Following the installation of the fountain came hot weather, and on one day he sold one thousand glasses of various flavors; on other days, six or seven hundred glasses; and even during recent cooler weather there has been a profitable business....--From American druggist and pharmaceutical record--
Doctors called and denounced the use of soda water, fearing harmful effects from the dangerous ice-cold liquid, and then took it themselves, just as they do at home. The success of this fountain is another indication of the growth of the ice habit in England. Colmore Row is a great thoroughfare, but is not as likely a place for a soda water fountain as is crowded New Street. It seems that an American soda fountain syndicate has taken up the matter of the introduction of soda water fountains in England, and is determined to, and will, succeed.
So, if you went to your drug dealer to purchase ice for your habit, you were literally going to your drug dealer to purchase ice for your habit.
And don't even get me started on the powerful syndicate pushing ice on the dwellers of urban areas.
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Ice Ice Baby!
Com'on tell the truth.
You were groovin on Vanilla Ice. I know you were.
You were groovin on Vanilla Ice. I know you were.
Actually, I only starting buying 80's albums yesterday. I was loading everything I own into one computer, organized it all by year and noticed the 80's were a wasteland. Isn't that weird?
...organized it all by year and noticed the 80's were a wasteland
I chron my recorded music too (1927-present). I noticed a gap in the late 90's. It's all a matter of taste I suspect.
There were some pretty decent bands in the eighties. But most had one or two hits. Hey by rights U2 is an eighties band, no?
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