Might as well Go for a Soda
Downstairs in the Neufeld Science Centre you’ll find a buzzing computer lab behind door 009. But 36 years ago the room was buzzing with a different sound.
The Neufeld Science Centre, which used to be called the Arts and Sciences Building, housed the nucleus of the campus–The Snack Bar. Here a hamburger would set you back thirty cents and, if you wanted cheese on it, it would cost you ten cents more. A soda pop cost fifteen cents and French fries would break the bank at twenty-five cents.
“The Snack Bar was a gathering place,” recalls Professor of Music, David Rushton, ED.D. Because the main cafeteria had set meal hours and wasn’t always open, Rushton says that the Snack Bar “was about the only place on campus to meet outside of the cafeteria.” Rushton, who began his teaching career at TWU in 1973, has fond memories of having meals with faculty colleagues and students in the Snack Bar.
Complete with chrome stools and a soda shop counter, the Snack Bar sold chips, ice cream, coffee, milkshakes, sandwiches, burgers, Fanta soda pop, and more.
When asked what he normally purchased, Rushton admits to having strong ties with the French fries, so much so that whenever the cook, Alva Erickson, spotted him entering, she would immediately plunge a batch of fries into the fryer. “They were good fries as I recall,” laughs Rushton. EM