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Article: Ice Cream Saturday.(Fair Oaks Pharmacy and Soda Fountain )
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- Gifts & Decorative Accessories
- Article date:
- August 1, 2001
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A California soda fountain and gift shop turns its 85th anniversary into an all-star event to remember.
In 1989, Michael and Meredith Miller bought the historic Fair Oaks Pharmacy and Soda Fountain in South Pasadena, California. After carefully restoring the interior and adding turn-of-the-century fixtures, the couple reopened the store, complete with a gift department containing retro memorabilia, collectibles, and toys reminiscent of its heyday. A decade later, their successful business, a 1992 Gold winner of Gifts & Dec's Merchandising Achievement Award for Store Design, was about to turn 85. The Millers decided that it was time to celebrate the history and ...