Nothing says classic American dining like an old-fashioned soda fountain. One Mississippi institution from Civil War times is keeping the tradition alive.

The musky-pink marble and sturdy silver spigots of the vintage soda fountain inside Steilacoom’s The Bair Drug and Hardware ... a hardware store and the soda fountain. After falling into ...

Not only a purveyor of drugs and health-related items, the American drugstore was also a meeting spot, lunch place, and community social center. The first soda fountain patent was granted to ...

I think it’s going to be a huge thing for people to come back to,” said Sara Reid, who has run the restaurant inside the 1895 ...