In 2023, if you visit a pharmacy, 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 tonic 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.
But over the last 70 years, most soda fountains have closed.
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If you went to a pharmacy 100 years ago, what might you do while waiting for your medicine?
eat lunch
watch a movie
pet a horse
see a band play
What is s definition of the word soda fountain?
a machine that dispenses small articles such as food, drinks, or cigarettes when a coin, bill, or token is inserted
a type of arcade game
a device or structure that sends a stream of water into the air in a garden, park, etc
a small soft drink dispenser; a place where one can buy soft drinks and food