Soda-fountain pharmacies skyrocketed during the 1930s during the Prohibition when shut bars down. The first U.S. patent for dispensing carbonated water through a soda fountain spigot dates to the ...

The first U.S. patent for dispensing carbonated water through a soda fountain spigot dates to the early 1800s. Acid phosphate drinks were developed decades later as pharmacists mixed tonics for ...

The study, published in August in the journal Drinking Water, found more than 40% of water samples from fast-food soda fountains had coliforms present, an indicator of contamination. The study ...

Griffith leaves the dispensing to soda jerks like Jarrett and Fornash (they're not really jerks — the term describes the motion used to pull the handle of the soda water dispenser).

Despite a decline in waterborne outbreaks, bacteria in water supplies remains a threat — one that can be deadly. Nearly 7,000 people die of waterborne illnesses in the U.S. every year, according ...

Most machines rely on CO2 tanks and syrup pumps to create bubbles, carbonating water that's mixed with syrup to create the perfect soda. Commercial fountain soda machines do this in two different ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Self-service fountain machines at pizza parlors and delis have the different sugary sodas labeled with big buttons, while there are often smaller black “water” and “soda ...

Customers dine at Griffith & Feil Drug in Kenova, W. Va. The pharmacy opened in 1892 with a soda fountain counter that was taken out in 1957 but reopened in 2004.