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Drugstore, D茅troit 馃嚭馃嚫 Michigan 1955/56
Photo de Robert Frank
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boston, massachusetts
1971
phillips drug, beacon hill
photograph by nick dewolf
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dboo/50393041568
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Today's throwback is how in my neighborhood, Drug Emporium (1977-2001) became Longs Drugs (1938-2008), then the building became a Lowes hardware store. So this bag is not technically vintage yet since it's under 25 years old, but the chain is long gone [except in Hawai'i, where CVS kept the name on 50 stores].
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Vanished: the drugstore lunch, November 9, 1955. Part of a series of photos called Career Girl in NY (the "girl" in question is on the left).
Photo: John Vachon for Look magazine via MCNY
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boston, massachusetts
1969
phillips drug, beacon hill
photograph by nick dewolf
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dboo/albums/72157594564067670/
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Things you rarely see today but used to be in every town (quoting Wikipedia, there were "12,000 stores across the United States from 1920 to 1977"): Rexall Drugs. Above are two of the store in the town where I grew up from the mid-1980s. Rexall still exists in some way -- they're all over Canada as a thriving company, yet are sporadically around the United States (such as Ranko's in Tacoma) because the chain dissolved but some former franchise stores have kept the name.
There's only one vestage of the once-mighty Rexall Drugs still in existance and you've been there: Corporate decided they wanted to try competing with 7-Eleven in 1958, and created six stores in Los Angeles under the name "Pronto Mart". In time Rexall decided to end that venture, but the man managing the stores bought them out instead of closing them. The manager was Joe Coulombe and the stores (after a change in name and marketing direction) are now called Trader Joe's.
Bonus note about this particular store, which closed around 1987: The signage on the corner over the entrance says it was also a member of the IDL drugstores (Independant Drug League), which disbanded in the 1960s yet I recall there being several drugstores in my neck of the woods that still used the name into the 1980s. The logo is half-obscured in my photos so here it is another way:
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Oczy bardziej wyjebane ni偶 kurwy na autostradzie
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