The local Mom and Pop store, which was really a bookie joint - but I digress, had an old-fashioned marble topped soda fountain.
They'd put Coke syrup, seltzer water and vanilla together and it was like nectar of the Gods. Add your 10-cent comic to the mix and it was kid heaven.
We had one of those, too, open until about ten years ago. It was most assurredly NOT a bookie joint! However, they did have a neat-o soda fountain.
Forget those kid-stuff cherry and vanilla syrups - you haven't lived until you've enjoyed a Chocolate Coke from the R & O Lunch Counter.
Tony