Old-timey Drugstores

[TN_Vixen]

Remember them? I called on a client this morning that happened to be just that. The pharmacist greeted each customer by name, asked after their wives by name and actually looked them in the eye standing still to listen to their stories.

Comic books on the round twirl rack

The floor creaking with the weight of each step

The customers who enter and casually take a seat in no hurry to bother their good friend, the local pharmacist.

There was a drugstore I used to go to in Tellico when I was just a girl. The floors were dark wood, ceiling fans circled lazily overhead. I would get a pack of cheese crackers and an honest to God fountain coke (or chocolate malt milkshake) and sit in the iron-back chairs to flip through my comic book and smile as one of the locals walked in the sit at the counter and shoot the breeze.

It was nice to see that it still exists today in some fashion. Made my day.

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

I like to make.....

Quick hard love behind the pill shelves - while grannies wait in line for their sav.

 

[Guest]

PRICE CHECK!

WE NEED A PRICE CHECK ON THE EXTRA SMALL, SUPER SENSITIVE TROJANS FOR AMBROSIOUS HERE!

PRICE CHECK!

 

[Ambrosious]

They just fit better...

 

[Arby]

Wow!!!!!TN-Vixen, You bring back some memories!

I remember the drugstore in a small Kansas town many years ago!

I was a sophomore in High School and had to work to make ends meet. I applied for the job and was working 10 minutes later. Turns out the guy who was teaching me to "Jerk Sodas" was into too many High school activities to work.

There were only three booths, about ten stools, but they were full from the time I got to work after Football Practice about 5:30 P.M. until I left at about nine P.M. I used to try different flavors with the "Cokes" I made at the fountain. You really find out a lot about the people you serve when you have a job like that. I loved that work. Almost became a bartender because of it,
and I can still remember when I had to change the Carbon Dioxide tank in the basement, under the Fountain area. We made our own carbonated water.

The Boss always told me to experiment, because you never know when you hit upon a winner, like Cherry-Cokes.

We sold a ton of Ice Cream over that counter every week.

I found out later that the Boss Wrote the song "Crusin Down The River On a Sunday Afternoon." He was into everything.

I remember sweeping up at about 8:45, The old wood floor had to have oiled sawdust to catch all the dust. That sweeping compound made the floor glisten when you were through.

Thanks for the memories!
Arby

 

[Expertise]

One of our clients is an honest to god apothecary and pharmacist. He sees my number on his phone and he answers 'Alchemists is us". Very cool guy.

The store itself is very modern though.

 

[curvacious]

my grandfather owned a pharmacy, and that's where my "second home" was. I started working there when I was about 13, occassionally dusting the shelves. At 15 I started as a regular employee. It was nice to get to know people in your community. There was also a soda fountain with several wonderful treats--ice cream (soft and hard), milkshakes and malts, fountain pops {yes, cherry coke, although I liked vanilla or strawberry 7up}, and phosphates {pronounced fos fate----a sour flavored drink). it was great when people came in and told about how they used to come there "in the good 'ol days".

 

[Naked Hunny]

we still have a place like that in my town!

 

[CreamyLady]

There was a pharmacy in town where I could get the greatest vanilla phosphate ever. It closed, and a very trendy pharmacy opened some years later: lots of "cute" gifts and specialty items, a very expensive (and not so generous) fountain, and a pharmacy that is famous for the not-so-bright clerks who keep asking the same questions.