My wife and I were spending an afternoon in Chanute. a little town in southeast Kansas, when we walked past Cardinal Drug Store on the Historic Main Street. We lead the sign 'Old Fashioned Soda Fountain' and immediately went in to check it out!
There it was complete with the padded seats on the bar stools at the counter and the neat little wire backed chairs and small (4 person) round 'ice cream' tables. The wire 'ice cream' tables & chairs are reproductions but are so like the originals. We loved it, so we had a lunch of grilled cheese and vanilla ice cream just like we remember from our childhood ! There was even a 1908 brass cash register and a scales to weigh yourself for only a penny.
The old fashioned soda menu included Old Fashioned Sodas with whipped cream, cherry & nuts on top, cherry cokes, cherry or strawberry limeades, shakes, malts and RootBeer Floats.
They offered grilled cheese and peanut butter & jelly sandwiches just like in our 'younger' days.
They also offered a great menu if you wanted sometime not Old Fashioned !
There was a collection of old medicine and medicine containers we found quite interesting as well as an extensive gift section for both children and adults, candy,
and an unopened bottle of Coca Cola from the pre-1929 Chanute Coca Cola Bottling Plant.
We will be back for another Old Fashioned Treat and to do more shopping! Do stop by if you are in Chanute, it's well worth your time. read more