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Would you want to be a soda jerk or a soda clerk? The term soda jerk was a pun on soda clerk, the formal job title of the young male drugstore assistants who operated soda fountains. It was inspired by the "jerking" action the server would implement to drive the fountain handle back and forth when adding soda. That was in the 1030s and 1940s. Here's the article on the "lost lingo of New York City's Soda Jerks HERE.
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