The back story to the pharmacy door: My Dad was a pharmacist for a living. The drug store also had a photo counter, cigar/cigarette counter with candy counter, a general store counter and items sold there, and an old time (what I called) fountain.
(source: Hometown Library)
If you look to back right upper corner, that is the pharmacy, with enclosed windows that were added later in the years. If I remember correctly, the enclosure was added to lock it up, due to people breaking in and stealing from the store. I can't recall if it was a business requirement, or because of the breaking and entering and stealing, but the enclosure make it possible to lock that area up.
At the "fountain" there was a counter with stools and booths to sit at. I grew up working behind that counter at nights and weekends. I sometimes worked for the main, full time gal Carol that ran the fountain. If my memory is correct, all of my siblings, at some point in their lives, also worked there. I think my first pay was $2.25/hour. I loved that job.
Dad built this door for the entrance to pharmacy counter he worked behind in the drug store (before the glass windows and door enclosure was added). He painted it, and when the store closed, he kept the door. When he passed, it was found at his apartment I think? I ended up with it, and had it for 2 years before figuring out what to do with it. We talked about many ways to use it, and one suggestion was to decorate a barn with it ha ha! I wanted a room pantry with this as the door (getting a kick out of the "pharmacy" painted on the door), and we considered it for other uses.
It's going to be a door for one coat cubbie, to replace a curtain, and keep the dust out. A work in progress, but getting done.
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