Pop Tate's Chocklit Shoppe is a fictional soda shop created by Bob Montana as a setting for the characters in his "Archie" comic books and comic strips. Tate's soda fountain was based on real-life locations frequented by teenagers in Haverhill, Massachusetts, during the 1930s—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 these Haverhill soda shops. In the years 1936 to 1939, when Montana went to high school in Haverhill, he would join his friends at the Chocolate Shop counter and make sketches on napkins. A decade prior to "Archie", the Sugar Shop was a hangout for the teenagers in Carl Ed's comic strip "Harold Teen".