What is "soda fountains"

Usage examples of "soda fountains".

I walked uphill and downhill in a vicinity of four blocks on Russian Hill and found nothing but laundromats, cleaners, soda fountains, beauty parlors.

Missing, also, were the two hardware stores, the half dozen or so grocery stores, the three sweetshops with soda fountains, and Bob's Sporting Goods, where Keith had spent half his time and most of his money.

People don't wipe their necks much anymore or drink sweating glasses of lemonade or lay their bare arms gratefully on cool marble soda fountains because nowadays summer heat is something out there, something experienced only briefly when you sprint from your parking lot to your office or from your office to the luncheon counter down the block.

Everything revolved around Arty, from our routes and sites to the syrup flavors in the soda fountains.

Now it might have been transplanted from small-town America, a jumble of bars, soda fountains, and souvenir stores.

The term derives via a roundabout route from a number code allegedly in wide use in 1920s diners and soda fountains.

Other men can set up boys in candy stores with soda fountains that have only two spigots.

And, going to the movies, you stopped at the sweet shop next door for candy and popcorn, and after the show you came back to the same sweet shop for a malt or the corner drugstore for a Coke, and you lolled at those soda fountains until midnight with all your friends.

Then I was glad enough for the break when we walked across the hundredth-story level, between the soda fountains and the clothing shops, to the next bank of elevators, and then the next.

Wide walkways, tranquil lagoons, steamswans, many-storied teaching buildings of neoglass and bright metal, bookspool-shops, soda fountains, cafeterias, burgerpits, at least three hospitals, tennis courts, airball fields, used steamcar dealers, robot repair shops.

The milkman, the fiery, untamed omnibus horses, the soda fountains, Central Park, and those things?