Soda Fountains
This Scalar was created to give the reader the history on the soda fountain. From it's bubbly beginnings to the roots of the American soda fountain that run much deeper, and much darker. How carbonated water was prized for its curative properties and how commercial fountains, which claimed to artificially reproduce the benefits of spring waters, didn’t become widespread until the first quarter of the 18th century and then they were marketed primarily for their medicinal, not pleasure giving properties, it was because of soda water’s perceived therapeutic benefits that pharmacies became the main stage upon which the development of the fountain played out.