Old-Fashioned Soda Fountains

A Troy pharmacy that kept its lunch counter running.

Troy

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

Hanceville

An 1869 Scottsboro institution famous for orangeade and pimento cheese.

Scottsboro

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

Foley

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

Phoenix

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

South Pasadena

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

San Francisco

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

Lake City

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

Fort Collins

A Connecticut bottler pouring spring-water soda since 1912.

Windham

A Forgotten Coast drug store fountain in a 1905 storefront.

Apalachicola

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

Athens

Downtown Valdosta drug store on Patterson Street.

Valdosta

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

Pharmacy in Forsyth, rated 4.9 by locals.

Forsyth, GA

Pharmacy in Cairo, rated 4.4 by locals.

Cairo, GA

Pharmacy in Hapeville, rated 4.8 by locals.

Hapeville, GA

Pharmacy in Columbus, rated 4.2 by locals.

Columbus, GA

Pharmacy in Fairmount, rated 4.5 by locals.

Fairmount, GA

Pharmacy in Washington, rated 4.9 by locals.

Washington, GA

Dessert Shop in Americus.

Americus, GA

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

Cumming

Clayton Street pharmacy that has anchored downtown Athens for decades.

Athens

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

Savannah

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

Bishop

Coffee Shop in Savannah, rated 4.9 by locals.

Savannah, GA

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

Cleveland, GA

Restaurant in Stockbridge, rated 5 by locals.

Stockbridge, GA

Ice Cream Shop in LaGrange, rated 5 by locals.

LaGrange, GA

Hamburger Restaurant in Moultrie, rated 4.2 by locals.

Moultrie, GA

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

Cleveland, GA

Pharmacy in Union Point, rated 4.8 by locals.

Union Point, GA

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

Boise

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

Girard

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

Chicago

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

Chicago

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

Goshen

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

Columbus

A Clear Lake counter two blocks from the Surf Ballroom.

Clear Lake

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

Allerton

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

Wilton

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

Howard

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

Baxter Springs

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

Quinter

Public-square soda bar in Todd County, Kentucky.

Elkton

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

Midway

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

Old Orchard Beach

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

Damariscotta

A 1922 Michigan candy kitchen with its original fountain intact.

Dowagiac

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

Montague

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

Saugatuck

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

Park Rapids

Mississippi's oldest drug store, pouring since 1865.

Corinth

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

Jackson

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

Independence

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

St. Louis

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

Kalispell

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

Ennis

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

Plattsmouth

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

Ely

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

Newfields

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

Madrid

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

Brooklyn

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

Queens

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

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

New York

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

Southampton

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

New Bern

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

Fountain

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

Brevard

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

Forest City

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

Davidson

A downtown Anadarko fountain and eatery on Broadway.

Anadarko

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

Portland

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

Mechanicsburg

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

Pittsburgh

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

Philadelphia

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

Walterboro

Upstate South Carolina Rexall with the fountain intact.

Inman

A Murrells Inlet apothecary that still runs a proper fountain.

Murrells Inlet

Greenville's 1947 neighborhood counter, unchanged and unbothered.

Greenville

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

Mount Pleasant

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

Wall

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

Nashville

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

Oak Ridge

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

Brownsville

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

Lynnville

Railroad-depot town soda shop on the Cumberland Plateau.

Monterey

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

Cross Plains

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

Rosenberg

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

Buda

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

Waxahachie

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

Fort Davis

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

Kingsville

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

McAllen

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

Port Neches

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

Coleman

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

Galveston

A West Texas main-street fountain in Ballinger.

Ballinger

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

Burlington

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

Chesapeake

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

Mechanicsville

Eastern Shore pharmacy fountain a block from the Chesapeake Bay.

Cape Charles

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

Charlottesville

A neighborhood Richmond fountain doing lunch and shakes all day.

Richmond

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

Yakima

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

Seattle

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

Steilacoom

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

Fountain City

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

Ephraim

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

Chugwater

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

Casper