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Old Posted Jun 10, 2014, 8:30 PM
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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality View Post
Thanks for digging up the photographs of Jack Dempsey at the Hotel Barbara NoirCityDame. They're pretty amazing.
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Here's a good look at a soda fountain in 1916 Los Angeles.


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close-up. Washington-Wilson-Lincoln portraits


What are the cylinder shaped things on the tables...napkin dispensers? ....straw dispensers?
-not sure what Kremal means. Russian for caramel?
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As oldstuff mentioned, Kremal was a drink. Some Googling led me to a couple of newspaper ads from 1919, unfortunately behind a paywall so I can't get a readable picture, but the text is:

KREMAL
First for Thirst

The new cereal beverage of superior quality contains all the rich, nourishing, blood-building ingredients of selected grain without the alcohol.
KREMAL is similar to good beer in taste, color and flavor, invigorating and thirst quenching, not intoxicating.
KREMAL is thoroughly predigested and positively will not ferment in the stomach.
KREMAL is both food and drink.
KREMAL is healthful and nutritious, an everyday drink.

In Sterilized Brown Bottles
On Draught at...[list of places in Bisbee AZ],

Let Your Taste Decide
BUXTON & SMITH, DISTRIBUTORS
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