soda fountain

 

Road Trip:  Today, after decades of driving by, I stopped at the City Drug on the square in Jacksboro.  I was lured by the sign and wanted to sit at the fountain and have an ice cream soda.  I was lured in by the sign!  City Drug bills itself as "a drug store with all the modern amenities but with old-fashioned, friendly service and a great soda fountain."  The drug store installed the soda fountain about 1911.  Any charm in the building built in 1900 has long since been modernized away. The pharmacy is still open and touts being the 7th oldest  pharmacy in Texas -- owned by the Hammond family since 1960 with a fourth generation in charge.  My ice cream soda was delicious except that it lost something being served in a styrofoam cup with a plastic spoon rather than a fluted, footed glass with a silver spoon!

 

City Drug

Jacksboro, Texas