These are far removed from the days of soda jerks in striped vests who prepared egg creams and banana splits. Modern soda shops are more like trendy fast-food joints. You can walk in or go to a ...

Now, they own a Pink mobile business together called Soda Jerk. I lived in Montana for eight years and like dirty sodas are huge in the north so it was just to me like it came naturally.

The riverboat captain is a storyteller, and Captain Don Sanders will be sharing the stories of his long association with the ...

Three World War II veterans, two of them traumatized or disabled, return home to the American Midwest to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.

The first was to find a low-key and flexible job to pay the bills, which became working as a soda jerk at the Bodega Lunch Club. He worked there for forty-two years and thanks to his boss ...

too -- but mainly for the soda jerks. The staff working the soda fountains were originally called soda jerks because of the jerking motion they made pulling the soda fountain handle back and forth.

In the early years, Charlie worked as a soda jerk at a downtown Nashua soda shop, before joining the Air Force, where he was stationed in Turkey and Japan. He returned to Nashua to land a sought-after ...

Adam Swayne strolled across new brick pavers and sang along to "Earth Angel" played from nearby speakers as cars, including a 1957 Chevrolet, lined up downtown. The Tri-Five was one of 10 vehicles — ...

In their youth, Jean and Charlene moved to Shreveport, where they worked as soda jerks at Glenwood Drug. It was there that Jean met her future husband, Bill Darrow, who was their boss. A talent ...

Thrills and chills abound across L.A.’s sweet scene this October as local bakeries, ice cream parlors, and coffee houses prepare for Halloween with a frighteningly good selection of treats.

From his early days typesetting at the Miami Herald, working as a soda jerk, and even boxing fruit, his determination and hard work eventually led him to a career in real estate, where he found ...