There were times at the soda fountain. However, those times were very infrequent. Living in the burbs, what 12-yo can hop in a car and drive to town? At boarding school, we could walk to a store and buy yogurt. Then, from 10th grade, there were not shops around school. Nothing available for sale at the RR Station in the mornings, nor in the afternoons, when returning home. But it was not so sad, really, because there was plenty of cheese, sliced meats, but you made your own from what as available in the refrigerator. Eating at restaurants was rather atypical for those living in the burbs. That was for city dwellers. Eating at home was normal, and for everyone, in the 50s and 60s.
