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Soda Fountain in West Virginia Appeals to Nostalgia, Memories

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Soda1 Fountain in West Virginia Appeals to Nostalgia2, Memories

In 2023, if you visit a pharmacy3, you might be sick and in need of medicine. If you were to visit a pharmacy 100 years ago, you might go there to buy medicine. But you might also go there for a soda or tonic4 – drinks with carbonated water from a soda fountain. You might also even eat lunch while waiting for your medicine.

These businesses, called soda fountains, were widely popular in the first half of the 20th century. But over the last 70 years, most soda fountains have closed.

There are still a few soda fountains out there, however. One is in Kenova, West Virginia. It is called Griffith and Feil Drug. The business is 131 years old.

Ric Griffith is the owner of the soda fountain. He is keeping the tradition going. He explained that soda fountains were not just a place to eat lunch.

"It was a place where you had an experience. When you had a soda fountain, people would stay longer, they'd sit down, and they'd share stories," Griffith said.

Both Griffith and his daughter Heidi are pharmacists. Pharmacists are people who prepare and give out medicines in a store or hospital. Their pharmacy employees work in the back of the store, while the front is a restaurant and soda fountain. The restaurant offers daily lunch and dinner choices.

People go there not just for the food and drinks, but they also take in the retro surroundings. There is a jukebox that plays music, neon-pink signs, vintage chairs, a metal ceiling and black-and-white pictures.

Carbonated drinks became popular in the 1800s. Acid phosphate drinks were later developed. Pharmacists would mix acid phosphate into the drinks for those seeking treatments. This is why soda fountains were often found in pharmacies5.

As soda fountain manufacturing improved, so did the recipes and flavors. Food choices were then added. As customers waited on their prescriptions7, they were able to eat and have a soda.

Behind the soda fountain counters are soda "jerks" -- the people who prepare old-fashioned phosphate drinks. They are not called "jerks" because they are mean; the term "jerk" also describes the movement that is used to pull the device on the soda fountain machine that makes liquid come out.

Malli Jarrett and Nathaniel Fornash are the soda jerks at Griffith and Feil Drug.

"It's fun working at a place like this, watching all the customers come in, looking around, taking a step back in time and telling me about how a lot of them used to work here when they were younger," Jarrett said.

During the late 1950s, many small family-run pharmacies started changing their business practices. Soda fountains were replaced with shelves for food and home supplies. Government rules became stricter. And fast-food restaurants and large pharmacies became the norm.

Pharmacies with soda fountains could not keep up and many closed forever. A few stayed open as either ice cream places or gift stores. Some closed either the soda shop side or the pharmacy side of the business.

In the past five years, many of the country's oldest soda fountains, like The Highland8 Park Soda Fountain in Dallas, Texas, and The Central Drug Store in Bessemer City, North Carolina, shut down.

But in recent years, there has also been a return of soda fountains.

Ric Griffith does not have any memories of his father's original soda fountain. That is because it was removed in 1957, when Griffith was just 9 years old. In 2004, he put another soda fountain in his store.

After he reopened the soda fountain, he recalled a man and his granddaughter sitting in a booth. The man shared stories about his younger self many years earlier.

He would sit at the same booths after school and order a cherry Coke. Griffith recalls the look on the granddaughter's face as, "...wonderful... She'd never thought of her grandfather as ever having been young. He was always her grandfather."

Griffith is glad to offer a place for people to sit around the soda fountain and share stories, instead of just getting fast food.

"And so, when we preserve history, we're not just preserving artifacts," Griffith said. "We're preserving a style of living, a way of interacting. The soda fountain has blessed me in many ways."

Words in This Story

pharmacy – n. a store or part of a store in which drugs and medicines are prepared and sold

carbonated – adj. bubbles created by dissolves carbon dioxide

soda fountain – n. a small soft drink dispenser; a place where one can buy soft drinks and food

retro – adj. clothes, furniture, music and pop culture from an earlier time that are in fashion again

jukebox – n. a machine that plays music when money is put into it

acid phosphate – n. neutral flavor mixture used to make drinks slightly acidic; adds bubbles and helps carbonation of drinks when mixed with soda water

recipe – n. a set of directions for making something, especially food

prescription6 – n. a written message from a doctor that officially tells someone to use a medicine or therapy

customer – n. one that buys a product or service

booth – n. a small area that is enclosed in order to provide privacy for a person

preserve – v. to keep (something) in its original state or in good condition

interacting – n. communication and reaction to the people you are involved with


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1 soda cr3ye     
n.苏打水;汽水
参考例句:
  • She doesn't enjoy drinking chocolate soda.她不喜欢喝巧克力汽水。
  • I will freshen your drink with more soda and ice cubes.我给你的饮料重加一些苏打水和冰块。
2 nostalgia p5Rzb     
n.怀乡病,留恋过去,怀旧
参考例句:
  • He might be influenced by nostalgia for his happy youth.也许是对年轻时幸福时光的怀恋影响了他。
  • I was filled with nostalgia by hearing my favourite old song.我听到这首喜爱的旧歌,心中充满了怀旧之情。
3 pharmacy h3hzT     
n.药房,药剂学,制药业,配药业,一批备用药品
参考例句:
  • She works at the pharmacy.她在药房工作。
  • Modern pharmacy has solved the problem of sleeplessness.现代制药学已经解决了失眠问题。
4 tonic tnYwt     
n./adj.滋补品,补药,强身的,健体的
参考例句:
  • It will be marketed as a tonic for the elderly.这将作为老年人滋补品在市场上销售。
  • Sea air is Nature's best tonic for mind and body.海上的空气是大自然赋予的对人们身心的最佳补品。
5 pharmacies a19950a91ea1800ed5273a89663d2855     
药店
参考例句:
  • Still, 32 percent of the pharmacies filled the prescriptions. 但仍然有32%的药剂师配发了这两张药方。 来自互联网
  • Chinese herbal pharmacies, and traditional massage therapists in the Vancouver telephone book. 中药店,和传统的按摩师在温哥华的电话簿里。 来自互联网
6 prescription u1vzA     
n.处方,开药;指示,规定
参考例句:
  • The physician made a prescription against sea- sickness for him.医生给他开了个治晕船的药方。
  • The drug is available on prescription only.这种药只能凭处方购买。
7 prescriptions f0b231c0bb45f8e500f32e91ec1ae602     
药( prescription的名词复数 ); 处方; 开处方; 计划
参考例句:
  • The hospital of traditional Chinese medicine installed a computer to fill prescriptions. 中医医院装上了电子计算机来抓药。
  • Her main job was filling the doctor's prescriptions. 她的主要工作就是给大夫开的药方配药。
8 highland sdpxR     
n.(pl.)高地,山地
参考例句:
  • The highland game is part of Scotland's cultural heritage.苏格兰高地游戏是苏格兰文化遗产的一部分。
  • The highland forests where few hunters venture have long been the bear's sanctuary.这片只有少数猎人涉险的高山森林,一直都是黑熊的避难所。
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