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Speaker 1: The Michael Berry Show. Credit to Houston Public Media for

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Speaker 1: this story. From a downtown soda shop, Rosenberg woman preserves

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Speaker 1: part of the town's history. Renee Butler opened Another Time

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Speaker 1: Soda Fountain and Cafe in two thousand and three after

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Speaker 1: her then husband purchased a building to restore it. She

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Speaker 1: hired an interior designer to style the space with a

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Speaker 1: nineteen twenties and nineteen thirties motif ramon, I'm going to

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Speaker 1: tell you something. Knowing a lot of women of wealth

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Speaker 1: in this town, that's not us. I know women of

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Speaker 1: wealth when women use the term style as a verb,

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Speaker 1: run cousin, Oh, that's a beautiful outfit. Who styles you?

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Speaker 1: When you hear style as a verb, you about to

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Speaker 1: throw down some money. Renee Butler is our guest. Renee,

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Speaker 1: welcome to the program.

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Speaker 2: Hi.

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Speaker 1: Who called you and told you to call?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 3: My gosh, I've had. I can't get off the phone

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Speaker 3: fast enough with everybody calling me. My Bluebelt guy was

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Speaker 3: the first one that called, and then somebody I did

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Speaker 3: a catering sport called my brother called my cook called,

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Speaker 3: so yes, I've had.

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Speaker 1: What's the name of your What are the names of

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Speaker 1: all those people? What is your ice cream guy's name,

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Speaker 1: your blue Belt guy?

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Speaker 2: Ice cream guy's name is Jake, Not State Farm Jake,

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Speaker 2: but Jake Bluebell Jake.

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Speaker 3: Okay?

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Speaker 1: Is he a white man, black man, Hispanic Asian?

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Speaker 3: He is a white man.

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Speaker 1: How old would you guess he is?

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Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh, Jake, don't shoot me.

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Speaker 2: He's young.

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Speaker 3: He's like in his maybe late thirties.

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Speaker 1: Is he a handsome fellow?

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Speaker 2: Yes, he has bluebellt ice cream.

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Speaker 3: He's got to be How often?

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Speaker 1: How often does he deliver it to you?

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Speaker 3: He comes once a week.

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Speaker 1: Is it in an armored well talked about you a lot?

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Speaker 2: By the way?

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Speaker 1: Nice? You know we could be we could hook up

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Speaker 1: with Jay Ramon we get the ice cream hookup? Is

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Speaker 1: it a uh? Is it in a refrigerated secured like

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Speaker 1: a bank vault truck so nobody steals it?

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Speaker 2: It should be. It is definitely has lots of handles.

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Speaker 3: And secure stuff. Yes, how much I don't want anybody Bluebell?

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Speaker 1: How much ice cream do you think you order or

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Speaker 1: you have delivered in a week?

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Speaker 3: I go through anywhere from twelve to sixteen three gallons

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Speaker 3: hubs a.

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Speaker 1: Week, forty to fifty gallons.

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Speaker 3: Oh, that's a lot it's a lot.

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Speaker 1: No, that's awesome.

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Speaker 2: It sounds like a lot more when when you're just

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Speaker 2: ordering it by the numbers, it doesn't sound so much.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but you're scooping it one by one and people

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Speaker 1: have to choose to come in, and they have other

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Speaker 1: places to go, and your old fashion and throwback and

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Speaker 1: you don't measure by the numbers. I love that. How

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Speaker 1: many days a week are you at the shop?

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Speaker 3: We're open Wednesday, do Sunday And that's when I'm there. Wednesday,

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Speaker 3: do Sunday except right now. I took my mom to

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Speaker 3: visit friends, so where we're sitting at her place.

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Speaker 2: Right now, which is why.

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Speaker 3: I'm outside there there in downtown I'm sorry, in Rosenberg

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Speaker 3: at Cambridge Square, which is an assisted living home.

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Speaker 1: I love this.

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Speaker 2: They're chopping it up.

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Speaker 1: No, you know what, that's what they're supposed to do.

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Speaker 1: I love it. I love this line. The store offers

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Speaker 1: old fashioned drinks like malts and phosphates a depression are soda.

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Speaker 1: I knew what a phosphate was. The original recipe used

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Speaker 1: phosphoric phosphoric acid, but now it's made with citric acid,

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Speaker 1: which is less damaging to teeth. The restaurant has an

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Speaker 1: original soda fountain, meaning that when customers order a drink,

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Speaker 1: the kitchen staff mixes the syrup with carbonated water. Quote

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Speaker 1: it's made with the formula from the fifties, Renee Butler said,

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Speaker 1: so it's sweeter and less carbonation. The soda shop is

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Speaker 1: part of a cultural arts district aimed at preserving the

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Speaker 1: town's historic appearance. Like much of Fort ben County, Rosenberg

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Speaker 1: has seen rapid growth in the past twenty years. I

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Speaker 1: love this story so much.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 2: That makes my heart feel so good.

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Speaker 1: Ronnie, what were you doing before this soda shop? Because

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Speaker 1: my guess is you didn't have a full time job,

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Speaker 1: and you took this thing on as a passion project

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Speaker 1: and maybe you just decided I'm going to see it through.

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Speaker 1: But it was a lot harder work than you ever

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Speaker 2: Well, most of that is correct, except I was working

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Speaker 2: full time and had just officially retired as an accountant

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Speaker 2: for about five minutes and did so much volunteer work

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Speaker 2: that have decided I might want to go and do

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Speaker 2: something else.

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Speaker 3: So that's when my brother and I actually started it,

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Speaker 3: and it was It has been totally a labor of

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Speaker 3: love ever since, because it's been twenty one years and

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Speaker 3: I've met so many people and there they're I mean,

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Speaker 3: they're truly regulars and come in all the time, and

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Speaker 3: it's it helps that my place is still simple, old fashioned.

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Speaker 3: It's not the hustle and bustle, and so that it

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Speaker 3: makes a difference.

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Speaker 2: It's a good old That is exactly.

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Speaker 1: Why we're talking to you. There are fewer and fewer

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Speaker 1: of these sorts of things, and God bless you because

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Speaker 1: you don't have to admit it, but I'm betting you

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Speaker 1: haven't made a dime out of this thing, and you

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Speaker 1: wouldn't trade it for the world. It is called Another

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Speaker 1: Times soda Fountain and cafe. Are you there today?

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Speaker 3: I leave from your my mom home.

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Speaker 1: Yes, okay, will you be there later?

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Speaker 3: I will be there till five o'clock today.

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Speaker 1: What time will you get there?

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Speaker 3: I will Well, you know, my mother's eighty five and

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Speaker 3: so she's talking a lot. I could be here for

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Speaker 3: another hour before. No.

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Speaker 1: No, I think that's wonderful you doing that. My mother's

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Speaker 1: seventy nine and my father's eighty four, and I get it,

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Speaker 1: you know what, Every moment is precious and they need that.

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Speaker 1: That fellowship so so good for you. What what should

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Speaker 1: I order if I come into another time soda fountain

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Speaker 1: in cafe? Don't give me the fifteen things you I

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Speaker 1: want you to pick one from.

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Speaker 3: I will tell you want a burger, yes, and you

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Speaker 3: want a mold that's what you want?

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, correct, that is exactly what I want.

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Speaker 3: Ding ding ding ding ding our burgers, our meat. I

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Speaker 3: go to a local meat market every day and get

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Speaker 3: my meat. Which would the burger reflects it to Kavosovik's

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Speaker 3: meat market?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, of course. Yeah, No, I know those I

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Speaker 1: mean we're not personal friends, but I know who they are.

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Speaker 1: I think they'd emailed me before. You have a nice

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Speaker 1: It's at eight hundred and third Street in Rosenberg. Can

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Speaker 1: you hold with me for a minute, Renee? Sure? Can

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Speaker 1: you think you can get your mom on with us?

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Speaker 3: Actually she's in with someone that it wouldn't work real.

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Speaker 1: Well, Oh I got you, Okay, hold on, man, This

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Speaker 1: this takes me back to me. I'm gonna get choked up.

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Speaker 1: This takes me back to being eight years old and

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Speaker 1: my mom's little eight track player and then her getting

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Speaker 1: fired up listening to it and say let's go into

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Speaker 1: town to the burger chef Renee Butler is the owner

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Speaker 1: of another time soda fountain. You should, I will we

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Speaker 1: call and warn them that y'all are going to have

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Speaker 1: some people coming.

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 1: I love your hours Wednesday through Sunday eleven to five.

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Speaker 3: Correct.

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Speaker 1: I love that you're home at a reasonable hour, you

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Speaker 1: get cleaned up, you clean everything up. How far do

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Speaker 1: you live from there?

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Speaker 2: I could walk two miles.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's nice.

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Speaker 3: I've been here all my life and I'm right around

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Speaker 3: the corner. So it's I grew up going to the soda.

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Speaker 1: Fountain, this particular one, Yes, you're kidding, as it used.

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Speaker 2: To be before it was a soda fountain.

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Speaker 3: I mean it was.

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Speaker 2: Always a soda fountain, but before it there was a

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Speaker 2: doctor's office upstairs and a pharmacy with.

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Speaker 3: The soda fountains.

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Speaker 2: So we actually use that pharmacist as our as to

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Speaker 2: get our prescriptions. So we go sit at the counter, yep.

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Speaker 3: And then we would while we were waiting for the

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Speaker 3: prescription to be filmed, and we get our ice cream.

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Speaker 1: Oh, Renee, you have taken me back to my childhood.

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Speaker 1: Did it have that funny pharmacy smell that they had

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Speaker 1: back then the ie Dine or whatever it was.

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Speaker 2: Oh, yes, ye, yes it did. And I was fortunate

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Speaker 2: enough to get to meet the what it was used

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Speaker 2: to be called Frank's Pharmacy. And so I was able

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Speaker 2: to meet Frank Duttick. And he passed away right before

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Speaker 2: we opened the soda fountain, but he was able to

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Speaker 2: see everything, and it just brought such a joy to

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Speaker 2: him because he never got married.

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Speaker 3: He never you know, and so that was kind of

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Speaker 1: Another time Soda Fountain, you can find it at another

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Speaker 1: time Soda Fountain dot comramone. I'm going to give you

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Speaker 1: your order on what your half pound burger can come with.

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Speaker 1: We need to be quick. I need to know whether

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Speaker 1: you want or do not want each of these items. Okay, mayo?

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Speaker 1: Oh absolutely no, hold on right now, I'm asking round.

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Speaker 1: You want mild mustard, no mustard, tomato, lettuce, pickles, onions, okay,

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Speaker 1: served with fries. Would you like to add bacon, cheese,

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Speaker 1: jalopanos the extra You could get a chili cheese hot

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Speaker 1: dog with fries. You can get a Patty melt half

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Speaker 1: pound burger with grilled onions and American cheese on marble

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Speaker 1: rye bread served with fries. You can get an adult

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Speaker 1: grilled cheese. I love this woman so much. You can

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Speaker 1: get a grilled ham and cheese, or you can get

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Speaker 1: an adult grilled cheese, which means it's served with a

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Speaker 1: shot of whiskey. No, I'm just kidding. It says sweets

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Speaker 1: in American cheese, bacon and tomato served with fries, Fried chicken,

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Speaker 1: stripped sandwich, Texas cheese steak. Then you've got a club sandwich.

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Speaker 1: I like a club sandwich to you. I do too.

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Speaker 1: I had one this week. Turkey be lt tuna salad, sandwich,

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Speaker 1: chicken salad, sandwich, chef salad, howse salad, blue paints. What's

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Speaker 1: the blueplate? Special today?

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Speaker 2: Today is sausage and sharkraut with German potatoes.

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Speaker 1: My goodness. Do you know Sandy McGee over at Sandy McGee's.

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Speaker 3: I do.

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Speaker 1: I love her.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, she's a great lady.

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Speaker 1: I love her so much. She is so wonderful, she's

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Speaker 1: such a she's just a sweetheart. Ruben sandwich. Then you

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Speaker 1: got stuff for kids. We don't need to talk about

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Speaker 1: that right now. That you've got chili, cheese fries, you

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Speaker 1: got onion rings, French fries, sweet potato fries. Fruit. You

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Speaker 1: got our soda jerks create fountain drinks the old fashioned

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Speaker 1: way by adding carbonation to the soda syrup. So please

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Speaker 1: stir your soda Ramon. Do you remember who's the stir

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Speaker 1: You know who the You remember who the straw is

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Speaker 1: that stirs the drink. Reggie Jackson Fountain Soda Phosphates, fresh squeeze, lemonade,

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Speaker 1: fresh squeeze, lime made ice tea hot tea coffee, milk choppling.

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Speaker 1: If they don't have it, you don't need it. If

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Speaker 1: this place does not have it, you do not need it.

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Speaker 1: You got ice creams, You've got Sundays. You've got a

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Speaker 2: Renee Well, thank you so much. I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: because that's what my wife did with me at the RCC.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's been it's been a break even, so

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Speaker 2: it's all been okay. The actual to me, the most

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Speaker 2: it's her style. No, oh gosh, it is so cluttered now,

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Speaker 3: To the photo fountain.

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Speaker 2: They bring their grandkids and they you know, so it's

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Speaker 1: I can tell that how much fun you're having creating

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Speaker 2: Well. Thank you so much for requesting me to call,

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Speaker 2: because I was like first person when Jay called, I went,

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Speaker 2: you're joking me, right?

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Speaker 3: He is?

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Speaker 1: No, seriously, night, I got all sorts of emails from

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Speaker 1: Time Soda Fountain at eight hundred third Street in Rosenberg.

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Speaker 1: You can find it online, but real quick renee twenty seconds.

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Speaker 1: If I'm coming from downtown fifty nine Southwest Freeway, how

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Speaker 1: Please tell me the entirety of the Rosenberg Police Department

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Speaker 2: Actually, the Rosenberg Police Department eats there a lot, and

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Speaker 2: I am appreciative of that because that means they're always

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Speaker 1: Rene Butler, We love you another time. Soda Fountain in Rosenbergen.

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