by cameo-d 31 Replies latest jw friends
FlyingHighNow:
I looked at that picture before I read your post and I thought that looks like Tucker. I live about 15 minutes from that spot.
I have vague memories of the soda fountain at Woolworths. They closed the last Woolworth's in Atlanta about 25 years ago. I don't really remember vanilla cokes or cherry cokes. They were a little before my time.
Burger King here is called "Hungry Jacks" due to a small shop in Adeliade Australia owning the name "Burger King"....they have a machine that gives free soft drink refills....sometimes when I'm feeling "brave" I mix different soft drinks to make a "poor mans" cherry Cola!
Does anyone remember those dorky soda jerk uniforms? The pointy hats?
In my area, Walgreen's was the first to institute "the uniform".
I don't remember the uniforms but the picture of the soda fountaim above is very simular to the one in our town.
When my Dad was a teenager, he use to work for Dove Candies in Chicago. He ran the Soda fountain. It had to be about 1950 give or take a couple of years. When we were little, fast forward to the mid to late 1960,'s, he always knew where the best shakes, malts, sodas, etc. were.
Our favorite place was in Wisconsin on the way to visit cousins, an 8 hour road trip, but always split up by this stop.
A very small town, but they had the best shakes, fries and burgers you've ever had in your life. Just the Old time bar stools and a row of booths behind. Painted that pale color green inside with the grill in front of the Bar stools.
Chocolate shakes were my fav, after that black cows!
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Hi Cameo:
I just now remembered that my dad was a soda jerk in the 1930s.
As a kid I had my vanilla shakes [still my fave flavor] at Woolworths, then later, for 25 cents, at a small-town creamery in the Midwest.
CoCoCoLa
Hey! Did anyone of you ever play "pop the balloon" for a Banana Split?
Our favorite place was in Wisconsin on the way to visit cousins, an 8 hour road trip, but always split up by this stop.
Do you remember where in Wisconsin? I'm from Cameron, which is about 8 hours north of Chicago.
