Gosh Mick. By 1964 or so most of the "drug stores" in my current locale had already ripped the soda fountains out, due to the competition from the "drive-ins" like Sonic et. al. You had to have a car (or borrow mom's and suffer the embarrassment) to get a soda or a shake for your sweetie. (Or some of them may have ripped them out because of the sit-ins too, I suppose(?).)

And passing through Boston in 1957 I learned that at "soda fountains" there, a milk shake was "milk, syrup, shook." If you wanted something with ice cream in it, you had to ask for a "frappe." (Even then, the ice cream was minimal. - they had no right to refer to themselves as "civilized.")

John