop of ice cream just about as big as a golf ball. That one was a penny. Tempus does fugit butit'sfun to think back; fun, too,- to listen to some of the tales that old-timers old-timers tell. Some of their stories are hard to believe, but after all, in another 50 or 60 years how is it going to sound to children when grown-ups talk about automobiles that ran on gasoline?' I'm sure they'll be operated by atomic power by that time! |