These are shots of Richardson's at the corner of Church and Main Streets.
When I was growing up, we went here to drop off our film (which was mailed to places unknown for developing), fill prescriptions, sip Pink Ladies at the counter and /or browse for novelties at Rosie's Gift Shop next door.
Now it's a restaurant.
I have evidence old enough to be in the Mathews Museum if such a place existed that we once filled our prescriptions here. The bottle above dates to 1492 1982, just after I graduated high school. Evidently a torturous trip to the dentist required pain pills. Don't ask me why I still have this. I suppose the short answer has to do with wanting to be a museum curator nostalgia.
Today Richardson's is a quaint place to grab a bite to eat and reminisce about simpler times that may or may not have included a painful trip to the dentist.
Save that pill bottle! Everyday items like that are always the most interesting historic artifacts. After they pass through a few decades of being nothing more than old junk, of course.
ReplyDeleteCan you believe there was a time you went on vacation, shot maybe one or two rolls of 24 exposures for a 2 week trip, and then were ok with waiting a few weeks for the drugstore to send back your photos? Now I take 99 photos if the cat looks cute sleeping in the sun and want to see them right away.
--Betsy
Um, I think you need to clean out your medicine cabinet!! :-)
ReplyDeleteDidn't we eat there once?
ReplyDeletei do believe Kate's right and we ate in the restaurant that was once Richardson's
ReplyDeleteI am old enough (older than you!) to remember when going into "town" was an event during childhood. To stop somewhere and have a sandwich, or an ice cream cone, was exciting and going into a store 'just to look around' was a big deal...going to a corner grocery with cousins or playmates on a hot day to get pop sicles--so much fun.
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