What do I recommend about the London Museum Cafe & Soda Fountain? Everything. The employees and volunteers are all super nice, friendly, and helpful. The cafe is spotless. The food is great. The soda fountain is fabulous, and the displays and artifacts in the museum are so extensive, and well presented that you have to take a tour to believe that such professionalism could actually exist in a small East Texas town. All of it is simply world class. On a scale of one to ten, I rate everything about this place at LEAST a twenty-five. It's that good.
Leigh-Anne Voigt
Thoughtfully laid-out exhibits and a knowledgeable tour guide tell the somber story of the day a generation died in this small town in East Texas. Both my father and my step father lived through this tragedy as school children, we attended the reunions for several years, it is part of our family lore. I appreciated this museum's attention to detail in recreating what happened that awful day.
Connie Catalani
Very nice with a very knowledgeable docent.
Ashleigh Smith
Growing up in this town an learning the history of the tragedy that took place I grew to love and respect the community and this museum has the best people to give tours of the museum and to get refreshments from. They are so sweet and their hospitality is above and beyond any service I’d ever received so far!! Thank you so much for a wonderful, and sincere experience!!
Michael Scarlett
This is an East Texas hidden gem! The museum is amazing, capturing the horror of that terrible day of Thursday afternoon, 18 March 1937. It wonderfully presents the school, the event, and life in the late 1930s. They have a great deal of high school memorabilia and items that reflect on early-mid 20th Century Americana.The greatest highlight to this place for me is the soda fountain! Yes--an actual, honest-to-goodness, working, operational soda fountain! For decades I've been looking to find a functioning soda fountain that served Coca-Cola. Our family visited a "soda fountain" in Galveston and what they meant was that the building/restaurant used to be a soda fountain--they had a regular machine found at most fast food restaurants, which was very disappointing.We were in New London picking up a package and was a little lost since Google and Apple Maps sometimes have difficulty with addresses. I pulled off the road right into their parking lot to make contact when I looked at the building and saw the words, "museum and soda fountain." I instantly looked for their hours and saw that they were opening soon. We made our pick up and headed back to the museum.A very friendly and hospitable volunteer greeted us and welcomed us in, showing us around the place. After going through the museum, we made our way back to the soda fountain counter. My boys were more interested in *this* part of the museum more than the museum itself. We sat down and all ordered Cokes. I didn't know exactly what I was going to get, but it was so much fun watching him pump the syrup into the classic-shaped Coca-cola green-tinted glass. I was so delighted and filled with joy as I took my first sip.They have Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite, Barqs Root Beer, and Dr. Pepper. They have cherry, strawberry flavors to tweak your drink. A drink includes one free refill. They sell Blue Bell ice cream and make floats, milkshakes/malts, and sundaes. They have meals for lunch with daily specials.If you're interested in history and nostalgia, you will thoroughly enjoy the London Museum & Cafe. At the time of this review admission to the museum is $5 for adults and $3 for children.
Kevin Terry
Visited the museum on my way to the Cardinals- Rangers series in Arlington. Had heard about the tragic event in 1937 from my father in law, a retired gas worker. It is sad that an event like this had to take place in order for the “rotten egg” smell” to be added to our gas.
marilyn shannon
What a great tribute!! So well done
Daphne Smith
I could spend hours just looking at everything and reading about every item
Gerry Wakeland
We took our Senior Group from Oakland Heights Baptist Church in Longview today. We enjoyed a delicious lunch. The prices are very reasonable. 25 of us enjoyed the tour of the museum led by a very knowledgeable docent. It was a great trip. Everyone should see this museum.
Rob Vanderlaan
We were on our way to the oil museum in Kilgore, but they were closed due to a power outage. They told us about the New London museum, so we went over there. What an awesome little museum. All the volunteers were very friendly and they could tell is all about the tragic disaster in 1937. It was very informative. We live in Tyler, but never knew what exactly happened on that dreadful day. We also had some icecream, and the best fountain drinks we ever had. You can not get cheaper fountain drinks than here, and they were delicious. Absolutely worth dropping by and get yourself educated and have some great drinks.
Wonderful museum honoring the tragic deaths of the New London school explosion of 1937. Information is well-researched and educational. Volunteers running the museum were kind. The old fashioned soda was great too! We want to go back on a weekday and try the café.
Vickie Rabouin
Beautifully put together . Café was very good . The ladies that run both side where amazing
Terry DeCuir
Very nice! Enjoyed looking back in time!!
Liz Culter
Tour guide was awesome. History of the incident was very well put together. Enjoyed going through museum.
What do I recommend about the London Museum Cafe & Soda Fountain? Everything. The employees and volunteers are all super nice, friendly, and helpful. The cafe is spotless. The food is great. The soda fountain is fabulous, and the displays and artifacts in the museum are so extensive, and well presented that you have to take a tour to believe that such professionalism could actually exist in a small East Texas town. All of it is simply world class. On a scale of one to ten, I rate everything about this place at LEAST a twenty-five. It's that good.
Thoughtfully laid-out exhibits and a knowledgeable tour guide tell the somber story of the day a generation died in this small town in East Texas. Both my father and my step father lived through this tragedy as school children, we attended the reunions for several years, it is part of our family lore. I appreciated this museum's attention to detail in recreating what happened that awful day.
Very nice with a very knowledgeable docent.
Growing up in this town an learning the history of the tragedy that took place I grew to love and respect the community and this museum has the best people to give tours of the museum and to get refreshments from. They are so sweet and their hospitality is above and beyond any service I’d ever received so far!! Thank you so much for a wonderful, and sincere experience!!
This is an East Texas hidden gem! The museum is amazing, capturing the horror of that terrible day of Thursday afternoon, 18 March 1937. It wonderfully presents the school, the event, and life in the late 1930s. They have a great deal of high school memorabilia and items that reflect on early-mid 20th Century Americana.The greatest highlight to this place for me is the soda fountain! Yes--an actual, honest-to-goodness, working, operational soda fountain! For decades I've been looking to find a functioning soda fountain that served Coca-Cola. Our family visited a "soda fountain" in Galveston and what they meant was that the building/restaurant used to be a soda fountain--they had a regular machine found at most fast food restaurants, which was very disappointing.We were in New London picking up a package and was a little lost since Google and Apple Maps sometimes have difficulty with addresses. I pulled off the road right into their parking lot to make contact when I looked at the building and saw the words, "museum and soda fountain." I instantly looked for their hours and saw that they were opening soon. We made our pick up and headed back to the museum.A very friendly and hospitable volunteer greeted us and welcomed us in, showing us around the place. After going through the museum, we made our way back to the soda fountain counter. My boys were more interested in *this* part of the museum more than the museum itself. We sat down and all ordered Cokes. I didn't know exactly what I was going to get, but it was so much fun watching him pump the syrup into the classic-shaped Coca-cola green-tinted glass. I was so delighted and filled with joy as I took my first sip.They have Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite, Barqs Root Beer, and Dr. Pepper. They have cherry, strawberry flavors to tweak your drink. A drink includes one free refill. They sell Blue Bell ice cream and make floats, milkshakes/malts, and sundaes. They have meals for lunch with daily specials.If you're interested in history and nostalgia, you will thoroughly enjoy the London Museum & Cafe. At the time of this review admission to the museum is $5 for adults and $3 for children.
Visited the museum on my way to the Cardinals- Rangers series in Arlington. Had heard about the tragic event in 1937 from my father in law, a retired gas worker. It is sad that an event like this had to take place in order for the “rotten egg” smell” to be added to our gas.
What a great tribute!! So well done
I could spend hours just looking at everything and reading about every item
We took our Senior Group from Oakland Heights Baptist Church in Longview today. We enjoyed a delicious lunch. The prices are very reasonable. 25 of us enjoyed the tour of the museum led by a very knowledgeable docent. It was a great trip. Everyone should see this museum.
We were on our way to the oil museum in Kilgore, but they were closed due to a power outage. They told us about the New London museum, so we went over there. What an awesome little museum. All the volunteers were very friendly and they could tell is all about the tragic disaster in 1937. It was very informative. We live in Tyler, but never knew what exactly happened on that dreadful day. We also had some icecream, and the best fountain drinks we ever had. You can not get cheaper fountain drinks than here, and they were delicious. Absolutely worth dropping by and get yourself educated and have some great drinks.
Restaurantji Recommends
Great place!
Wonderful museum honoring the tragic deaths of the New London school explosion of 1937. Information is well-researched and educational. Volunteers running the museum were kind. The old fashioned soda was great too! We want to go back on a weekday and try the café.
Beautifully put together . Café was very good . The ladies that run both side where amazing
Very nice! Enjoyed looking back in time!!
Tour guide was awesome. History of the incident was very well put together. Enjoyed going through museum.
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