Iconic Nashville soda shop hosts new USPS stamps launch

The immediate public show of support led to a new lease, a new owner and new popularity for the old-fashioned shop, which still has its classic tiled walls and floors, neon "food" and "soda" signs and red vinyl stools lining a Formica-topped counter.

Elliston Place was chosen as the launch site for the United States Postal Service's new "soda fountain favorites" stamps, in part because it still offers all five desserts they depict: double-scoop ice cream cone, egg cream, banana split, root beer float and hot fudge sundae.

Stamp collectors attending the first-day-of-issue ceremony could get a special cancellation designed to look like the soda shop's neon sign, complete with a sundae with a cherry on top.

In an age where people love to post photos of their food, who could resist snapping a picture of Miss Linda's coconut cream pie, topped with five inches of perfectly sculpted and browned merengue?