[Coleus]

It's sad to see these old and iconic shops close. I haven't had an egg cream in years.

[ETL]

[ifinnegan]

It is sad. Melancholy.

And, I’ve never really ever experienced these east coast places, but am still sad.

I never had an egg cream.

What’s it like?

I tried to make one once using a kosher chocolate syrup and seltzer water from a bottle.

[ETL]

[coaster123]

Normally, I don’t post these.. but I like it, maybe you do too, or will.

https://youtu.be/hIIG4gSXL0Y

[ETL]

This is the actual place...

The other I posted was just one I found on a search.

[BBQToadRibs]

When I was a college kid there was a pharmacy close to campus that had a small lunch counter in back. Simple lunch food, egg salad sandwiches, tuna melts, chili dogs, soup of the day, chipped beef and gravy over toast. Nothing fancy, but good and cheap. Building was torn down circa 1990 and a cookie cutter apartment complex went up.

Sad to see a piece of Americana history go away. You don’t see lunch counters like that anymore.

[Kickass Conservative]

My Father was a Soda Jerk (testing how old FReepers are) when he was a Kid in New Jersey.

He made the best Egg Creams and Ice Cream Sodas I’ve ever had.

As I write this I am looking at our Seafoam Green Hamilton Beach Malt (Model 25) Machine 1930’s Vintage that he bought from his old Boss. Still works like a charm.

[PUGACHEV]

I know I’ve had an egg cream long ago, but IIRC there was a trick that, basically, an egg cream had neither eggs nor cream.

[ETL]

Random pics...

[Bonemaker]

We used to love cherry, chocolate, lemon etc phosphates in the 50’s. Now they are going with tofu, alfalfa sprouts and other rabbit food. F ‘em.

[Drew68]

“Doughnuts and milkshakes are not the steady diet of modern Hobokenites,”

Yet I'll bet Hobokenites were a lot skinnier 80 years ago.

[Larry Lucido]

I haven't had an egg cream in years.

Well, no wonder they're tanking! Maybe if you'd ordered a large one last week, that would have saved them!

(What the heck is an egg cream?)

[Larry Lucido]

Dibs on the Frogger machine.

[Harpotoo]

UBet Chocolate Syrup, add milk, spritz with seltzer and enjoy:-)

[ETL]

[butlerweave]

Rick Sebak did a ton specials for PBS , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Sebak

[Waverunner]

Alfalfa... I didn't know he could cook..

[EnquiringMind]

No farewell in THIS house!! I make them all the time. So simple: 2 big squirts of Hershey’s syrup (I use lite), enough milk to make a strong chocolate milk (I use skim milk), then fill the glass with seltzer and stir. Heaven on Earth!

[minnesota_bound]

In Minneapolis, Minnesota area I remember going to Woolworth’s and Reed’s drugstore where they have a luncheon counter. Byerly’s grocery store had one. It has been remodeled into a restaurant attached to the store and the area where it was is now is a bakery and deli. I would get soft serve ice cream in a cone.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Another loss of the old culture.