[gmku]

Believe it or not, I'm old enough to have experienced the soda counter thing. I lived in a little town that was still clinging to some of those things in the late 60s. When I was like 12 or so I used to hang out in this drug store where I could sit at a big long counter and order cherry Cokes for like 15 cents. They mixed it right there--put the cherry sryup in your glass then poured Coke from the fountain over it. Haven't had a cherry Coke nearly as good ever since.

Then I'd go over and raid the new comic books and walk out with an armful for the week.

Great store. I went back about a year ago just out of nostalgia and the place was still there, still a drug store, but it was all different. No soda counter, no comic books. Just an anonymous looking drug store. It was pretty depressing.