#rexall drugstores

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It’s a whaaaat? Illustration detail from a Rexall Drugstore ad - 1947.

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Outsiders Week Day One - How Ponyboy got his Bouncy Ball

It all started when Dally went to get more cigarettes.

Johnny and I tagged along because we had nothing better to do, and frankly we also needed a weed. 

“Can y'all get any slower? C’mon man hurry up!” Dally called. 

We were headed to the Rexall Drugstore. Dally, Johnny, and I usually hit it up because we never got caught using the five finger discount. That and it was one of the only corner stores in the East Side.

Gravel crunched underneath my Chucks and stray dogs barked in the distance. The smell of cigarette smoke and a slight chill wafted through the air.

Autumn was starting to set in. Soon I would have to convince Johnny to sleep at our house instead of at that old lot. Speaking of Johnny, he was kicking a pebble down the street. We were kind of dragging our feet, and this was getting Dally real worked up.

“I oughta leave you two slowpokes behind,” Dally spat.

There was no real venom behind his voice, but the comment made Johnny snap out of his daze real quick.

“Wait up, Dal!” he called, jogging to catch up. I followed close behind.

The facade of the building came into view. “REXALL STORE” was written on the front in real big red lettering. The paint was peeling and there were always signs that advertised sales in the glass display windows. We had arrived.

“Alright we’re here to lift some cigarettes. Make sure no one sees ya. I don't wanna be put in the cooler again, got it?” said Dally.

Johnny nodded profusely.

“Got it,” I mumbled.

“Great,” Dally grunted.

He pushed open the door, and a little bell jingled overhead. Dally slowly headed up towards the front, while Johnny and I wandered around. It was tough to be inconspicuous because the store was so small. We were eyeing up the penny candy when something caught my eye. It was a bouncy ball. A bright orange bouncy ball. It was like that thing was calling my name. Johnny and I stared at it for a good second. I was about to grab the ball when the owner started making a fuss.

“Hey, get back here greaser!” the owner shouted.

He was angrily waving around a newspaper as Dally bolted out the door. I started to panic. I looked at Johnny, and his eyes were real wide.

“Shoot! We gotta bounce!” 

I started to run, and almost tripped over my own two feet. Johnny followed close behind. Even though he was small, he was as quick as a jackrabbit. I don’t know how long the owner of the store followed us until he gave up, but we stopped running about two blocks away just to be safe.

“So much for not getting caught,” I wheezed.

I was on the track team, but my lungs weren’t too good. I guess it's from all the smoking I do.

“Shut your trap, Pony!” Dally snapped. He looked all sour. “No one’s getting a weed now. We came here for nothin!”

Maybe Dally was right. I started to get all glum.

Then, Johnny pulled the bouncy ball I was eyeing out of his jeans pocket. I let out a surprised laugh. I couldn’t believe it! We were getting chased by the store owner and Johnny somehow swiped the ball in the process. He dropped it into my palm. I turned the ball over in my hands and smiled. The rubber shined in the sunlight. I bounced it up and down and laughed again.

“Thanks Johnny. You’re a real buddy,” I smiled, and put my arm around him.

“Yeah … no problem,” Johnny stuttered. A little blush creeped up on the back of his neck.

We walked back, and I bounced the ball the entire way home.

[onefootin1941]

Owl Rexall drugstore in Redondo Beach, June 1950. Exact location not provided.

[vintage-tech]

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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Independent drugstore closures threaten to turn communities into "pharmacy deserts"

Kempson Rexall drugstore has been a staple in the small community of Inman, South Carolina, since 1905. The nearest hospital is about a half-hour drive away, so in a family medical moment, many of the town’s 3,200 residents often call here first. “This store means the world to this community,” said owner and pharmacist Marianne McElveen. “Our customers are extremely loyal. They love us. They love…

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Private equity firm Birch Hill signs deal to buy Rexall Pharmacy and Well.ca

Drugstore chain Rexall Pharmacy Group and online retailer Well.ca are due to land under Canadian ownership after a Toronto-based private equity firm announced Thursday that it would purchase both brands from McKesson Corp. Source: CP24 Private equity firm Birch Hill signs deal to buy Rexall Pharmacy and Well.ca

[mizumushi416]

it's been a few months. Basically three months of treatment. I finished this week.

I started with Whitfield's ointment for the first time but I honestly think this exacerbated the problem. I went from just two toes infected to five by the end of it, both feet.

I went to rexall and got Canesten (?) Which is the "stop it from growing" sort of treatment. I followed their regimen for 1 month, soaking my socks and tights in borax and washing the socks on hot, white vinegar rinse, drying them with our hottest setting. I disinfected my shoes with spray Lysol, religiously at first, and then once I started seeing the infection settle down, after each long wear. Applied Gold Bond powder at work in between taking shoes on and off. Tights and pantyhose were soaked in borax and then washed cold, hung to dry. (I'm not confident this was "enough" but it's what I did at the time.) I also did multiple borax foot soaks, at least once a week, with a 1/2 cup borax and enough hot water to cover. I kept more hot water in a Starbucks tumbler nearby so I could extend the soak to 20-30 minutes. Then I applied the Canesten.

I thought we were clear, but we weren't. A few days after stopping treatment at 4 weeks, I saw a little bit of shedding skin at the pinky toe. I grabbed a can of aerosol Tinactin at the airport drugstore to control it as I didn't have the cream. It definitely didn't seem to be working very well so I got the cream off brand Tinactin a week later (so aiming to kill rather than discourage growth) and immediately started a round of that. I used the cream just short of three weeks and the aerosol a week for slightly under a month total, and in the last week I wore the paper toe separators from Japan when I could and applied my German spray disinfectant after showers and before bed. Continued to borax soak my tights without heat or vinegar, so if this infection comes back again (we're still clear on day 5 after a shower) it may be that the disinfecting of the tights and other hand wash stuff wasn't enough. If it stays gone, this regimen should be good.

Fingers and toes crossed!

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#90 | How Trader Joe's Curate

In the 1950s, a recent Stanford Business School graduate, Joe Coulombe, worked for the Rexall drugstore chain. Tasked with establishing a chain of convenience stores, he soon saw the model wasn’t sustainable with the competition in the industry. Inspired by the burgeoning California wine industry and the increasing taste of Americans for imported foods, Joe thought of creating a store for the…

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Rexall would pay you $1 for your old douche bag? Did they have some sort of secret fetish side-line business we don’t know about?

That’s like $10 in today’s money.

Life   February 9th 1962

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"Southington, Connecticut. Girls at drugstore. Luncheonette and Fountain Service.” Photographed by Fenno Jacobs for the Office of War Information, 1942.

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W. J. Hughes -- The Rexall Drugstore on the Corner

W. J. Hughes — The Rexall Drugstore on the Corner

Photo-Adin Wesley Daigle Mayor of Carleton Place – 1922 – Druggist Photo- – Rootsweb– Photos-Carleton Place and Beckwith Heritage Museum 127-131 Bridge Street Carleton Place Circa 1870 The first storey storefronts of this building have been modified from the original glass windows for easier viewing of merchandise–hence the different colours of brick. 127-131 Bridge Street has housed a number…

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Edit 1/2: Purple 💜

This photo belongs to me - I took and edited it! 💜🌙

Shot with Canon EOS 20D.

CREDIT ME if you repost please.

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[outhereontheprairie]

Rexall Drugstore, Dickens Fest, Garrison ND by Arielle Seibold-Galston Via Flickr: I'm so glad this old place is still around in my home town of Garrison ND. When I was growing up there my mom and brother and I used to walk down to the drug store and Cameron and I used to pick out these little plastic dogs that were in individually wrapped plastic. You never knew which one you were getting so we would sit there and try and "feel" which dog was in each package while my mom shopped for what she needed. Ah, memories! As some of you may remember, I hail from a little town called Garrison in the great state of ND. I moved away when I was 12, but it's still very much home to me. And there are many things I love about Garrison. Lake Sakakawea being only a few minutes away, the wonderful people, the community spirit...but I think one of the best things is Dickens Fest. The town started Dickens fest when I was only a few years old, and they've been doing it ever since! The town transforms into the very picture of Christmas with a focus on Charles Dickens classic novel, A Christmas Carol. The town children become street urchins, caroling and begging for coins (I used to be one!), the citizens walk around in period costumes and at the end of the evening the town puts on a different version of A Christmas Carol at the local theatre each year. Before the play starts someone leads the crowd in a round of Christmas carols. It's all really very quaint and wonderful and storybook-eque. I finally got my friend Brittany to attend with me this year. And of course my husband and my dad came along as well. Brittany had been regaled with stories of Dickens Fest for years so she was very excited to be there, and she told me after we left that it totally lived up to her expectations! Overall it was one of the best years at Dickens Fest yet. I got to see old friends, some of whom I haven't seen for years an years, the weather was great and it started lightly snowing near the end of the evening, and we all had a great time! While there, I decided to practice taking candids of people and of the festival in general, simply because I need the practice as I struggle with photographing people and photographing anything in low light. So these photos aren't perfect, but what you'll see over the next week(s) are my photos of Dickens Fest 2016 and I really hope you like them and comment :)

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(via Speaking with Artist, Trevor Mitchell)

i love this wall mural painting...i used to save my allowance to buy matchbox cars when i was young. i was quite taken with them and the display in the rexall drugstore.

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Private equity firm Birch Hill signs deal to buy Rexall Pharmacy and Well.ca

Drugstore chain Rexall Pharmacy Group and online retailer Well.ca are due to land under Canadian ownership after a Toronto-based private equity firm announced Thursday that it would purchase both brands from McKesson Corp. Source: CP24 Private equity firm Birch Hill signs deal to buy Rexall Pharmacy and Well.ca