Eating at the Lunch Counter

After Christmas {and other times of the year, but most especially after Christmas} I like to go uptown in the hometown and do some shopping. And when lunch time arises, I like to go to the local drug store for lunch.

Look at these fine customers ordering at the lunch counter. I sure hope they don't mind me snapping their picture.

The fine customer in pink? She was educatin' them on how to make a chocolate soda when I snapped this picture.

The customer with the baby? She ate two sandwiches! TWO!

But I didn't judge.

Look at the lovely menu. And the great prices!

And the original soda fountain.

I so badly wanted to say, "Can you remove your sign from the front? It's ruining the photo shoot!"

But I didn't.

And here is the soda jerk.


Did you know that my mother in law was a soda jerk when she was a teenager? And that is where she met her husband?
True story.


Shall we sit at the counter?

Or next to the skin care aisle?

This fine customer looks friendly enough, I think I'll go with the counter.

I had a delicious lunch for under 3 bucks!

Did you know that when I was a teenager, I stopped by here quite often and got me a real cherry coke?

Also a true story.

And did you notice the girl holding the baby that ate two sandwiches? Did you know she has always had a big appetite, and when she was a young whippersnapper I often brought her uptown with me and bought her some candy?

I wonder if she remembers that.