soda fountain

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Never mind that it was said to have been dreamed up by kids at a soda fountain that Short frequented and referred mainly to her upswept hairdo.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

Department stores, antiques shops and an old-fashioned soda fountain visited by generations have come and gone from the city’s historic core, but the park and its electric tile fountain have endured.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 26, 2025

At times, I found myself fantasizing about nothing else in the world but the satisfying clunk of a torrent of ice from a self-serve soda fountain.

From Salon • Sep. 2, 2023

This may come from the same infatuation with simpler-times America as Crow’s soda fountain, but in a more masculine, rugged form, and without any plausible personal connection.

From Slate • Aug. 12, 2023

At the drugstore soda fountain, she watched him tuck a napkin into his shirt collar be-fore eating his sundae.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides