WEEKEND ROUNDUP

  Welcome to The Weekend Roundup...hosted by Tom The Back Roads Traveler

1. A Word with "V"
2. A Favorite
3.  VORACIOUS - chosen by Tom

STARTS WITH V

VINTAGE

Hilton Museum, Cisco Texas

VALISE VUITTON

VORACIOUS appetite required

North Carolina

Weekend Roundup

 Welcome to The Weekend Roundup...hosted by Tom The Back Roads Traveler

1. Starts with "H"
2. A Favorite
3. HEAVENLY - chosen by Tom

STARTS WITH H

HIGH Five Tattoo HAMILTON

FAVOURITE

HOTTER HELL at PEI Brewing Company

HEAVENLY

Mount Airy NC

Tuesday Treasures

 Perhaps this building, at 254 Locke Street South in Hamilton ON, was Duncan Garson’s shop back when soda fountains in drug stores were common.

Hamilton ON

The soda fountain was 'born' in the 1850’s, when people would seek fountain drinks from their local drugstore to cure physical ailments. At the time, many fountain drinks were concoctions or extracts of flavored, effervesced drugs.

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Car and Collectibles Museum Russell's New Mexico

Cocaine and caffeine were among such popular drugs found in pharmacy drinks—this combination was used for headache treatment. As patients began to suffer rebound headaches, they would return again and again for more drinks to treat their pain.

Mount Airy North Carolina

Patients enjoyed visiting the soda fountain to get some 'pep—at the time, it was widely believed that stimulants were safe and effective. Many pharmacists (called druggists at the time and chemists to this day in the UK) even made and marketed their own secret formulas.


Pharmacies also began to offer milkshakes (the original recipe was carbonated water, sweetened flavored milk, and a raw egg) and ice cream sodas (flavored soda water with a scoop of vanilla ice cream) at their fountains.

Frankenmuth Michigan

Selling cocaine-derived drinks was completely legal, as every drug was over the counter. However, in 1914, the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act became law under President Woodrow Wilson, and it banned the use of cocaine and opiates in OTC products.

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Roanoke Virginia

Almost every drugstore had a soda fountain by the early 1920’s. Due to prohibition, which began in 1919, bars were closing and people needed a place to socialize. At the time, ice cream parlors were usually standalone businesses and not part of a soda fountain.

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Mackinac Island Michigan

Pharmacist Jacob Baur started the Liquid Carbonic Company in 1888, where he manufactured carbon dioxide in tanks, and then the real soda fountain was born. His Liquid Carbonic soda fountains were manufactured and marketed in the early 1900’s.1 A potential soda jerk (one who serves and sells from a soda fountain) could purchase a Liquid Carbonic soda fountain, an operations and recipe manual, and enter the soda fountain business. The soda fountain was seen as a valuable and profitable business.
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Charlotte North Carolina

Pepsi was invented by pharmacist Caleb Bradham, at his own drugstore, Bradham’s, in New Bern, North Carolina, in 1893. At the time, the drink was coined 'Brad’s Drink,' and it was renamed as Pepsi in 1898.4 Bradham believed that the drink was not only refreshing but would aid in indigestion, or dysPEPSIa, hence the name Pepsi.

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New Bern North Carolina

That's me, taking a photo!

Preservative-free soda syrup, with flavorings extracted from natural fruits, such as Orange Crush and Cherry Smash, became common in the local drugstores. The soda jerk would add carbonated water and phosphate to the syrup to make a unique beverage. Syrup companies began to provide the pharmacist with free syrup dispensers in exchange for advertising.

Winnipeg Manitoba

Soon, soda dispensers came along, replacing syrup dispensers, and changed the market. Pharmacists no longer had to mix their own concoctions. Instead of having to mix syrup with carbonated water and phosphate, the soda dispenser mixed the syrup and carbonated water, eliminating any additional steps to prepare a fountain drink. Soon, companies like Coca Cola and Pepsi began making soda dispensers, which they supplied to the pharmacies free of charge. The pharmacist simply had to hold the glass and turn the handle to dispense a drink.

Calgary Alberta

Although this advancement freed up the pharmacist, the pharmacist also lost some uniqueness because the drinks became the same at every drugstore. According to the virtual Soderlund Drugstore and Pharmacy Museum, “As wonderful as these soda dispensers were, they hastened the demise of the soda fountain. They contributed to the homogenization of drugstores.”

Toronto ON - sadly now gone

A bonus for the soda companies: most people were already loyal to the brand from drinking these sodas at the pharmacy. Once the sodas were available in bottles, the brands were already recognizable and in demand.

Sydney Australia (click link to learn more)

Today, soda fountains are seen as old-fashioned yet charming, but are few and far between. Many customers enjoy the egg creams, soda floats, sundaes, and milkshakes that these soda fountains have to offer.

Click here to visit the Coca Cola Museum in Las Vegas

Stacks or Blocks

 Cee's Fun Foto Challenge

Toronto ON - Stackt Market

Somewhere in Idaho

2014 Charlotte NC

Ice block delivery in Mazatlan Mexico

Toronto ON Distillery District

Orlando FL

Shiny

Cee's Fun Foto Challenge

Shiny

Wet items can appear to be shiny.

Venice Italy

Toronto On

North Carolina

Puzzle

One Word Sunday

Puzzle

Charlotte NC

Can someone decipher? Not sure what the correct order is.



Camouflaged speakers emit the sounds of bees buzzing, these stamped iron tiles are inlaid throughout the brick walkways.

Pull Up a Seat

Pull Up a Seat

Charlotte NC


Mosaic benches and stools are tucked away in shady side paths of The Green.

Greedy

One Word Sunday

2011 - Myrtle Beach NC

WINNER, WINNER CHICKEN DINNER!

This alligator is feasting on a raw whole chicken!

"A chicken dinner in Las Vegas used to cost less than $2.00 and the usual bet at that time was $2.00, so when you won you had enough for the chicken dinner. Hence "Winner, winner, chicken dinner!"

Monday Mural

I'm linking up at Monday Mural hosted by Oakland Daily Photo.


November 2017 - Mount Airy NC

Click here for more of Mount Airy and here for some painted musical instruments.

There is controversy over this updated mural as read in this article.

The bottle featured in the Mount Airy mural is the square-shaped "Hutchinson"and had been issued in 1899.

The sign, which occupies the south wall of the Mayberry Country Flowers & Gifts/Hair World building along an alleyway, includes the familiar Coca-Cola logo and the message that the soft drink relieves fatigue and costs only 5 cents. It is believed to have first been painted on the wall around 1916.

It was obscured for many years by a business known as the Canteen which once occupied the alley space where the sign is located. When the Canteen was torn down in the 1980s, the faded “ghost sign” was revealed, a term that refers to old images on exterior building walls which have become weathered.

The late local historian Susan Ashby lobbied for years to have the historic sign refurbished, until her death in 1998.

That desire finally reached fruition last year when the revitalization began as part of a new campaign by Coca-Cola officials to bring such images back to life. This included hiring a team of mural artists to restore old Coke signs, thousands of which were painted in various communities around the early 1900s.

These signs were the major advertising medium for Coke at the time, long before television or electronic billboards evolved.

Click on links below for more Coca-Cola

Charlotte NC

Sydney Australia

Las Vegas NV Coca-Cola Museum

Russel's NM

Foto Tunes

Tom the backroads traveller hosts this weekly meme. 

November 2017 - Mount Airy NC

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

The Rainbow Connection

Solid Rock
Mount Airy was "The Granite City" long before it became famous as Griffith's hometown and the inspiration for the fictional Mayberry.

Mount Airy is all things Andy Griffith Mayberry.

Windows of Opportunity

Just Bee