- Historic Fountain
- Retro Parlor
- Dirty Soda
- Candy Shop
- Stamped
- A Cone to Pick
Canton, GA · ★ 4.8
An ice cream parlor inside an antique store, built along a long mid-century main street fountain counter.
- ADD DRUG
Athens · ★ 4.6
Five Points institution: pharmacy up front, soda and sandwiches at the counter.
- Another Time Soda Fountain & Cafe
Rosenberg · ★ 4.5
A vintage fountain and cafe in Rosenberg's historic downtown.
- Batson's Drug Store
Howard · ★ 5
A Flint Hills drugstore counter that never modernized and never needed to.
- Beal's Old Fashioned Ice Cream
Gorham · ★ 4.7
Maine's beloved 1947 creamery, still making every flavor in small batches.
- Bell's Family Pharmacy Soda Fountain
Tate, GA · ★ 4.9
A pharmacy soda tradition carried on since 1947, with sixteen daily flavors scooped behind the counter.
- Big Ed's Soda Grill in Vermilion, OH
Vermilion · ★ 4.7
A Lake Erie harbor-town grill with a fountain counter and a jukebox soul.
- Big Top Candy Shop
Austin · ★ 4.6
A circus-themed South Congress candy shop with a real soda fountain.
- Birthplace of Pepsi Cola
New Bern · ★ 4.6
The New Bern corner where Caleb Bradham invented Pepsi-Cola in 1898.
- BJ's Velvet Freez
Colorado Springs · ★ 4.7
A 1950s Colorado Springs walk-up window still slinging soft serve.
- Blooms Candy & Soda Pop Shop
Carrollton · ★ 4.7
Downtown Carrollton's candy shop with a serious bottled soda wall.
- Blue Sun Soda Shop
Stillwater · ★ 4.9
A Stillwater shop with over a thousand bottled sodas from around the world.
- Bonnie Brae Ice Cream
Denver · ★ 4.7
Denver's Bonnie Brae neighborhood parlor, lines out the door since 1986.
- Brooklyn Farmacy & Soda Fountain
Brooklyn · ★ 4.5
A 1920s Carroll Gardens apothecary reborn as Brooklyn's best-loved fountain.
- Buda Drug Store and Soda Fountain
Buda · ★ 4.7
A restored Hill Country drugstore fountain on Buda's Railroad Street.
Buford Station CreameryBuford, GA
Set in a 1900s building in historic downtown Buford, hung with vintage photos and local memorabilia.
- Historic FountainByrd Drug Soda Fountain/Lunch Counter
Troy · ★ 4.7
A Troy pharmacy that kept its lunch counter running.
- Caruso Candy & Soda Fountain Since 1922
Dowagiac · ★ 4.7
A 1922 Michigan candy kitchen with its original fountain intact.
- CAST IRON CREAMERY - Scoop Shop & Waffle Bar
Winder · ★ 4.8
Scoop shop and waffle bar on the Winder square.
- Chantilly Goods Ice Cream Shoppe
Weissport · ★ 4.6
A Lehigh Valley ice cream shoppe on the towpath in tiny Weissport.
- Chugwater Soda Fountain
Chugwater · ★ 4.6
Wyoming's oldest soda fountain, still pouring in tiny Chugwater.
- Clinton's Soda Fountain
Independence · ★ 4.5
Harry Truman's first job: an 1865 drugstore fountain on the Independence square.
- Crown Candy Kitchen
St. Louis · ★ 4.7
St. Louis's 1913 candy kitchen, home of the malt challenge and a legendary BLT.
- Deadwood Soda Saloon
Deadwood · ★ 4.9
A Main Street Deadwood saloon that serves sarsaparilla instead of whiskey.
- Doyle's Ice Cream Parlor
Spokane · ★ 4.8
A neighborhood Spokane parlor scooping big splits under bright lights.
- Durango Soda Co Inc.
Durango · ★ 4.5
Durango's craft bottler behind ZuberFizz, cane-sugar sodas by the case.
- Eckels Ice Cream Fountain
Mechanicsburg · ★ 4.6
A Main Street Mechanicsburg fountain making its own ice cream since 1946.
- Economy Drug & Old Fashioned Fountain
Ely · ★ 4.4
A century-old Nevada drugstore fountain on the loneliest road in America.
- Eddie's Sweet Shop
Queens · ★ 4.4
Queens' oldest ice cream parlor, unchanged behind its wooden booths since 1909.
- Elliston Place Soda Shop
Nashville · ★ 4.5
Nashville's oldest counter still spins malts under neon and pink vinyl.
- Fair Oaks Pharmacy
South Pasadena · ★ 4.2
A 1915 Route 66 pharmacy in South Pasadena with its fountain intact.
- Fairley's Pharmacy Inc
Portland · ★ 4.2
A century-old Portland pharmacy that never gave up its soda counter.
- Farm Luck Soda Fountain & Dry Goods
Waxahachie · ★ 4.5
A soda fountain and dry goods store off Waxahachie's courthouse square.
- Fezziwig's Food and Fountain
Portsmouth · ★ 4.6
A Portsmouth mercantile with a Dickensian candy hall and a working fountain.
- Fizzy Fox Soda Shop
Lexington · ★ 5
Lexington's dirty soda bar — cream, syrup and pellet ice over the classics.
- Fizzy's Fountain & Liquors
Omaha · ★ 4.5
An Omaha fountain that pours phosphates by day and spikes them by night.
- Forget me not soda shoppe
Middleburgh · ★ 4.8
A Schoharie Valley soda shoppe built on nostalgia and nickel-plated syrup pumps.
- Fort Davis Drug Store Hotel
Fort Davis · ★ 4.3
A West Texas drug store, hotel and fountain in the Davis Mountains.
- Freddie's Dirty Soda
Bennington · ★ 5
Bennington's take on the dirty soda counter, cream and syrup over pebble ice.
- Frosty Caboose
Chamblee, GA · ★ 4.7
Set in a converted train caboose, this spot crafts frozen treats like sundaes with lots of toppings.
- Frosty’s Griddle and Shake
St Simons Island, GA · ★ 4.2
Hamburger Restaurant in St Simons Island, rated 4.2 by locals.
- Galco's Old World Grocery
Los Angeles · ★ 4.8
LA's legendary Soda Pop Stop, hundreds of bottles in a Highland Park grocery.
- Ghirardelli Soda Fountain & Chocolate Shop
Los Angeles · ★ 4.4
A chocolate-house soda fountain on Hollywood Boulevard.
- Glades Soda Fountain
Gatlinburg · ★ 4.8
A Smokies arts-community stop stacked wall-to-wall with glass-bottle soda.
- Good Vibes Ice Cream Shop & Soda Pop
Dunwoody, GA · ★ 4.2
Dessert Shop in Dunwoody, rated 4.2 by locals.
- Goodson Drug Co
Cumming · ★ 4.7
Cumming’s downtown drug store with a genuine fountain counter still pouring.
- Hanceville Drug Company
Hanceville · ★ 4.9
Cullman County drug store where the soda fountain is the front room.
- Hildebrandt's
Williston Park · ★ 4.3
A Long Island luncheonette and candy counter still spinning since 1927.
- Hinsch's
Brooklyn · ★ 3.9
Bay Ridge's neon-lit counter, saved by neighbors who refused to let it close.
- Horton's Drug Store
Athens · ★ 4
Clayton Street pharmacy that has anchored downtown Athens for decades.
- Hosmer Mountain Bottling Co
Windham · ★ 4.8
A Connecticut bottler pouring spring-water soda since 1912.
- Ice Cream Social
Ruston · ★ 4.5
A bright parlor on Ruston Way near Point Defiance, floats and cones all summer.
- Jefferson Soda Fountain
Oak Ridge · ★ 4.6
Atomic-city drug store fountain tucked into an original Oak Ridge shopping circle.
- Jezebel Studio and Gallery, and Soda Fountain
Madrid · ★ 4.4
An art gallery and soda fountain in the old mining town of Madrid, NM.
- Juke N Jive Creamery
Braselton, GA · ★ 4.7
A family-owned 1950s-themed parlor with homemade ice cream and classic soda floats.
- Kilwins Ice Cream - Chocolate - Fudge
Alpharetta, GA · ★ 4.6
Traditional store selling chocolates, confections & fudge, as well as original recipe ice cream.
- Klavon's Ice Cream Parlor
Pittsburgh · ★ 4.6
Pittsburgh's 1923 pharmacy fountain, mothballed for decades and gloriously revived.
- Krisch's
Massapequa · ★ 4.3
A Massapequa parlor that has scooped its own ice cream for three generations.
- Lancaster Sweet Shoppe
Lancaster · ★ 4.8
A downtown Lancaster candy counter stocked with sodas your grandparents drank.
- Lee's Inlet Apothecary
Murrells Inlet · ★ 4.8
A Murrells Inlet apothecary that still runs a proper fountain.
- Lee's Pharmacy Soda Fountain
McAllen · ★ 4.6
A Rio Grande Valley pharmacy that still runs a lunch-and-soda counter.
- Leopold's Ice Cream - Broughton Street
Savannah · ★ 4.7
Savannah’s 1919 ice cream parlor — the most famous counter in Georgia.
- Lexington Candy Shop
New York · ★ 3.9
An Upper East Side luncheonette that has mixed its Cokes by hand since 1925.
- Lipka's Old Fashion Soda Fountain
Montague · ★ 4.8
A White Lake village fountain that looks untouched since the war.
- Livingston’s Soda Fountain & Grill
Brownsville · ★ 4.7
A West Tennessee square-side fountain that never stopped serving lunch.
- MacAlpine's Diner & Soda Fountain
Phoenix · ★ 4.6
Phoenix's 1928 soda fountain, the oldest still operating in Arizona.
- Magic Fountain
Summit · ★ 4.6
Summit's homemade ice cream stop, a fixture on Morris Avenue for decades.
- Mechanicsville Drug Store
Mechanicsville · ★ 4.5
Hanover County drug store with the counter still in daily use.
- Meltdown Ice Cream & Soda Fountain
Bowling Green · ★ 4.8
Bowling Green shop pairing small-batch ice cream with a soda counter.
- Midway Classic Malt Shop
San Diego · ★ 4.9
A checkerboard-floor malt shop near San Diego's Midway museum.
- Mike's Old Fashioned Soda Fountain
Port Neches · ★ 4.9
A Southeast Texas fountain built the old way in Port Neches.
- Minnesoda Fountain
Park Rapids · ★ 4.3
A northwoods Main Street fountain fueling Itasca-bound road trips.
- Monarch Pharmacy & Soda Fountain
Baxter Springs · ★ 4.8
A working Kansas pharmacy on Route 66 that kept its soda fountain.
- Norm's Soda Fountain
Kalispell · ★ 4.6
Main Street Kalispell's fountain since the 1930s, on the road to Glacier.
- Northern Soda Company
New Brighton · ★ 4.9
A Twin Cities craft bottler with a taproom of soda on draft.
- Northgate Soda Shop
Greenville · ★ 4.6
Greenville's 1947 neighborhood counter, unchanged and unbothered.
- O'Neils Confectionery and Soda Fountain
La Conner · ★ 4.9
A tiny waterfront confectionery in La Conner with a working soda fountain.
- Ocean Park Soda Fountain
Old Orchard Beach · ★ 4.6
A Maine beach-colony fountain a hundred yards from the surf.
- Old Time Soda Fountain
Apalachicola · ★ 4.5
A Forgotten Coast drug store fountain in a 1905 storefront.
- Old Time Soda Fountain
Allerton · ★ 4.8
A tiny southern Iowa fountain on the square in Allerton, population 500.
- Outpost Oconee
Watkinsville · ★ 4.9
General store on Watkinsville’s Main Street with an ice cream counter.
- Owl Drug Store
Coleman · ★ 4.8
A 1920s Central Texas drugstore fountain still on the courthouse square.
- Payne's Sandwich Shop and Soda Fountain
Scottsboro · ★ 4.8
An 1869 Scottsboro institution famous for orangeade and pimento cheese.
- Pecan Jacks Ice Cream & Candy - West Midtown Atlanta
Atlanta, GA · ★ 4.9
Ice Cream Shop in Atlanta, rated 4.9 by locals.
- Pete & Belle's Ice Cream Shop
Spokane Valley · ★ 4.7
A cheerful Spokane Valley scoop shop with floats and old-school sundaes.
- Picker Joe's Coffee & Vintage Soda Shop
Savannah, GA · ★ 4.9
Coffee Shop in Savannah, rated 4.9 by locals.
- Pitt Street Pharmacy
Mount Pleasant · ★ 4.8
Old Village pharmacy with a lunch counter Charleston refuses to give up.
- Plain Peanuts and General Store
Plains · ★ 4.7
Plains general store with peanut everything and an ice cream case.
- Pop The Top Soda Shop
Talladega · ★ 4.5
A Talladega bottle shop stacked with sodas from all fifty states.
- Purple Penguin Candy Emporium
Tucson · ★ 4.9
Tucson's nostalgia candy emporium with a soda cooler to match.
- R.A. Fountain General Store
Fountain · ★ 4.8
A general store in the town of Fountain, NC — the name is not a coincidence.
- Railroad Drug & Oldetime Soda
Midway · ★ 4.7
Midway's depot-town drug store with an old-time soda counter.
- Ray's Ice Cream
Royal Oak · ★ 4.7
Royal Oak's homemade ice cream stop since 1958, still with a line out the door.
- Rayfield Fountain
Cape Charles · ★ 4.4
Eastern Shore pharmacy fountain a block from the Chesapeake Bay.
- Reds Soda Fountain and Ice Cream
Sevierville · ★ 4.9
Downtown Sevierville's corner scoop shop with a proper marble-style counter.
- Retro Sips Soda Shop
Cumming, GA · ★ 5
North metro Atlanta's custom dirty soda shop — decade-themed menu, lip-shaped bench, arcade in the corner.
- River House Soda Fountain & Cafe
Plattsmouth · ★ 4.8
A Missouri River town fountain in Plattsmouth's restored Main Street.
- Rocket Fizz
Marietta, GA · ★ 4.6
Retailer offering a huge selection of candy & bottled sodas in innovative flavors.
- Rocket Fizz
Newnan, GA · ★ 4.6
Retailer offering a huge selection of candy & bottled sodas in innovative flavors.
- Rocket Fizz Columbus
Columbus, GA · ★ 4.7
Retailer offering a huge selection of candy & bottled sodas in innovative flavors.
- Rocket Fizz Cumming
Cumming, GA · ★ 4.9
Hundreds of glass-bottle sodas and nostalgic candy under a ceiling of vintage tin signs.
- Rocket Fizz Woodstock
Woodstock, GA · ★ 4.4
Retailer offering a huge selection of candy & bottled sodas in innovative flavors.
- Rocky's Grill & Soda Shop
Brevard · ★ 4.6
Brevard's 1942 counter, the last stop before the waterfalls.
- Sacramento Sweets Co
Sacramento · ★ 4.5
A Gold Rush-era storefront making candy by hand in Old Sacramento.
- Saugatuck Drug Store
Saugatuck · ★ 4.4
A working Lake Michigan pharmacy with a genuine fountain still up front.
- Savannah's Candy Kitchen
Savannah · ★ 4.6
River Street candy hall: pralines, taffy and an ice cream counter.
- Scoot's Café & Ice Cream Emporium
Tennille, GA · ★ 5
American Restaurant in Tennille, rated 5 by locals.
- Sebring Soda & Ice Cream Works
Sebring · ★ 4.5
A Circle-side Sebring shop with two hundred bottled sodas on the shelf.
- Shug's Soda Fountain and Ice Cream
Seattle · ★ 4.5
A West Seattle counter built around a real marble fountain and classic phosphates.
- Sip'n Soda
Southampton · ★ 4.4
The Hamptons' unfussy 1958 fountain, where locals outnumber the summer crowd.
- Smith's Drugs of Forest City, Inc.
Forest City · ★ 4.3
Main Street Rutherford County pharmacy with a fountain and a grill.
- Smith's Soda Shop
Cleveland, GA · ★ 4.7
A hometown staple since 1947 — cash only, chili dogs sizzling, and Coca-Cola signs older than most of the customers.
- Historic Fountain
- Soda Jerk Diner & Dairy Bar
Hummelstown · ★ 4.5
A Hershey-adjacent dairy bar built for people who came for chocolate.
- Soda Pop Junction
Lynnville · ★ 4.5
A 1860s railroad-town storefront where the fountain shares space with a burger griddle.
- Soda Pop's #1
Oklahoma City · ★ 4.4
A neon-lit Oklahoma soda stop with hundreds of bottles on the wall.
- South Side Soda Shop
Goshen · ★ 4.5
A Goshen roadside shop where pie and phosphates share the same counter.
- Spinning J Bakery and Soda Fountain
Chicago · ★ 4.8
Humboldt Park's bakery-fountain hybrid, reviving Chicago phosphate culture.
- Squamscot Old Fashioned Beverages
Newfields · ★ 4.7
New Hampshire's Conner family has bottled soda by hand since 1863.
- St. Francis Fountain
San Francisco · ★ 4.5
San Francisco's oldest ice cream parlor, on 24th Street since 1918.
- St. James General Store
Saint James · ★ 4.7
America's oldest continuously operating general store, candy jars and all.
- Stacey’s Olde Tyme Soda Fountain
Foley · ★ 4.8
Foley's 1929 drug store fountain, still in its original storefront.
- Star Drug Store
Galveston · ★ 4.6
Texas's oldest drugstore, with a Coca-Cola stained-glass fountain in Galveston.
- Sweet Peaks Ice Cream Missoula
Missoula · ★ 4.7
Small-batch Montana ice cream on Missoula's Front Street.
- Sweeties Soda Shoppe
Cleveland · ★ 4.5
Cleveland's candy warehouse with a full soda shoppe and a wall of glass bottles.
- The Bair at The Bair Drug & Hardware
Steilacoom · ★ 4.4
An 1895 drug and hardware store in Washington's oldest town, fountain intact.
- The Candy Bar on Tejon
Colorado Springs · ★ 4.1
Downtown Colorado Springs' candy shop with a wall of glass-bottle sodas.
- The Corner Store: Soda Fountain & Gifts
Fountain City · ★ 4.9
A Mississippi River bluff-town fountain in a village literally named Fountain City.
- The Farmacy Soda Fountain & Coffee House
Ida Grove · ★ 5
A western Iowa fountain and coffee house sharing one small-town counter.
- The Fountain
Clinton · ★ 4.7
A Clinton confectionery pairing house-made candy with a proper ice cream soda.
- The Fountain Ice Cream & Deli
Bath · ★ 4.6
A Front Street counter in shipbuilding Bath, half deli and half fountain.
- The Fountain on Locust
St. Louis · ★ 4.7
An Art Deco fountain in Midtown pouring ice cream into martini glasses.
- The Franklin Fountain
Philadelphia · ★ 4.5
Old City's turn-of-the-century fountain, recreated down to the soda jerk's bow tie.
- The Jerks
Cartersville, GA · ★ 4.6
A full-service late-Victorian soda fountain inside a restored 19th-century building on the downtown square.
- The Scoop Deli & Ice Cream
Thomasville · ★ 4.6
Deli and ice cream counter on Thomasville’s brick main street.
- The Scoop Soda Shoppe
Amityville · ★ 4.9
A bright Amityville shoppe stacking modern shakes on a classic fountain frame.
- The Silver Lining Creamery
Fargo · ★ 4.7
A downtown Fargo creamery scooping made-in-house flavors on Broadway.
- The Soda Fountain Cafe
Cleveland, GA · ★ 4.6
A sit-down burger joint built around a genuine vintage fountain counter, minutes from Smith's.
- The Soda Fountain of Venice
Venice · ★ 4.3
Venice Avenue's chrome-and-red-vinyl fountain, loud and busy.
- The Stirling Fountain
Long Hill · ★ 4.6
A Long Hill township fountain doing lunch counter duty for the whole town.
- The Sweet Spot
St. Augustine · ★ 4.7
St. George Street candy stop with fountain drinks and fudge slabs.
- The Venetian Soda Lounge
Burlington · ★ 4.6
Burlington's soda lounge, reviving a Vermont ginger ale recipe from 1911.
- Timberlake's Drug Store
Charlottesville · ★ 4.6
An 1890 Charlottesville drug store with a Main Street lunch counter.
- Tribute Soda Fountain
Pine Island · ★ 4.6
A Pine Island fountain built as a tribute to the town's lost drugstore counter.
- Union Bar & Soda Fountain
Fort Collins · ★ 4.5
Old Town Fort Collins' hybrid of soda fountain and bar.
- Village Records and Anyday Sundae Soda Fountain
Stonington
A Stonington record shop with a soda fountain wedged in the back.
- Wall Drug Store
Wall · ★ 4.2
The billboard empire of the plains, born from a sign offering free ice water.
- Waltz Soda Fountain
Damariscotta · ★ 4.5
A midcoast Maine soda fountain tucked inside a Main Street newsstand.
- Waynesville Soda Jerks
Waynesville · ★ 4.8
Waynesville's craft soda bar making syrups from Appalachian fruit.
- Wayside Country Store
Marlborough · ★ 4.6
A 1790 country store with penny candy bins and cold glass-bottle soda.
- West Orange Creamery and Soda Fountain
Ocoee · ★ 4.7
West Orange County creamery with a soda counter in the back.
- Wilson's Restaurant & Ice Cream Parlor
Ephraim · ★ 4.6
Door County's yellow-and-orange striped landmark, scooping since 1906.
- Wilton Candy Kitchen
Wilton · ★ 4.8
Claimed as the world's oldest ice cream parlor and soda fountain, open since 1860.
- Wittich's Candy Shop
Circleville · ★ 4.7
America's oldest family-run candy store, pouring sodas since before the Civil War.
- Yesterday's Soda Fountain and Restaurant
Ennis · ★ 4.4
A fly-fishing town fountain on Ennis's Main Street.
- Zaharakos
Columbus · ★ 4.3
A 1900 ice cream palace with Mexican onyx counters and a working pipe organ.
- Zeb's General Store
Conway · ★ 4.7
A White Mountains general store stacked floor to ceiling with regional soda.