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The Majestic Theater in San Antonio Texas
The Majestic Theatre was built in 1928 by Karl Hoblitzelle for his theatre chain (the Interstate Amusement Company of Dallas). Hoblitzelle began the Interstate with his brother George shortly after leaving his employment at the St. Louis World?s Fair. They scraped together $2500 with the intention of capitalizing on the lack of vaudeville type entertainment in the southwestern United States.
Lucas Film Animation
Toon in at Lucasfilm Animation. The company produces digital animation feature films, as well as content for television programs and games.
Village at the RIM, San Antonio
The Village at the RIM in San Antonio is designed around an urban village setting complete with outdoor cafes, large boulevards and some two-story buildings that feature office tenants on the second floor and retail at the street level.
Workers took down the two buildings, along with the North Fork Beer and Soda shop, which had sat empty on Route 25 for nearly two years. ...View Full Article
... know at the time as “The Weirdies”, for a soda so we could keep an eye on the Rat Hole hoping that the boys might leave and join us in the soda shop. ...View Full Article
... and Collectibles on Seminary Street, a Galesburg couple that will be opening up a old-fashioned candy and soda shop on Seminary Street November sixth; ...View Full Article
His television career began in 1950 in Cincinnati when he hosted the teen dance show "Soupy's Soda Shop," which pre-dated "American Bandstand. ...View Full Article
The Soda shop is a business akin to an ice cream parlor and a drugstore soda fountain. Interiors were often furnished with a large mirror behind a marble counter with gooseneck spouts, plus spinnin...
The Soda Shop News, History, Images and Information about Soda Shops and Diners, Food Network Interviews and Videos
The Soda shop is a business akin to an ice cream parlor and a drugstore soda fountain. Interiors were often furnished with a large mirror behind a marble counter with gooseneck spouts, plus spinning stools, round marble-topped tables and wireframe sweetheart chairs.
South Side Soda Shop Diner – Diners, Drive In’s, and Dives
The Soda Shop History
The counter-service soda fountain was introduced in 1903, and around that same time, drugstores began to attract noontime customers by adding sandwiches and light lunches. The beverage menu at a soda shop usually included ice cream sodas, chocolate malteds, fountain colas and milkshakes. A 1915 issue of Soda Fountain magazine stated: “The soda fountain of today is an ally of temperance… Ice cream soda is a greater medium for the cause of temperance than all the sermon ever preached on that subject.”
There were many variations: Nashville’s Elliston Place Soda Shop began as a drugstore soda fountain but became a plate-lunch restaurant after it was bought by Lynn Chandler in 1939. During the 1930s and 1940s, the jukeboxes in such establishments made them popular gathering spots for teenagers, as noted in the Matthew Gall tune:
Moppin’ up soda pop rickies
To our hearts’ delight,
Dancing to a swingeroo quickie,
Jukebox Saturday night…
Pop Tate’s Chocklit Shoppe is a fictional soda shop created by Bob Montana as a setting for the characters in his Archie comic books and comic strips. Tate’s soda fountain was based on real-life locations frequented by teenagers in Haverhill, Massachusetts, during the 1930s—Crown Confectionery and the Chocolate Shop on Merrimack Street and the Tuscarora on Winter Street. The character of Pop Tate was inspired by the Greek immigrant owners of these Haverhill soda shops. In the years 1936 to 1939, when Montana went to high school in Haverhill, he would join his friends at the Chocolate Shop counter and make sketches on napkins. A decade prior to Archie, the Sugar Shop was a hangout for the teenagers in Carl Ed’s comic strip Harold Teen.
Ye Olde Mill (Utica, Ohio) keeps the tradition alive with a 19th-century ice cream parlor operated by the Velvet Ice Cream Company, and there are displays, working and non-working, in museums across the United States. In Fort Smith, Arkansas, the Fort Smith Museum of History has an old-style drugstore with a working soda fountain. In Medina, Ohio, America’s Ice Cream and Dairy Museum at Elm Farm has a restored 1900s soda fountain with a 20-foot green-and-white Italian marble counter, vintage ice cream freezers, scoops and milk bottles, plus restored milk and ice cream delivery trucks. The Chippewa Valley Museum (Eau Claire, Wisconsin) has a working soda fountain that operated in the Eau Claire area between 1895 and 1924.
Soda shops are often used as settings in films and TV shows. In Twilight Zone’s “Walking Distance” episode
a soda shop serves as a framing device and is a link to the past for Martin Sloan (Gig Young). Soda shops figure prominently in many movies, including Harold Teen (1934), Orson Welles’ The Stranger (1946), Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (1952) and Pleasantville (1998).
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Bubba Gump Shrimp Company
The Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. Restaurant and Market is a chain of seafood restaurants inspired by the 1994 film Forrest Gump.
The Food NetWork
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