80- EARLY COCA-COLAS at the OLD-FASHIONED SODA FOUNTAINS!...

When my grandmother, Willie, was a young girl, she told me about going to the old drugstore in her small town and to its soda fountain area. The soda 'jerk' would jerk back the large handle up on the fountain to mix the syrup with the phosphates. (fizz). The Coca-Cola syrup was squirted in the bottom of the Coke glass, and then the soda jerk would jerk the lever to add the fizz...mix with a long spoon and add more fizz. Then he would squirt, from another nozzle, the cherry syrup, mix up that original Cherry-Coke and add ice!
She also, as a child, liked Chocolate Cokes. They were popular, too. Soda fountains jerks could mix up Lime Cokes, Lemon Cokes, Vanilla Cokes and even 'Amonia Cokes', too.
And you thought Cherry Cokes were modern and came in a can or plastic bottle?
You've just experienced another 'social commentary'.