soda jerk story update

[mg357]

Dear s&w, after doing a lot more research, i have decided that my soda jerk story character will Not be carrying a gun. But instead I will use the gun suggestions that my fellow forum members gave me as part of a modest gun collection that the character owns. sincerely mg357 a proud member of the s&w forum.

 

[Andy Griffith]

Oooo....

This made me want a triple decker (three banana) banana split, with extra cherries and pineapple!

Thanks.

 

[sipowicz]

Good idea. And here are the most famous soda jerks of all time...they didn't carry guns either..

In the introductory episode of The Abbott & Costello Show, we meet the two heroes, down-on-their-luck performers who owe too much rent to their landlord, Mr. Fields (Sidney Fields). To help pay it off, slick conman-type Bud Abbott maneuvers roly-poly comic Lou Costello into a job as a soda jerk and counterman at the drugstore owned by Mr. Fields' brother (also played, naturally, by Sidney Fields). Costello tries hard, but he's exasperated by a group of boys who each want five cents' worth of licorice, an alternately aloof and flirty neighbor (Hillary Brooke), an overgrown obnoxious kid (Joe Besser), and an ill-tempered customer (Joe Kirk) who thinks 10 cents is too much to pay for one scoop of ice-cream. This episode also includes one of the funniest moments in the two-season run of the show, Costello's attempt to tell the story of "Jonah and the Whale." Also worth the price of admission is a pair of appearances by Iris Adrian, doing a priceless vaudeville gag.


Abbott: Hey soda....jerk!
Costello: Put those words closer together!

 

[Raider]

Hillary Brooke was one classy lady. She was also the only one on the set who was exempt from A & C's practical jokes and pranks. Thanks, Sip. I hadn't thought of her in a long time.

Charlie

 

[sipowicz]

You are welcome Charlie....these guys were my favorites as a kid....

 

[GatorFarmer]

Dana Andrews character in "The Best Years of Our Lives" had been a soda jerk before the war. In ye olden days, if you were good at it, you could make a respectable living doing it.

While many think of it as an obsolete occupation, there are still some soda jerks around.

Hmm... I wonder if I could set up a soda fountain next door to a real barber shop...

 

[feralmerril]

Any of you been to "Peggy Sue`s"? It`s by the calico ghost town turnoff on I-15 in california north of Barstow. It`s a huge 50`s style dinner with a soda fountain etc. They have lifelike statues of elvis, the blue`s brothers, marlin monroe etc. The place just gets bigger and added on through the years. Quite a attraction and good food! All the 50`s era movie stars pictures all over the place, huge gift shop of that stuff too.

 

[BaldEagle1313]

You are welcome Charlie....these guys were my favorites as a kid....

Abbott and Costello are just a riot. I've heard "Who's on First?" a thousand times and I still crack up. Every time. Plus, you can listen to them with your kids around. Bill Cosby was like that too. But, like everything, what's considered funny changes. In the early 70's my older brother brought a Robin Williams album home and when mom overheard it I thought she was going to have a stroke.

 

[diamonback68]

Dear s&w, after doing a lot more research, i have decided that my soda jerk story character will Not be carrying a gun. But instead I will use the gun suggestions that my fellow forum members gave me as part of a modest gun collection that the character owns. sincerely mg357 a proud member of the s&w forum.

Good idea. You don't have to have guns in every story to make a good story. Most of the best movies ever made didn't have a single firearm in them.

 

[sipowicz]

And some of the best soda jerks also made a pretty decent sandwich. The key was to slice the cold cuts very thin. That is why great soda jerks also had a a real sharp set of knifes.

 

[Stophel]

You've been itchin' for the opportunity, haven't you?

 

[sipowicz]

Like a knive through hot butter....