Soda Fountain
by Nina Prommer
Title
Soda Fountain
Artist
Nina Prommer
Medium
Photograph - Photo
Description
This Soda Fountain is old school. A soda fountain is a device that dispenses carbonated soft drinks, called fountain drinks. They can be found in restaurants, concession stands and other locations such as convenience stores. The device combines flavored syrup or syrup concentrate and carbon dioxide with chilled and purified water to make soft drinks, either manually, or in a vending machine which is essentially an automated soda fountain that is operated using a soda gun. Today, the syrup often is pumped from a special container called a bag-in-box.
A soda fountain is also referred to as a postmix machine in some markets. Any brand of soft drink that is available as postmix syrup may be dispensed by a fountain.
The term may also refer to a small eating establishment, common in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, often within a pharmacy or other business, where a soda jerk served soda beverages, ice cream, and sometimes light meals. The soda jerk's fountain generally dispensed only unflavored carbonated water, to which syrup was added by hand.
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May 24th, 2015
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Comments (12)
P J Lewis
Love these old soda fountains / diners, etc.! Great capture and interesting description. I also would like to see this maybe in sepia without the dummy behind the counter. I like all your pictures of signs, too!
Chrisann Ellis
Nina, Your Work has been Featured On The Home Page of Weekly Fun For All Mediums..Happy Days..Congrats!!!