In the early 1900s you could not just go to a pop machine and get a soda, instead you would go to the soda shop. When you sat down the soda jerk would mix you up a soda for you to enjoy. Now do you know where the inventor of the iceless soda fountain was from...well, he was from Terre Haute. In 1888, the Liquid Carbonics Manufacturing Company was founded by Jacob Baur a pharmacist from Terre Haute. This was the first liquid carbon dioxide producer in the Midwest. Jacob's company started testing its iceless soda fountain in 1903. It was obviously a hit, John Somerset said “the soda fountain is the most valuable, most useful, most profitable, and altogether most beneficial business building feature assimilated by the drugstore." The soda fountain's golden age continued until the 1950's when it developed a reputation of being "habit forming" or "intoxicating."