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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1959
Page
2
Hal Boyle recalls a legendary soda fountain worker known for a unique stagecraft and a fixed set of duties. He dominated the town’s coolest spot with a “miracle of ice cream, syrup and romance” and a knack for sales beyond beverages.
The passage reflects on a past era of family life and drugstores with basement and back areas, moldy scents, and the old soda fountain. It recalls the soda jerker era, drawers of patent medicines, and the intimate, almost ceremonial role of the drugstore before antiseptic modernity.
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