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Fred Andrews: Archie's middle-class businessman father.Pop Tate has a recurring role in The CW's Riverdale, played by Alvin Sanders. This material served as a source for Montana when he launched Archie. In the late 1930s, Archie creator Bob Montana joined other teens at the Chocolate Shop counter where he made sketches on napkins or in the diary-sketchbook he kept of Haverhill happenings. These were the Crown Confectionery and the Chocolate Shop on Merrimack Street and the Tuscarora on Winter Street. The character of Pop Tate was inspired by the Greek immigrant owners of the three Haverhill, Massachusetts soda fountains frequented by Haverhill teenagers during the 1930s. As he and the gang go through stuff in the basement of the shop, they find enough evidence that the building is a historical landmark, which saves the shop and forces the land owner to build only a 6-screen theater.

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One particular comic had the owner of the block giving an eviction notice to Pop to vacate the store in a week so he could build a 12-screen movie theater. This has allowed him to capitalize on nostalgia.Ī fairly common plot is Pop Tate closing his shop and trying to sell it, which results in Archie and his friends scrambling to save it, generally by reminding everyone about the memories they have of the store, and telling them that losing the store would be horrible. Attempts at times for Pop to 'modernize' the shop have all failed and Pop's has retained its old-fashioned ice cream parlor atmosphere. Pop's shop has changed little over the years, and it still boasts a jukebox and old-time soda fountain.

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In the TV show “Riverdale,” the jolly dessertmaker’s proper name is given as Terence. Some stories have given Pop's real first name as Bob, Harold, Leo or Thomas, and in one story, it was given as Clark, but the official Archie Comics website gives his name as Terry. In still another comic, he purchased it as a young man from the retiring owner McGurk. In one installment of the series, it was revealed that Pop's dad was the original 'Pops,' while as a child he served at his side under the moniker 'Junior.' But some stories say that Pop opened the business himself. Like many things in the Archie continuity, Pop Tate's history has inconsistencies. In the 2000s, his main rival was Segarini, the pizza parlor owner, a minor but recurring character. In a comic centered on Pop, it was shown that he has a cousin named Russell, who runs a similar soda shop in the mountains.

Jughead has been known to run his tab as long as possible, and put off paying it until Pop refuses any more credit.

Many stories reflect the fact that his customers, particularly Jughead, don't always pay their tab. Tate constantly talks about how Jughead's appetite will provide for his retirement. He is a portly, thinning-haired, mustachioed gentleman who can seem gruff but is basically good-hearted. Pop Tate is the self-designated philanthropist for the Archie gang, hearing about their ups and downs while serving ice cream and an assortment of other tasty treats. Terry 'Pop' Tate is the owner and manager of the Chok'lit Shoppe, an ice cream parlor and frequent hangout of Archie's Gang.

Ryle Smith ( Archie's Weird Mysteries, The Archies in Jugman) Mike Nussbaum ( Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again)