KENOVA, W.Va. (AP) The jukebox plays Chubby Checker’s “The Twist” as Malli Jarrett and Nathaniel Fornash take turns at the Griffith & Feil Drug food counter preparing old-fashioned, soda-fountain phosphate drinks. Soda fountains like this were hugely popular a century ago. Often located in pharmacies, they were a gathering spot during Prohibition when bars […]
The jukebox plays Chubby Checker s "The Twist" as Malli Jarrett and Nathaniel Fornash take turns at the Griffith & Feil Drug food counter preparing old-fashioned, soda-fountain phosphate drinks.
Chocolate phosphate, anyone? Soda fountains in pharmacies were popular gathering spots a century ago, and in some places they still are. The drinks come mixed with nostalgia. At Griffith and