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An ice cream parlor inside an antique store, built along a long mid-century main street fountain counter.

Canton, GA

Five Points institution: pharmacy up front, soda and sandwiches at the counter.

Athens

Ice Cream Shop in Carrollton, rated 4.7 by locals.

Carrollton, GA

Eastern Wyoming's drive-up soda shop in Torrington.

Torrington

A Sheridan Avenue soda saloon in Buffalo Bill's Cody.

Cody

A vintage fountain and cafe in Rosenberg's historic downtown.

Rosenberg

Small-batch creamery on the north side of Valdosta.

Valdosta

Downtown Valdosta drug store on Patterson Street.

Valdosta

A Flint Hills drugstore counter that never modernized and never needed to.

Howard

Maine's beloved 1947 creamery, still making every flavor in small batches.

Gorham

Pharmacy in Conyers, rated 4.8 by locals.

Conyers, GA

A pharmacy soda tradition carried on since 1947, with sixteen daily flavors scooped behind the counter.

Tate, GA

A Payson, Utah soda shop for the small-town version of the ritual.

Payson

Missoula's walk-up ice cream institution on South Higgins.

Missoula

A Lake Erie harbor-town grill with a fountain counter and a jukebox soul.

Vermilion

Ice Cream Shop in Atlanta, rated 4.5 by locals.

Atlanta, GA

A circus-themed South Congress candy shop with a real soda fountain.

Austin

The New Bern corner where Caleb Bradham invented Pepsi-Cola in 1898.

New Bern

A Bitterroot Valley soda shack mixing dirty sodas to order.

Hamilton

A 1950s Colorado Springs walk-up window still slinging soft serve.

Colorado Springs

Downtown Carrollton's candy shop with a serious bottled soda wall.

Carrollton

A Stillwater shop with over a thousand bottled sodas from around the world.

Stillwater

Denver's Bonnie Brae neighborhood parlor, lines out the door since 1986.

Denver

Mississippi's oldest drug store, pouring since 1865.

Corinth

Fondren's 1946 drug store fountain, preserved down to the neon.

Jackson

A 1920s Carroll Gardens apothecary reborn as Brooklyn's best-loved fountain.

Brooklyn

A restored Hill Country drugstore fountain on Buda's Railroad Street.

Buda

Set in a 1900s building in historic downtown Buford, hung with vintage photos and local memorabilia.

Buford, GA

A Troy pharmacy that kept its lunch counter running.

Troy

A Newton institution serving frappes and absurd sundaes since 1969.

Newton

Old Sacramento's wall-to-wall bulk candy and glass-bottle sodas.

Sacramento

A 1922 Michigan candy kitchen with its original fountain intact.

Dowagiac

Scoop shop and waffle bar on the Winder square.

Winder

Pharmacy in Forsyth, rated 4.9 by locals.

Forsyth, GA

Pharmacy in Cairo, rated 4.4 by locals.

Cairo, GA

A Lehigh Valley ice cream shoppe on the towpath in tiny Weissport.

Weissport

Pharmacy in Hapeville, rated 4.8 by locals.

Hapeville, GA

A Clear Lake counter two blocks from the Surf Ballroom.

Clear Lake

South Cumming scoop shop with a big flavor board and bigger cones.

Cumming

Wyoming's oldest soda fountain, still pouring in tiny Chugwater.

Chugwater

Harry Truman's first job: an 1865 drugstore fountain on the Independence square.

Independence

Ice Cream Shop in Dahlonega, rated 4.4 by locals.

Dahlonega, GA

Pine Avenue scoop shop in downtown Albany.

Albany

St. Louis's 1913 candy kitchen, home of the malt challenge and a legendary BLT.

St. Louis

A Main Street Deadwood saloon that serves sarsaparilla instead of whiskey.

Deadwood

Roadside candy factory on US-84 in Boston, Georgia.

Boston

Pharmacy in Columbus, rated 4.2 by locals.

Columbus, GA

Utah's dirty soda craze, transplanted to a Warren County roadside.

Belvidere

An 1884 Route 66 drugstore fountain, museum and lunch counter in one.

Girard

A neighborhood Spokane parlor scooping big splits under bright lights.

Spokane

Durango's craft bottler behind ZuberFizz, cane-sugar sodas by the case.

Durango

A Main Street Mechanicsburg fountain making its own ice cream since 1946.

Mechanicsburg

A century-old Nevada drugstore fountain on the loneliest road in America.

Ely

Queens' oldest ice cream parlor, unchanged behind its wooden booths since 1909.

Queens

Nashville's oldest counter still spins malts under neon and pink vinyl.

Nashville

A 1915 Route 66 pharmacy in South Pasadena with its fountain intact.

South Pasadena

A century-old Portland pharmacy that never gave up its soda counter.

Portland

Pharmacy in Fairmount, rated 4.5 by locals.

Fairmount, GA

A soda fountain and dry goods store off Waxahachie's courthouse square.

Waxahachie

Diner in Cornelia, rated 4.4 by locals.

Cornelia, GA

A Portsmouth mercantile with a Dickensian candy hall and a working fountain.

Portsmouth

Pharmacy in Washington, rated 4.9 by locals.

Washington, GA

Lexington's dirty soda bar — cream, syrup and pellet ice over the classics.

Lexington

An Omaha fountain that pours phosphates by day and spikes them by night.

Omaha

A Schoharie Valley soda shoppe built on nostalgia and nickel-plated syrup pumps.

Middleburgh

A West Texas drug store, hotel and fountain in the Davis Mountains.

Fort Davis

Bennington's take on the dirty soda counter, cream and syrup over pebble ice.

Bennington

Set in a converted train caboose, this spot crafts frozen treats like sundaes with lots of toppings.

Chamblee, GA

Hamburger Restaurant in St Simons Island, rated 4.2 by locals.

St Simons Island, GA

LA's legendary Soda Pop Stop, hundreds of bottles in a Highland Park grocery.

Los Angeles

Bozeman's small-batch scoop shop just off Main.

Bozeman

Dessert Shop in Americus.

Americus, GA

A chocolate-house soda fountain on Hollywood Boulevard.

Los Angeles

A Smokies arts-community stop stacked wall-to-wall with glass-bottle soda.

Gatlinburg

Dessert Shop in Dunwoody, rated 4.2 by locals.

Dunwoody, GA

Cumming’s downtown drug store with a genuine fountain counter still pouring.

Cumming

Boise's North End fountain in the old Hyde Park storefronts.

Boise

Cullman County drug store where the soda fountain is the front room.

Hanceville

Candy Store in Helen, rated 4.6 by locals.

Helen, GA

A South Texas drugstore fountain a block from the King Ranch.

Kingsville

A Long Island luncheonette and candy counter still spinning since 1927.

Williston Park

Bay Ridge's neon-lit counter, saved by neighbors who refused to let it close.

Brooklyn

Walterboro's downtown pharmacy counter, running since the forties.

Walterboro

Waycross bakery and sweet shop that has fed the town for decades.

Waycross

Clayton Street pharmacy that has anchored downtown Athens for decades.

Athens

A Connecticut bottler pouring spring-water soda since 1912.

Windham

Restaurant in Social Circle, rated 4.7 by locals.

Social Circle, GA

A bright parlor on Ruston Way near Point Defiance, floats and cones all summer.

Ruston

Small-batch scoops and sundaes on Post Road in west Forsyth.

Cumming

Indian River Road's long-running counter in Chesapeake.

Chesapeake

Atomic-city drug store fountain tucked into an original Oak Ridge shopping circle.

Oak Ridge

An art gallery and soda fountain in the old mining town of Madrid, NM.

Madrid

A downtown Anadarko fountain and eatery on Broadway.

Anadarko

A Wisconsin soda brand from 1974, bottling nostalgia by the case.

Random Lake

A family-owned 1950s-themed parlor with homemade ice cream and classic soda floats.

Braselton, GA

A Salem, Ohio soda works making its own syrups from scratch.

Salem

Upstate South Carolina Rexall with the fountain intact.

Inman

Traditional store selling chocolates, confections & fudge, as well as original recipe ice cream.

Alpharetta, GA

Pittsburgh's 1923 pharmacy fountain, mothballed for decades and gloriously revived.

Pittsburgh

A Massapequa parlor that has scooped its own ice cream for three generations.

Massapequa

Public-square soda bar in Todd County, Kentucky.

Elkton

A downtown Lancaster candy counter stocked with sodas your grandparents drank.

Lancaster

A Murrells Inlet apothecary that still runs a proper fountain.

Murrells Inlet

A Rio Grande Valley pharmacy that still runs a lunch-and-soda counter.

McAllen

Savannah’s 1919 ice cream parlor — the most famous counter in Georgia.

Savannah

An Upper East Side luncheonette that has mixed its Cokes by hand since 1925.

New York

A White Lake village fountain that looks untouched since the war.

Montague

A West Tennessee square-side fountain that never stopped serving lunch.

Brownsville

Ice Cream Shop in Young Harris, rated 4.9 by locals.

Young Harris, GA

Phoenix's 1928 soda fountain, the oldest still operating in Arizona.

Phoenix

Summit's homemade ice cream stop, a fixture on Morris Avenue for decades.

Summit

The Beatles ate here: Chicago's 1921 candy palace and sundae temple.

Chicago

Hanover County drug store with the counter still in daily use.

Mechanicsville

Bowling Green shop pairing small-batch ice cream with a soda counter.

Bowling Green

A checkerboard-floor malt shop near San Diego's Midway museum.

San Diego

A Southeast Texas fountain built the old way in Port Neches.

Port Neches

A northwoods Main Street fountain fueling Itasca-bound road trips.

Park Rapids

A working Kansas pharmacy on Route 66 that kept its soda fountain.

Baxter Springs

A restored 1930s soda fountain inside the Yakima Valley Museum.

Yakima

Craft soda bottled by hand in the countryside south of Athens.

Bishop

Main Street Kalispell's fountain since the 1930s, on the road to Glacier.

Kalispell

A Twin Cities craft bottler with a taproom of soda on draft.

New Brighton

Greenville's 1947 neighborhood counter, unchanged and unbothered.

Greenville

A tiny waterfront confectionery in La Conner with a working soda fountain.

La Conner

A Maine beach-colony fountain a hundred yards from the surf.

Old Orchard Beach

A Route 66 sweet shop in Williams, gateway to the Grand Canyon.

Williams

A Corinth bottle shop two blocks from the state's oldest fountain.

Corinth

A Forgotten Coast drug store fountain in a 1905 storefront.

Apalachicola

A tiny southern Iowa fountain on the square in Allerton, population 500.

Allerton

Ice cream on Madison’s antebellum main street.

Madison

General store on Watkinsville’s Main Street with an ice cream counter.

Watkinsville

A 1920s Central Texas drugstore fountain still on the courthouse square.

Coleman

An 1869 Scottsboro institution famous for orangeade and pimento cheese.

Scottsboro

Ice Cream Shop in Atlanta, rated 4.9 by locals.

Atlanta, GA

A cheerful Spokane Valley scoop shop with floats and old-school sundaes.

Spokane Valley

Coffee Shop in Savannah, rated 4.9 by locals.

Savannah, GA

Candy Store in Brunswick, rated 5 by locals.

Brunswick, GA

Old Village pharmacy with a lunch counter Charleston refuses to give up.

Mount Pleasant

Plains general store with peanut everything and an ice cream case.

Plains

Utah-style dirty soda transplanted to suburban Portland.

Beaverton

Southern Utah's Pop Drinks, cream sodas over pebble ice.

St. George

Soda shop in Newnan, rated 4.6 by locals.

Newnan, GA

A Phoenix warehouse stocking hundreds of glass-bottle sodas.

Phoenix

A Talladega bottle shop stacked with sodas from all fifty states.

Talladega

North Dakota's last small-town dairy, churning in Bottineau since 1930.

Bottineau

Tucson's nostalgia candy emporium with a soda cooler to match.

Tucson

A St. George favorite in the town where dirty soda started.

St. George

A general store in the town of Fountain, NC — the name is not a coincidence.

Fountain

Midway's depot-town drug store with an old-time soda counter.

Midway

Royal Oak's homemade ice cream stop since 1958, still with a line out the door.

Royal Oak

A high-plains pharmacy fountain on Quinter's Main Street.

Quinter

Eastern Shore pharmacy fountain a block from the Chesapeake Bay.

Cape Charles

Downtown Sevierville's corner scoop shop with a proper marble-style counter.

Sevierville

North metro Atlanta's custom dirty soda shop — decade-themed menu, lip-shaped bench, arcade in the corner.

Cumming, GA

Downtown Casper's fountain beside the old Rialto theater block.

Casper

A Missouri River town fountain in Plattsmouth's restored Main Street.

Plattsmouth

Retailer offering a huge selection of candy & bottled sodas in innovative flavors.

Marietta, GA

Retailer offering a huge selection of candy & bottled sodas in innovative flavors.

Newnan, GA

Retailer offering a huge selection of candy & bottled sodas in innovative flavors.

Columbus, GA

Hundreds of glass-bottle sodas and nostalgic candy under a ceiling of vintage tin signs.

Cumming, GA

Wall-to-wall glass-bottle sodas on the Duluth square.

Duluth

Retailer offering a huge selection of candy & bottled sodas in innovative flavors.

Woodstock, GA

Brevard's 1942 counter, the last stop before the waterfalls.

Brevard

Rolled ice cream and shakes near Georgia Southern.

Statesboro

A Gold Rush-era storefront making candy by hand in Old Sacramento.

Sacramento

A mountain-town fountain in Lake City, high in the San Juans.

Lake City

A working Lake Michigan pharmacy with a genuine fountain still up front.

Saugatuck

River Street candy hall: pralines, taffy and an ice cream counter.

Savannah

Jackson Street counter on the Americus square.

Americus

Broad Street parlor that draws all of Walton County.

Monroe

Bright small-town scoop shop just outside Athens.

Watkinsville

American Restaurant in Tennille, rated 5 by locals.

Tennille, GA

A Circle-side Sebring shop with two hundred bottled sodas on the shelf.

Sebring

A Glen Rose soda shop near the dinosaur tracks.

Glen Rose

Gulf Shores soda bar built for post-beach sugar.

Gulf Shores

A West Seattle counter built around a real marble fountain and classic phosphates.

Seattle

Poplar Street sweets shop in downtown Macon.

Macon

The Hamptons' unfussy 1958 fountain, where locals outnumber the summer crowd.

Southampton

West Georgia’s dirty soda counter on Maple Street.

Carrollton

A State Street soda lab building drinks like experiments.

Salt Lake City

Main Street Rutherford County pharmacy with a fountain and a grill.

Forest City

A hometown staple since 1947 — cash only, chili dogs sizzling, and Coca-Cola signs older than most of the customers.

Cleveland, GA

A Route 66 stop in Rolla mixing loaded sodas and hand-dipped scoops.

Rolla

Restaurant in Stockbridge, rated 5 by locals.

Stockbridge, GA

Prattville's small-batch soda bar mixing flavored Cokes to order.

Prattville

A Hershey-adjacent dairy bar built for people who came for chocolate.

Hummelstown

A 1860s railroad-town storefront where the fountain shares space with a burger griddle.

Lynnville

A downtown Sandusky soda shop steps from the Cedar Point ferry.

Sandusky

A neon-lit Oklahoma soda stop with hundreds of bottles on the wall.

Oklahoma City

A 1951 college-town counter across from Davidson's campus.

Davidson

Ice Cream Shop in LaGrange, rated 5 by locals.

LaGrange, GA

A Mills, Wyoming soda stand built for cream-and-syrup combos.

Mills

Billings' drive-up soda bar for cream-and-syrup combos.

Billings

Sioux Falls' dirty soda bar, cream and syrup over crushed ice.

Sioux Falls

Edmond, Oklahoma's take on the dirty soda lab.

Edmond

Swig's great rival, mixing named combos in downtown Provo.

Provo

A Goshen roadside shop where pie and phosphates share the same counter.

Goshen

Humboldt Park's bakery-fountain hybrid, reviving Chicago phosphate culture.

Chicago

New Hampshire's Conner family has bottled soda by hand since 1863.

Newfields

San Francisco's oldest ice cream parlor, on 24th Street since 1918.

San Francisco

America's oldest continuously operating general store, candy jars and all.

Saint James

Foley's 1929 drug store fountain, still in its original storefront.

Foley

Texas's oldest drugstore, with a Coca-Cola stained-glass fountain in Galveston.

Galveston

Small-batch Montana ice cream on Missoula's Front Street.

Missoula

A Route 66 candy shop in downtown Flagstaff.

Flagstaff

Cleveland's candy warehouse with a full soda shoppe and a wall of glass bottles.

Cleveland

The St. George original that launched the dirty soda boom.

St. George

Provo's busiest Swig window, the college-town dirty soda default.

Provo

Soda shop in Fort Oglethorpe, rated 4.6 by locals.

Fort Oglethorpe, GA

Middle Georgia candy maker just off I-75 in Forsyth.

Forsyth

Railroad-depot town soda shop on the Cumberland Plateau.

Monterey

Diner in Unadilla, rated 4.5 by locals.

Unadilla, GA

An 1895 drug and hardware store in Washington's oldest town, fountain intact.

Steilacoom

Downtown Colorado Springs' candy shop with a wall of glass-bottle sodas.

Colorado Springs

A Mississippi River bluff-town fountain in a village literally named Fountain City.

Fountain City

A western Iowa fountain and coffee house sharing one small-town counter.

Ida Grove

A Clinton confectionery pairing house-made candy with a proper ice cream soda.

Clinton

A Front Street counter in shipbuilding Bath, half deli and half fountain.

Bath

An Art Deco fountain in Midtown pouring ice cream into martini glasses.

St. Louis

Old City's turn-of-the-century fountain, recreated down to the soda jerk's bow tie.

Philadelphia

Ice Cream Shop in Richmond Hill, rated 4.8 by locals.

Richmond Hill, GA

A full-service late-Victorian soda fountain inside a restored 19th-century building on the downtown square.

Cartersville, GA

Spokane's Garland District landmark, shaped like a giant milk bottle.

Spokane

Deli and ice cream counter on Thomasville’s brick main street.

Thomasville

A bright Amityville shoppe stacking modern shakes on a classic fountain frame.

Amityville

A downtown Fargo creamery scooping made-in-house flavors on Broadway.

Fargo

College Park's throwback counter serving egg creams and phosphates.

Orlando

Hamburger Restaurant in Moultrie, rated 4.2 by locals.

Moultrie, GA

A West Texas main-street fountain in Ballinger.

Ballinger

A sit-down burger joint built around a genuine vintage fountain counter, minutes from Smith's.

Cleveland, GA

Venice Avenue's chrome-and-red-vinyl fountain, loud and busy.

Venice

A Grand Island soda counter built for Nebraska drive-up culture.

Grand Island

A small-town soda station on southwestern Wyoming's Main Street.

Lyman

Page, Arizona's soda stop between Antelope Canyon and Lake Powell.

Page

A Long Hill township fountain doing lunch counter duty for the whole town.

Long Hill

St. George Street candy stop with fountain drinks and fudge slabs.

St. Augustine

Burlington's soda lounge, reviving a Vermont ginger ale recipe from 1911.

Burlington

Salt Lake's slick modern soda bar with real fruit purees.

Salt Lake City

A working pharmacy in Cross Plains with a lunch counter out front.

Cross Plains

An 1890 Charlottesville drug store with a Main Street lunch counter.

Charlottesville

A Pine Island fountain built as a tribute to the town's lost drugstore counter.

Pine Island

Old Town Fort Collins' hybrid of soda fountain and bar.

Fort Collins

Pharmacy in Union Point, rated 4.8 by locals.

Union Point, GA

A Stonington record shop with a soda fountain wedged in the back.

Stonington

The billboard empire of the plains, born from a sign offering free ice water.

Wall

A midcoast Maine soda fountain tucked inside a Main Street newsstand.

Damariscotta

Waynesville's craft soda bar making syrups from Appalachian fruit.

Waynesville

A 1790 country store with penny candy bins and cold glass-bottle soda.

Marlborough

West Orange County creamery with a soda counter in the back.

Ocoee

A neighborhood Richmond fountain doing lunch and shakes all day.

Richmond

Door County's yellow-and-orange striped landmark, scooping since 1906.

Ephraim

Claimed as the world's oldest ice cream parlor and soda fountain, open since 1860.

Wilton

America's oldest family-run candy store, pouring sodas since before the Civil War.

Circleville

A fly-fishing town fountain on Ennis's Main Street.

Ennis

A 1900 ice cream palace with Mexican onyx counters and a working pipe organ.

Columbus

A White Mountains general store stacked floor to ceiling with regional soda.

Conway