Cherry Smash
Cherry Smash was a fountain syrup made from cherry syrup along with a blend of other fruit flavors which soda jerks mixed with carbonated water and phosphate.{{cite web|url=https://www.pharmacytimes.com/contributor/karen-berger/2019/02/soda-fountains--their-pharmacist-inventors|title=Soda Fountains & Their Pharmacist Inventors|website=www.pharmacytimes.com|access-date=2019-03-17|archive-date=2020-06-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200606234653/https://www.pharmacytimes.com/contributor/karen-berger/2019/02/soda-fountains--their-pharmacist-inventors|url-status=dead}} During the 1920s it was available at soda fountains and pharmacies along the East Coast of the United States, but the product is no longer produced in the present day.
History
Cherry Smash was founded in 1901 by Richmond, Virginia, native John E. Fowler.{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cAe0DgAAQBAJ&pg=PT125|title = Streetcar Advertising in America|last1 = Savage|first1 = Woodson J.|date = 2017-04-20}} In 1920, he began to produce it in a former brewery in Arlington, Virginia. He produced it for almost 30 years.{{cite web|url=https://lancasteronline.com/features/notes-from-the-antiques-market-cherry-smash/article_ce6706f0-9c1e-11e4-943a-735063141e77.html|title=Notes from the antiques market: Cherry Smash|first=MICHAEL LONG |last=Writer|website=LancasterOnline|date=15 January 2015 }}
It was sold from ball-shaped dispensers {{cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1993-11-19-9311190079-story.html|title=SODA-FOUNTAIN PIECES ARE DRAWING ATTENTION THESE DAYS|first=Ralph and Terry Kovel, (copyright) 1993 by Cowles Syndicate|last=Inc|website=chicagotribune.com|date=19 November 1993 }} and were common at American drug stores along with other sodas at the time.
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