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A common scene for people of a certain generation, “light lunch counters” at diners were a popular destination.
My first memory of a soda fountain light lunch counter is from 1939. We lived a few blocks from downtown Marysville, Wash., and my folks and I would walk down to Hilton’s Drugs and Soda Fountain.
At one time in the States, there were over 26,000 soda fountains and light lunch counters, and early soda fountains…
