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2 unusual facts about Soda fountain


Soda fountain

The soda fountain began in Europe, but achieved its greatest success in the U.S. Benjamin Silliman, a Yale chemistry professor, was among the first to introduce soda water to America.

Many civilizations believed that drinking and/or bathing in these mineral waters cured diseases, and large industries often sprang up around hot springs, such as Bath in England or the many onsen of Japan.


Soda sữa hột gà

Soda sữa hột gà shares some similarities with egg cream, a fountain beverage of New York City origin, though egg cream contains no eggs, and no historical link between the two has been proposed.

Yakima Valley Museum

The Museum Soda Fountain is a functioning replica of a late 1930s Art Deco soda fountain.


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Fresca

American President Lyndon B. Johnson had a soda fountain containing Fresca installed in the Oval Office.

History of the Panama Canal

To begin with, a number of clubhouses were built, managed by the YMCA, which contained billiard rooms, an assembly room, a reading room, bowling alleys, dark rooms for the camera clubs, gymnastic equipment, an ice cream parlor and soda fountain, and a circulating library.

Margie's Candies

Some of its trademark features are its multiple original Tiffany lamps, a marble soda fountain, and old-fashioned booths with miniature jukeboxes.

Nunda, New York

According to town folklore, Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant once ate lunch at the now-closed soda fountain on State Street.

Pinehurst Resort

Pinehurst was founded by Boston soda fountain magnate James Walker Tufts.