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Old-time Pharmacy Frame Color:Silver The "new car" was theEarly drug stores offered much more than just bottles of pills, as seen here at the Collins Pharmacy in Islip, N. Y., circa 1915. You could count on a soda fountain, a barrel of root beer, glass display cases and tables and chairs. The local pharmacists made all medications on the spot for ailing customers, who probably needed a tall glass of soda to wash down the strong medicine. Soda fountains began to decline after Prohibition was repealed in the