﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>NYTimes: "Nickel Sales Just the Tonic for a Soda Fountain’s Revival"</title><link>http://www.roadfood.com/Forums/</link><description /><copyright>(c) Roadfood.com Discussion Board</copyright><ttl>30</ttl><item><title>NYTimes: "Nickel Sales Just the Tonic for a Soda Fountain’s Revival" (michaelcarraher)</title><description>  &amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;b&gt;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.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br&gt;  AVA, Mo. — A child takes a stool at a soda fountain, drops a nickel on the counter and orders a chocolate &lt;a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/i/ice_cream/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;ice cream&lt;/a&gt; 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.   &lt;br&gt;  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.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; But it also comes to life here at Ava Drug, where pocket change still goes a long way. ... &lt;br&gt;  READ MORE &lt;br&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/21/us/nickel-soda-fountain-puts-fizz-back-into-pharmacy.html?_r=1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/20...nto-pharmacy.html?_r=1&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;   &lt;br&gt;  &lt;/blockquote&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt;  </description><link>http://www.roadfood.com/Forums/fb.ashx?m=669189</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 09:17:50 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>