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Soda jerk (or soda jerker) [1] is an American term used to refer to a person—typically a young man—who would operate the soda fountain in a restaurant, preparing and serving soda drinks and ice cream sodas. [2] The drinks were made by mixing flavored syrup, carbonated water, and occasionally malt powder over either ice or a few scoops of ...
An American Tragedy is a 1925 novel by American writer Theodore Dreiser.He began the manuscript in the summer of 1920, but a year later abandoned most of that text. It was based on the notorious murder of Grace Brown in 1906 and the trial of her lover, Chester Gillette.
During his university years, he worked as a short order cook, waiter, soda jerk, lifeguard at Jones Beach State Park, and a photographer's model. [citation needed] It was around this time that he changed his name to Walter Jack Palance, reasoning that most people couldn't pronounce his birth name. His last name was actually a derivative of his ...
The 1947 song "Boogie Woogie Blue Plate", by Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five, [13] uses soda-jerk lingo, among which is "86 on the cherry pie". The 1995 song " 86 " by Green Day is about them being rejected from their punk rock community when they started achieving commercial success.
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A "soda jerk" serving an ice cream soda. His left hand rests on the tap of a soda fountain (1936). An early soda fountain, from an 1872 engraving Hess Brothers Soda Fountain in Allentown PA, 1913. The soda fountain was an attempt to replicate mineral waters that bubbled up from the Earth. Many civilizations believed that drinking, and bathing ...
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Rodney Dangerfield was born Jacob Cohen [4] in the Village of Babylon, New York, on November 22, 1921. [5] He was the son of Jewish parents Dorothy "Dotty" Teitelbaum and the vaudevillian performer Phillip Cohen, whose stage name was Phil Roy.