Random "pic a day" thread!

marsattacks666 · April 07, 2019, 05:31:47 PM

This now defunct Department store was super cool and fun to go shopping. Circa-1973-1982.

Hepcat · April 08, 2019, 04:15:40 PM

The lunch counter at the Kresge store in downtown Windsor, Ontario in August 1975:

ChristineBCW · April 10, 2019, 09:07:38 AM

Down in Uvalde, Texas (west of San Antonio), there was a Rexall pharmacy with a counter, great burgers, and the only time I've ever had phosphates to drink.

But alas, my Google search shows that it's been closed in the last couple of years, with photos only from 2012 and 2014. Uvalde became too popular and ended up with larger chain pharmacies. The old Rexall pharmacists couldn't keep trained staff due to higher wages elsewhere, and it was difficult and expensive for them to hire Temp Pharmacists for much needed vacations. The two main pharmacists worked 4-5-6 years' straight. They eventually closed up shop when, as an independent, the big pharma distributors were cutting all the deals with competitors but sticking it to the indies.

Hepcat · April 10, 2019, 10:58:31 AM

Quote from: ChristineBCW on April 10, 2019, 09:07:38 AMDown in Uvalde, Texas (west of San Antonio), there was a Rexall pharmacy with a counter, great burgers, and the only time I've ever had phosphates to drink.

Oh wow!

I ordered a bottle of Acid Phosphate to mix up my own at home from this website:

Acid Phosphate - Art of Drink

Quote from: ChristineBCW on April 10, 2019, 09:07:38 AMBut alas, my Google search shows that it's been closed in the last couple of years, with photos only from 2012 and 2014.

Boooooo!!!! Drug store soda fountains were so cool, and now rarer than hens' teeth.