World Series Mayhem Frame Color:White Soda fountains began to decline

Soda fountains began to decline after Prohibition was repealed in the 1930s and bottle caps were invented

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World Series Mayhem Frame Color:White Soda fountains began to declineThousands of baseball fans gathered outside the The Times building to witness the latest results of the World Series in October 1919. They were drawn by the arrival of a new electronic scoreboard known as the Star Ball Player, which quickly became the talk of Times Square. "There is no play possible on the ball field that cannot be shown on this board," The Times reported that the remarkable device was so speedy and exact that "within fifteen seconds