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    From NANCY BACKUS@1:123/140 to ED VANCE on Thu Jul 5 21:50:00 2018
    Quoting Ed Vance to Nancy Backus on 07-04-18 19:16 <=-

    that made their Fountain Coca-Cola Soft Drink with Syrup that was in a
    large glass bottle with a plastic dispenser attached to it.
    The bottle was inverted with the dispenser on the bottom so the person
    making the softdrink just pressed a big button to put some syrup in a
    paper cup. They filled the cup with soda water (CO2 Fizz Water) and
    gave it to the customer. I can't remember if the dispenser button was
    pressed once or twice to make the soda.
    I thought that I already seen everything about how a Fountain soft drink
    was made until I walked in that Drug Store when I was 14 years old. DUH
    They were just more obvious about how it was done.... :)
    The Pharmacist was an older Man, it may be that He purchased the Soda Syrup Dispenser at His Drugs Store long before the Soda Fountain Dispensers with Chrome Levers were manufactured. ???

    Quite possible... :)

    BTW, the Dispenser attached to the Coca-Cola Bottle was made of
    Plastic and had a Big Red Button, it probably was made by Coca-Cola
    Corp.

    That also sounds quite possible... :)

    Coca-Cola has a Museum in Elizabethtown, Kentucky about 40 Miles from where I live.
    They probably are on the internet (everybody else is) and they
    probably have a photo of the Dispenser that I am talking about.

    I don't do much internet of that sort... but they might have a photo of
    various early dispensers and such... it is the sort of thing one would
    expect a museum to have... ;)

    ttyl neb

    ... The tip you now leave for lunch would have bought you one 20 years ago

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