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NYTimes: "Nickel Sales Just the Tonic for a Soda Fountain’s Revival"
Wed, 09/21/11 9:17 AM
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Five-cent colas, coffee and ice cream for sale at Ava Drug, a pharmacy in Missouri, have been taking older generations back to the ’50s while drawing in a new crowd.
AVA, Mo. — A child takes a stool at a soda fountain, drops a nickel on the counter and orders a chocolate ice cream cone. This nostalgic tableau — backed by ’50s tunes piping out of a jukebox — is fodder for the brush strokes of Norman Rockwell paintings and when-I-was-your-age stories spun by grandparents.
Crowds of customers old and young — like Tiffany Jackson, 9, center, and Brianna Robertson, 11 — led Ava Drug in Ava, Mo., to keep its promotional drink and ice cream prices. But it also comes to life here at Ava Drug, where pocket change still goes a long way. ...
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http://www.nytimes.com/20...nto-pharmacy.html?_r=1
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