Our go to soda fountain growing up was Nick’s Ever Ready Drugs on 42nd and Division. What great memories. And Nick Sckavone did more for youth baseball (and adult leagues) than pretty much anyone else in Portland back in the day. He was one of my heroes as a kid......
Played a ton of baseball games at Sckavone Stadium in babe ruth, high school, legion ball, college and semi pro games. I preffered there over the old Walker Stadium at Lents.
Oswego use to have a soda fountain complete with a soda jerk. You could get a phosphate soda of any flavor for just 3 cents. Never got anything else there because it was too expensive for a youngster of 9 to buy. Had to go to an ice cream store so I could get a 5 cent ice cream cone. All cokes, except those that came in a bottle, were a mixture of syrup and phosphate soda in those days. Even the bottle ones were a lot more delicious than they are today. There was no corn syrup sweetener in those days. It was all pure cane sugar mostly from Cuba.