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175.page-title{
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177	font-size: 14px !important;
178	border-bottom: 
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212@media (min-width:600px) {
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214	#header-ads-left {
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220}
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224width: 30% !important;
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227}
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231}
232
233	
234}
235
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240
241#header-ads-right {
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245.header__logo {
246width: 100% !important;
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248
249.header__logo img{
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252
253}
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263
264.oht-menu--secondary li a {
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268
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271/* WIDGET & SECTION HEADERS */
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273
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276	padding: 5px;
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291    display: inline-block;
292    padding: 5px 10px;
293    z-index: 2;
294    position: relative;
295    border-right: 5px solid #fff;
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297    font-family: 'Oswald', sans-serif !important;
298    font-size: 12px;
299    font-weight: 500;
300    letter-spacing: .2px;
301    line-height: 1.3em;
302    color: #fff;
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304    text-transform: uppercase;
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307.sectionline {
308	  display:inline-block;
309		position: relative;
310    top: 50%;
311    left: 0;
312    right: 0;
313    height: 1px;
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315    background-color: #000;
316    z-index: 1;
317}
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319.widget-title{
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321	border-bottom: solid #EEE 1px;
322  text-transform: uppercase;
323  padding: 0px;
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327    font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif !important;
328	color: #0193cf;
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333	font-weight: 700;
334	color: #0193cf;
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339
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370    color: #222 !important;
371    background: #FCFCFC !important;
372    border-bottom: 1px solid #EEE;
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377    background: #0193cf !important;
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384	font-size: 12px !important;
385	padding: 2px;
386}
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390	  background-color: #555;
391}
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406	line-height: 2em;
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416	padding: 5px;
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422	color: #FFF;
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512	background-color: #EEE;
513	color: #015448;
514	padding: 5px;
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525}
526
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528{
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530}
531
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533	display: none !important;
534}
535
536.class_back {
537	display: none;
538	width: 200px;
539	margin: 5px;
540	font-size: 12px;
541	color: #FFF;
542  background-color:#015448;
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544	padding: 10px;
545	border-radius: 10px;
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552.class_back {
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560.post-type-archive .class_back{
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570	padding: 0px !important;
571	list-style-type: disc !important;
572}
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576	margin: 0px!important;
577	padding: 0px !important;
578}
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581padding: 10px;
582border-radius: 5px;
583background-color: #EEE;
584border: 0px;
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588padding: 10px;
589border-radius: 5px;
590color: #FFF;
591background-color: #0193cf;
592border: 0px;
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598.gfield_price{
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600	padding-top: 15px !important;
601	padding: 15px;
602	border-radius: 8px;
603}
604
605.gf_step_pending{
606	color: #000;
607}
608
609.gf_step_active{
610	color: #0193cf;
611}
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614	font-weight: bold;
615}
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618	margin: 0px !important;
619	padding: 0px;
620	font-size: 24px !important;
621	font-weight: bold;
622}
623
624h2.form_title{
625	background-color: #003566;
626	color: #FFF;
627	padding: 5px 15px;
628}
629
630
631/* OHT DMCA*/
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633footer .menu li {
634	list-style-type: disc;
635	color: #0193cf;
636}
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638footer .menu li a{
639	color: #333;
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644    background: #0193cf !important;
645    padding: 5px 10px;
646    color: #fff;
647    border-radius: 3px;
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649}
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668.single-oht_article .byline__author,
669.single-oht_article .byline__separator,
670.single-oht_article .byline__on {
671display: none;
672}
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676	border: 1px solid #DDD;
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681/*Subscribe Button*/
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688    font-size: 20px;
689    font-weight: bold;
690    margin-top: 15px;
691    margin-bottom: 15px;
692}
693
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695    display: inline-block;
696    margin: 10px 0;
697    padding: 10px 20px;
698    font-weight: 300;
699    font-size: 100%;
700    color: white;
701    background-color: #1e73be;
702    border-radius: 5px;
703}
704.mepr-price-box-button a:hover {
705		background-color:	#4E8CC3;
706}
707.mepr-price-menu.minimal_horizontal.minimal_gray_horizontal .mepr-price-box {
708    background-color: #EEE;
709		border:2px solid #dedede;
710}
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712/*LIVE STREAM*/
713.videoWrapper {
714  position: relative;
715  padding-bottom: 56.25%; /* 16:9 */
716  height: 0;
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1208<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">DAVIDSON – Downtown Davidson has been a shining example of the quintessential American small town for decades, in no small part thanks to the Soda Shop that has preserved its original 1951 charm.</span><!-- Error, Ad (n/a) is not available at this time due to schedule/budgeting/geolocation/mobile restrictions! -->
1209<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This month, the Davidson Soda Shop celebrates 75 years in business. On Oct. 28, 1951, Mary Potts and Murray Flemmings purchased the building at 104 S. Main St. and opened the M &amp; M Soda Shop. Seventy-five years later, the Soda Shop remains a fixture on Main Street, still serving egg salad sandwiches, milkshakes, phosphates and other favorites to generations of Davidson residents, college students and visitors.</span>
1210<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For owner Misty Utech, the anniversary is particularly meaningful. She&#8217;s celebrating 25 years behind the counter at the Soda Shop, first as an employee and then taking ownership in 2018.</span>
1211<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She was hired as an assistant manager in 2001 after moving to Lake Norman from Michigan, working both the front and kitchen and learning virtually every aspect of the business.</span>
1212<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Within a few years, Utech started telling regular customers that one day she hoped to own the restaurant. On her 40th birthday, she got her wish.</span>
1213<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The owner and I were sitting right here, and she had said that she was getting tired, and she was going to burn out,” Utech said. “I said, ‘Well, let me see if I can find an investor, and I would like to buy the place.’”</span><!-- Error, Ad (n/a) is not available at this time due to schedule/budgeting/geolocation/mobile restrictions! -->
1214<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She found an investor who believed in her, and the rest is history.</span>
1215<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I just loved it,” she said. “I love it. The community, everybody here, it’s a home away from home.”</span>
1216<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After a quarter-century at the Soda Shop, Utech has watched generations of Davidson families grow up around its booths and at the counter.</span>
1217<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I have seen a mom and a dad get pregnant and have their kid. And now I see the kid being pregnant and about to have a grandchild,” she said. “It’s rare to find places that can stay (the same) and can provide that (experience for generations).”</span>
1218<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Utech hopes to preserve that continuity for many years to come.</span>
1219<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“My goal is to never change anything here unless it has to be changed because keeping it the way that it is is what makes it so special to the community,” she said.</span>
1220<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That goal is more challenging than you might think. Maintaining a living time capsule while still keeping it functional for a modern business comes with some difficult decisions. Utech has resisted changes that would erase the soda shop’s character, even when newer equipment would be easier to maintain. For example, Utech spent two years after she bought the business debating whether she should replace the restaurant’s original soda machine. </span>
1221<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The old owner had pounded it into my head that if you change that soda machine, it’s going to change the taste,” she said.</span>
1222<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Eventually, she replaced it with a newer machine after consulting with Coca-Cola technicians who assured her the taste would not change.</span>
1223<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Other original or vintage pieces remain, including the wooden bar, booths and old cash register displayed above the entrance.</span>
1224<p>&nbsp;
1225<p><b>More than a place to eat</b>
1226<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Soda Shop’s history predates even its 1951 opening. The building was constructed after a 1906 fire that destroyed the original Brady fam
1226ily residence and wooden post office on the site. Dr. E. Quitman Houston rebuilt the structure in brick and operated the post office from part of the building. He was also a druggist, physician and teacher.</span>
1227<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The adjoining space later became Davidson’s first real café before Potts and Flemmings established the M &amp; M Soda Shop.</span>
1228<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">According to the Soda Shop’s history, Potts retired in 1985 after 34 years. After several subsequent proprietors, Deborah Caudle became proprietor in 1993 and then sold the business to Utech.</span>
1229<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Utech has added some touches of her own while keeping the restaurant’s foundation intact. She began making homemade soups, including a different soup each day. But five of the original sandwiches – egg salad, chicken salad, tuna salad, pimento cheese and cream cheese and olive –  remain on the menu using the same recipes dating to 1951.</span>
1230<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Many of the Soda Shop’s long-time staples are now making a niche comeback. Customers come in eager to try phosphates, egg creams and dirty sodas for the first time, even though they&#8217;ve been a part of the Soda Shop for decades.</span>
1231<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Almost always it comes back around,” Utech said.</span>
1232<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Being part of a college town meshes well with the nostalgia of the place. Utech estimates that about half of her customers are residents and half are Davidson College students, who can stop in, experience what decades of students before them experienced and see newspaper clippings and photos from long before their time at the school and, most often, long before they were born.</span>
1233<div id="attachment_266757" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-266757" class="size-large wp-image-266757" src="https://www.lakenormanpublications.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Soda-shop-outside-1024x768.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="768" srcset="https://www.lakenormanpublications.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Soda-shop-outside-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://www.lakenormanpublications.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Soda-shop-outside-300x225.jpg 300w, https://www.lakenormanpublications.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Soda-shop-outside-768x576.jpg 768w, https://www.lakenormanpublications.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Soda-shop-outside-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://www.lakenormanpublications.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Soda-shop-outside-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://www.lakenormanpublications.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Soda-shop-outside-960x720.jpg 960w, https://www.lakenormanpublications.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Soda-shop-outside-400x300.jpg 400w, https://www.lakenormanpublications.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Soda-shop-outside-133x100.jpg 133w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><p id="caption-attachment-266757" class="wp-caption-text">The early 1900s brick building housed a post office before the Soda Shop was established. /Lindsay Krone</div>
1234<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Utech said students who discover the Soda Shop during college often leave Davidson, build careers elsewhere and eventually return to town, sometimes bringing children and grandchildren of their own to experience the unique trip back in time.</span>
1235<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Summer does not necessarily mean business slows down, however. Davidson College camps bring families into town throughout the summer, while community events such as festivals, concerts and seasonal celebrations keep Main Street busy year-round.</span>
1236<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The town itself makes sure that the town stays busy,” Utech said. “They’re always trying to find ways to bring people into town.”</span>
1237<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That community support allows the Soda Shop to be part of Davidson’s larger identity rather than simply a place to eat. For Utech, that sense of community also extends to the young people who w
1237ork behind the counter.</span>
1238<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Many of her employees are teenagers, and she sees the job as an opportunity to teach them skills that go beyond taking orders and making sandwiches.</span>
1239<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“You’re here so that I can teach you how to have some sort of skills when you walk out of here,” she said. “Because if you walk out of this place not learning anything, then I have failed.”</span>
1240<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She teaches employees how to handle difficult customers, work with others and not take every criticism personally.</span>
1241<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It’s not just in here that they’re going to encounter it,” she said. “They’re going to encounter it when they walk out the door, too.”</span>
1242<p>&nbsp;
1243<p><b>Anniversary celebration</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span>
1244<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The 75th anniversary celebration will give Utech a chance to look backward while also celebrating the future.</span>
1245<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She plans to introduce throwback menu items on Wednesday, Oct. 28, including Orangeade, the original egg salad sandwich and a basic hot dog at retro prices. A new 75th anniversary T-shirt is also in the works.</span>
1246<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For Utech, however, the greatest anniversary celebration is simply being able to keep the doors open and the traditions alive.</span>
1247<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I just fell in love with it, and I’m here, and I feel blessed. I feel very happy that I’m here,” she said.</span>
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