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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Michael Berry Show. Credit to Houston Public Media for
this story. From a downtown soda shop, Rosenberg woman preserves
part of the town's history. Renee Butler opened Another Time
Soda Fountain and Cafe in two thousand and three after
her then husband purchased a building to restore it. She
hired an interior designer to style the space with a
(00:23):
nineteen twenties and nineteen thirties motif ramon, I'm going to
tell you something. Knowing a lot of women of wealth
in this town, that's not us. I know women of
wealth when women use the term style as a verb,
run cousin, Oh, that's a beautiful outfit. Who styles you?
(00:45):
When you hear style as a verb, you about to
throw down some money. Renee Butler is our guest. Renee,
welcome to the program.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Hi.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Who called you and told you to call?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
My gosh, I've had. I can't get off the phone
fast enough with everybody calling me. My Bluebelt guy was
the first one that called, and then somebody I did
a catering sport called my brother called my cook called,
so yes, I've had.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
What's the name of your What are the names of
all those people? What is your ice cream guy's name,
your blue Belt guy?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Ice cream guy's name is Jake, Not State Farm Jake,
but Jake Bluebell Jake.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Is he a white man, black man, Hispanic Asian?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
He is a white man.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
How old would you guess he is?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Oh, my gosh, Jake, don't shoot me.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
He's young.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
He's like in his maybe late thirties.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Is he a handsome fellow?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Yes, he has bluebellt ice cream.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
He's got to be How often?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
How often does he deliver it to you?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
He comes once a week.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Is it in an armored well talked about you a lot?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
By the way?
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Nice? You know we could be we could hook up
with Jay Ramon we get the ice cream hookup? Is
it a uh? Is it in a refrigerated secured like
a bank vault truck so nobody steals it?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
It should be. It is definitely has lots of handles.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
And secure stuff. Yes, how much I don't want anybody Bluebell?
Speaker 1 (02:32):
How much ice cream do you think you order or
you have delivered in a week?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I go through anywhere from twelve to sixteen three gallons
hubs a.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Week, forty to fifty gallons.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Oh, that's a lot it's a lot.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
No, that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
It sounds like a lot more when when you're just
ordering it by the numbers, it doesn't sound so much.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yeah, but you're scooping it one by one and people
have to choose to come in, and they have other
places to go, and your old fashion and throwback and
you don't measure by the numbers. I love that. How
many days a week are you at the shop?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
We're open Wednesday, do Sunday And that's when I'm there. Wednesday,
do Sunday except right now. I took my mom to
visit friends, so where we're sitting at her place.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Right now, which is why.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
I'm outside there there in downtown I'm sorry, in Rosenberg
at Cambridge Square, which is an assisted living home.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I love this.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
They're chopping it up.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
No, you know what, that's what they're supposed to do.
I love it. I love this line. The store offers
old fashioned drinks like malts and phosphates a depression are soda.
I knew what a phosphate was. The original recipe used
phosphoric phosphoric acid, but now it's made with citric acid,
which is less damaging to teeth. The restaurant has an
original soda fountain, meaning that when customers order a drink,
(04:00):
the kitchen staff mixes the syrup with carbonated water. Quote
it's made with the formula from the fifties, Renee Butler said,
so it's sweeter and less carbonation. The soda shop is
part of a cultural arts district aimed at preserving the
town's historic appearance. Like much of Fort ben County, Rosenberg
(04:21):
has seen rapid growth in the past twenty years. I
love this story so much.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
That makes my heart feel so good.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Ronnie, what were you doing before this soda shop? Because
my guess is you didn't have a full time job,
and you took this thing on as a passion project
and maybe you just decided I'm going to see it through.
But it was a lot harder work than you ever
could have imagined.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Well, most of that is correct, except I was working
full time and had just officially retired as an accountant
for about five minutes and did so much volunteer work
that have decided I might want to go and do
something else.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
So that's when my brother and I actually started it,
and it was It has been totally a labor of
love ever since, because it's been twenty one years and
I've met so many people and there they're I mean,
they're truly regulars and come in all the time, and
(05:27):
it's it helps that my place is still simple, old fashioned.
It's not the hustle and bustle, and so that it
makes a difference.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
It's a good old That is exactly.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Why we're talking to you. There are fewer and fewer
of these sorts of things, and God bless you because
you don't have to admit it, but I'm betting you
haven't made a dime out of this thing, and you
wouldn't trade it for the world. It is called Another
Times soda Fountain and cafe. Are you there today?
Speaker 3 (06:04):
I leave from your my mom home.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Yes, okay, will you be there later?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I will be there till five o'clock today.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
What time will you get there?
Speaker 3 (06:15):
I will Well, you know, my mother's eighty five and
so she's talking a lot. I could be here for
another hour before. No.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
No, I think that's wonderful you doing that. My mother's
seventy nine and my father's eighty four, and I get it,
you know what, Every moment is precious and they need that.
That fellowship so so good for you. What what should
I order if I come into another time soda fountain
in cafe? Don't give me the fifteen things you I
(06:46):
want you to pick one from.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
I will tell you want a burger, yes, and you
want a mold that's what you want?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Yes, yes, yes, correct, that is exactly what I want.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Ding ding ding ding ding our burgers, our meat. I
go to a local meat market every day and get
my meat. Which would the burger reflects it to Kavosovik's
meat market?
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Oh yeah, of course. Yeah, No, I know those I
mean we're not personal friends, but I know who they are.
I think they'd emailed me before. You have a nice
It's at eight hundred and third Street in Rosenberg. Can
you hold with me for a minute, Renee? Sure? Can
you think you can get your mom on with us?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Actually she's in with someone that it wouldn't work real.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Well, Oh I got you, Okay, hold on, man, This
this takes me back to me. I'm gonna get choked up.
This takes me back to being eight years old and
my mom's little eight track player and then her getting
fired up listening to it and say let's go into
town to the burger chef Renee Butler is the owner
(07:56):
of another time soda fountain. You should, I will we
call and warn them that y'all are going to have
some people coming.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I love your hours Wednesday through Sunday eleven to five.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I love that you're home at a reasonable hour, you
get cleaned up, you clean everything up. How far do
you live from there?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
I could walk two miles.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Oh that's nice.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
I've been here all my life and I'm right around
the corner. So it's I grew up going to the soda.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Fountain, this particular one, Yes, you're kidding, as it used.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
To be before it was a soda fountain.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I mean it was.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Always a soda fountain, but before it there was a
doctor's office upstairs and a pharmacy with.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
The soda fountains.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
So we actually use that pharmacist as our as to
get our prescriptions. So we go sit at the counter, yep.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
And then we would while we were waiting for the
prescription to be filmed, and we get our ice cream.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Oh, Renee, you have taken me back to my childhood.
Did it have that funny pharmacy smell that they had
back then the ie Dine or whatever it was.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Oh, yes, ye, yes it did. And I was fortunate
enough to get to meet the what it was used
to be called Frank's Pharmacy. And so I was able
to meet Frank Duttick. And he passed away right before
(09:32):
we opened the soda fountain, but he was able to
see everything, and it just brought such a joy to
him because he never got married.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
He never you know, and so that was kind of
like his livelihood.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Another time Soda Fountain, you can find it at another
time Soda Fountain dot comramone. I'm going to give you
your order on what your half pound burger can come with.
We need to be quick. I need to know whether
you want or do not want each of these items. Okay, mayo?
Oh absolutely no, hold on right now, I'm asking round.
You want mild mustard, no mustard, tomato, lettuce, pickles, onions, okay,
(10:14):
served with fries. Would you like to add bacon, cheese,
jalopanos the extra You could get a chili cheese hot
dog with fries. You can get a Patty melt half
pound burger with grilled onions and American cheese on marble
rye bread served with fries. You can get an adult
(10:35):
grilled cheese. I love this woman so much. You can
get a grilled ham and cheese, or you can get
an adult grilled cheese, which means it's served with a
shot of whiskey. No, I'm just kidding. It says sweets
in American cheese, bacon and tomato served with fries, Fried chicken,
stripped sandwich, Texas cheese steak. Then you've got a club sandwich.
I like a club sandwich to you. I do too.
(10:58):
I had one this week. Turkey be lt tuna salad, sandwich,
chicken salad, sandwich, chef salad, howse salad, blue paints. What's
the blueplate? Special today?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Today is sausage and sharkraut with German potatoes.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
My goodness. Do you know Sandy McGee over at Sandy McGee's.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
I do.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
I love her.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Yeah, she's a great lady.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
I love her so much. She is so wonderful, she's
such a she's just a sweetheart. Ruben sandwich. Then you
got stuff for kids. We don't need to talk about
that right now. That you've got chili, cheese fries, you
got onion rings, French fries, sweet potato fries. Fruit. You
got our soda jerks create fountain drinks the old fashioned
way by adding carbonation to the soda syrup. So please
(11:45):
stir your soda Ramon. Do you remember who's the stir
You know who the You remember who the straw is
that stirs the drink. Reggie Jackson Fountain Soda Phosphates, fresh squeeze, lemonade,
fresh squeeze, lime made ice tea hot tea coffee, milk choppling.
If they don't have it, you don't need it. If
this place does not have it, you do not need it.
(12:07):
You got ice creams, You've got Sundays. You've got a
banana split, old fashioned shakes, specialty shakes, one of specially shakes,
Chocolate banana, strawberry banana, cookies and cream, Johnny Shake, Pina Colada.
You can even add powdered malt, ice cream, soda, Coke shakes,
Coke floats, lime Cooler, Vernon Special, which is a lime
(12:29):
shrbert with hot fudge brownie Sunday. There's nothing on that
menu I wouldn't crush. That's just fantastic. I love everything
about this.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Renee Well, thank you so much. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Did your husband give you a budget when you started
and said, look, you can lose you can. You can
spend a half million renovated, renovating and you can lose
a half million bucks. But that's it, and that's all
because that's what my wife did with me at the RCC.
Bigger numbers, but the same concept. I'm serious. She said,
you can do it and you can lose money, but
here's the limit, mine, jot.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Here's a limit, no it.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
You know, it's been it's been a break even, so
it's all been okay. The actual to me, the most
important part when you were talking about the decorating and stuff,
actually I hired the interior decorator. She got antique stuff.
And then she doesn't ever want to even admit that
she was the interior decorator because since then people bring
(13:27):
me all kinds of stuff that they had in their
house that they want to share with the public, and
it's her style. No, oh gosh, it is so cluttered now,
but it's a good clutter. I mean, you know, I've
got a uniform from an army guy. I've got just
and his kids still come. His kids are in their
(13:50):
sixties and they still come.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
To the photo fountain.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
They bring their grandkids and they you know, so it's
it's that kind of stuff. They get to still see
what they have sent me, but other people get to
see the history.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
I can tell that how much fun you're having creating
this special place and seeing how families are reacting, and
seeing how elderly folks are so happy to be there
and share this with the younger generations and the younger
generations saying this is the places my grandparents went to.
That that makes up for you know, when your meat
(14:30):
delivery doesn't show up or Jake doesn't bring his ice cream.
I can tell that that's what sustains you. And I
love it. I love everything about this story. I'm so
glad you called. I love everything about.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Well. Thank you so much for requesting me to call,
because I was like first person when Jay called, I went,
you're joking me, right?
Speaker 3 (14:51):
He is?
Speaker 1 (14:52):
No, seriously, night, I got all sorts of emails from
people that said they had texted you, called you emailed,
and I guess they couldn't get through to you to
make sure that you call. Well. It is called Another
Time Soda Fountain at eight hundred third Street in Rosenberg.
You can find it online, but real quick renee twenty seconds.
(15:13):
If I'm coming from downtown fifty nine Southwest Freeway, how
do I get to you?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
You take the Rosenberg exit thirty six and you go
to Avenue I. You take a right, and you take
a first left. In that second street, you go across
and you get in, take a right and you're there.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Please tell me the entirety of the Rosenberg Police Department
eats there every day.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Actually, the Rosenberg Police Department eats there a lot, and
I am appreciative of that because that means they're always
taking care of me.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Rene Butler, We love you another time. Soda Fountain in Rosenbergen.
Find it online, Go support them, have a great time.
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The Michael Berry Show. Credit to Houston Public Media for
this story. From a downtown soda shop, Rosenberg woman preserves
part of the town's history. Renee Butler opened Another Time
Soda Fountain and Cafe in two thousand and three after
her then husband purchased a building to restore it. She
hired an interior designer to style the space with a
(00:23):
nineteen twenties and nineteen thirties motif ramon, I'm going to
tell you something. Knowing a lot of women of wealth
in this town, that's not us. I know women of
wealth when women use the term style as a verb,
run cousin, Oh, that's a beautiful outfit. Who styles you?
(00:45):
When you hear style as a verb, you about to
throw down some money. Renee Butler is our guest. Renee,
welcome to the program.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Hi.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Who called you and told you to call?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
My gosh, I've had. I can't get off the phone
fast enough with everybody calling me. My Bluebelt guy was
the first one that called, and then somebody I did
a catering sport called my brother called my cook called,
so yes, I've had.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
What's the name of your What are the names of
all those people? What is your ice cream guy's name,
your blue Belt guy?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Ice cream guy's name is Jake, Not State Farm Jake,
but Jake Bluebell Jake.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Is he a white man, black man, Hispanic Asian?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
He is a white man.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
How old would you guess he is?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Oh, my gosh, Jake, don't shoot me.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
He's young.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
He's like in his maybe late thirties.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Is he a handsome fellow?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Yes, he has bluebellt ice cream.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
He's got to be How often?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
How often does he deliver it to you?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
He comes once a week.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Is it in an armored well talked about you a lot?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
By the way?
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Nice? You know we could be we could hook up
with Jay Ramon we get the ice cream hookup? Is
it a uh? Is it in a refrigerated secured like
a bank vault truck so nobody steals it?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
It should be. It is definitely has lots of handles.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
And secure stuff. Yes, how much I don't want anybody Bluebell?
Speaker 1 (02:32):
How much ice cream do you think you order or
you have delivered in a week?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I go through anywhere from twelve to sixteen three gallons
hubs a.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Week, forty to fifty gallons.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Oh, that's a lot it's a lot.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
No, that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
It sounds like a lot more when when you're just
ordering it by the numbers, it doesn't sound so much.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yeah, but you're scooping it one by one and people
have to choose to come in, and they have other
places to go, and your old fashion and throwback and
you don't measure by the numbers. I love that. How
many days a week are you at the shop?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
We're open Wednesday, do Sunday And that's when I'm there. Wednesday,
do Sunday except right now. I took my mom to
visit friends, so where we're sitting at her place.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Right now, which is why.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
I'm outside there there in downtown I'm sorry, in Rosenberg
at Cambridge Square, which is an assisted living home.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I love this.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
They're chopping it up.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
No, you know what, that's what they're supposed to do.
I love it. I love this line. The store offers
old fashioned drinks like malts and phosphates a depression are soda.
I knew what a phosphate was. The original recipe used
phosphoric phosphoric acid, but now it's made with citric acid,
which is less damaging to teeth. The restaurant has an
original soda fountain, meaning that when customers order a drink,
(04:00):
the kitchen staff mixes the syrup with carbonated water. Quote
it's made with the formula from the fifties, Renee Butler said,
so it's sweeter and less carbonation. The soda shop is
part of a cultural arts district aimed at preserving the
town's historic appearance. Like much of Fort ben County, Rosenberg
(04:21):
has seen rapid growth in the past twenty years. I
love this story so much.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
That makes my heart feel so good.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Ronnie, what were you doing before this soda shop? Because
my guess is you didn't have a full time job,
and you took this thing on as a passion project
and maybe you just decided I'm going to see it through.
But it was a lot harder work than you ever
could have imagined.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Well, most of that is correct, except I was working
full time and had just officially retired as an accountant
for about five minutes and did so much volunteer work
that have decided I might want to go and do
something else.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
So that's when my brother and I actually started it,
and it was It has been totally a labor of
love ever since, because it's been twenty one years and
I've met so many people and there they're I mean,
they're truly regulars and come in all the time, and
(05:27):
it's it helps that my place is still simple, old fashioned.
It's not the hustle and bustle, and so that it
makes a difference.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
It's a good old That is exactly.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Why we're talking to you. There are fewer and fewer
of these sorts of things, and God bless you because
you don't have to admit it, but I'm betting you
haven't made a dime out of this thing, and you
wouldn't trade it for the world. It is called Another
Times soda Fountain and cafe. Are you there today?
Speaker 3 (06:04):
I leave from your my mom home.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Yes, okay, will you be there later?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I will be there till five o'clock today.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
What time will you get there?
Speaker 3 (06:15):
I will Well, you know, my mother's eighty five and
so she's talking a lot. I could be here for
another hour before. No.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
No, I think that's wonderful you doing that. My mother's
seventy nine and my father's eighty four, and I get it,
you know what, Every moment is precious and they need that.
That fellowship so so good for you. What what should
I order if I come into another time soda fountain
in cafe? Don't give me the fifteen things you I
(06:46):
want you to pick one from.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
I will tell you want a burger, yes, and you
want a mold that's what you want?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Yes, yes, yes, correct, that is exactly what I want.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Ding ding ding ding ding our burgers, our meat. I
go to a local meat market every day and get
my meat. Which would the burger reflects it to Kavosovik's
meat market?
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Oh yeah, of course. Yeah, No, I know those I
mean we're not personal friends, but I know who they are.
I think they'd emailed me before. You have a nice
It's at eight hundred and third Street in Rosenberg. Can
you hold with me for a minute, Renee? Sure? Can
you think you can get your mom on with us?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Actually she's in with someone that it wouldn't work real.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Well, Oh I got you, Okay, hold on, man, This
this takes me back to me. I'm gonna get choked up.
This takes me back to being eight years old and
my mom's little eight track player and then her getting
fired up listening to it and say let's go into
town to the burger chef Renee Butler is the owner
(07:56):
of another time soda fountain. You should, I will we
call and warn them that y'all are going to have
some people coming.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I love your hours Wednesday through Sunday eleven to five.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I love that you're home at a reasonable hour, you
get cleaned up, you clean everything up. How far do
you live from there?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
I could walk two miles.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Oh that's nice.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
I've been here all my life and I'm right around
the corner. So it's I grew up going to the soda.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Fountain, this particular one, Yes, you're kidding, as it used.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
To be before it was a soda fountain.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I mean it was.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Always a soda fountain, but before it there was a
doctor's office upstairs and a pharmacy with.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
The soda fountains.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
So we actually use that pharmacist as our as to
get our prescriptions. So we go sit at the counter, yep.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
And then we would while we were waiting for the
prescription to be filmed, and we get our ice cream.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Oh, Renee, you have taken me back to my childhood.
Did it have that funny pharmacy smell that they had
back then the ie Dine or whatever it was.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Oh, yes, ye, yes it did. And I was fortunate
enough to get to meet the what it was used
to be called Frank's Pharmacy. And so I was able
to meet Frank Duttick. And he passed away right before
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we opened the soda fountain, but he was able to
see everything, and it just brought such a joy to
him because he never got married.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
He never you know, and so that was kind of
like his livelihood.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Another time Soda Fountain, you can find it at another
time Soda Fountain dot comramone. I'm going to give you
your order on what your half pound burger can come with.
We need to be quick. I need to know whether
you want or do not want each of these items. Okay, mayo?
Oh absolutely no, hold on right now, I'm asking round.
You want mild mustard, no mustard, tomato, lettuce, pickles, onions, okay,
(10:14):
served with fries. Would you like to add bacon, cheese,
jalopanos the extra You could get a chili cheese hot
dog with fries. You can get a Patty melt half
pound burger with grilled onions and American cheese on marble
rye bread served with fries. You can get an adult
(10:35):
grilled cheese. I love this woman so much. You can
get a grilled ham and cheese, or you can get
an adult grilled cheese, which means it's served with a
shot of whiskey. No, I'm just kidding. It says sweets
in American cheese, bacon and tomato served with fries, Fried chicken,
stripped sandwich, Texas cheese steak. Then you've got a club sandwich.
I like a club sandwich to you. I do too.
(10:58):
I had one this week. Turkey be lt tuna salad, sandwich,
chicken salad, sandwich, chef salad, howse salad, blue paints. What's
the blueplate? Special today?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Today is sausage and sharkraut with German potatoes.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
My goodness. Do you know Sandy McGee over at Sandy McGee's.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
I do.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
I love her.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Yeah, she's a great lady.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
I love her so much. She is so wonderful, she's
such a she's just a sweetheart. Ruben sandwich. Then you
got stuff for kids. We don't need to talk about
that right now. That you've got chili, cheese fries, you
got onion rings, French fries, sweet potato fries. Fruit. You
got our soda jerks create fountain drinks the old fashioned
way by adding carbonation to the soda syrup. So please
(11:45):
stir your soda Ramon. Do you remember who's the stir
You know who the You remember who the straw is
that stirs the drink. Reggie Jackson Fountain Soda Phosphates, fresh squeeze, lemonade,
fresh squeeze, lime made ice tea hot tea coffee, milk choppling.
If they don't have it, you don't need it. If
this place does not have it, you do not need it.
(12:07):
You got ice creams, You've got Sundays. You've got a
banana split, old fashioned shakes, specialty shakes, one of specially shakes,
Chocolate banana, strawberry banana, cookies and cream, Johnny Shake, Pina Colada.
You can even add powdered malt, ice cream, soda, Coke shakes,
Coke floats, lime Cooler, Vernon Special, which is a lime
(12:29):
shrbert with hot fudge brownie Sunday. There's nothing on that
menu I wouldn't crush. That's just fantastic. I love everything
about this.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Renee Well, thank you so much. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Did your husband give you a budget when you started
and said, look, you can lose you can. You can
spend a half million renovated, renovating and you can lose
a half million bucks. But that's it, and that's all
because that's what my wife did with me at the RCC.
Bigger numbers, but the same concept. I'm serious. She said,
you can do it and you can lose money, but
here's the limit, mine, jot.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Here's a limit, no it.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
You know, it's been it's been a break even, so
it's all been okay. The actual to me, the most
important part when you were talking about the decorating and stuff,
actually I hired the interior decorator. She got antique stuff.
And then she doesn't ever want to even admit that
she was the interior decorator because since then people bring
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me all kinds of stuff that they had in their
house that they want to share with the public, and
it's her style. No, oh gosh, it is so cluttered now,
but it's a good clutter. I mean, you know, I've
got a uniform from an army guy. I've got just
and his kids still come. His kids are in their
(13:50):
sixties and they still come.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
To the photo fountain.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
They bring their grandkids and they you know, so it's
it's that kind of stuff. They get to still see
what they have sent me, but other people get to
see the history.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
I can tell that how much fun you're having creating
this special place and seeing how families are reacting, and
seeing how elderly folks are so happy to be there
and share this with the younger generations and the younger
generations saying this is the places my grandparents went to.
That that makes up for you know, when your meat
(14:30):
delivery doesn't show up or Jake doesn't bring his ice cream.
I can tell that that's what sustains you. And I
love it. I love everything about this story. I'm so
glad you called. I love everything about.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Well. Thank you so much for requesting me to call,
because I was like first person when Jay called, I went,
you're joking me, right?
Speaker 3 (14:51):
He is?
Speaker 1 (14:52):
No, seriously, night, I got all sorts of emails from
people that said they had texted you, called you emailed,
and I guess they couldn't get through to you to
make sure that you call. Well. It is called Another
Time Soda Fountain at eight hundred third Street in Rosenberg.
You can find it online, but real quick renee twenty seconds.
(15:13):
If I'm coming from downtown fifty nine Southwest Freeway, how
do I get to you?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
You take the Rosenberg exit thirty six and you go
to Avenue I. You take a right, and you take
a first left. In that second street, you go across
and you get in, take a right and you're there.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Please tell me the entirety of the Rosenberg Police Department
eats there every day.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Actually, the Rosenberg Police Department eats there a lot, and
I am appreciative of that because that means they're always
taking care of me.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Rene Butler, We love you another time. Soda Fountain in Rosenbergen.
Find it online, Go support them, have a great time.
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