I took this photo in Chicago's Marquette Park neighborhood at South Kedzie Avenue and West 64th Street, in December of 1985. This is a last look at how day to day life in Chicago used to be like decades ago.Seen here at the southeast corner of South Kedzie Avenue and West 64th Street, is a store that was known as the Blinstrub Pharmacy.
This old neighborhood icon from years past, was in the process of going out of business when I photographed it, as Mister Blinstrub was retiring.
Back in the days before CVS and Walmart, Chicago had many little neighborhood corner drugstores. Some like this one, sold candy, newspapers, and general discount merchandise as well as filling out a Doctors Prescription or two. Some had lunch counters, or would prepare Ice Cream Sundaes. A way of neighborhood community life, was taking it's final bow in Chicago.
3 comments:
Am I really that old? I can remember these stores so it must be true!
Awesome piece of nostalgia.
I remember this establishment well.
Soda was kept cold in an ordinary household-type fridge, an old one with round shoulders.
There used to be a neighborhood drug store like this, only a little bit larger, on the northwest corner of West 26th Street and South Kedzie Avenue in the little village neighborhod. They had a full service lunch counter with a soda fountain and wooden booths.
I believe the owner had either retired or passed away in 1973. The place has had a couple of different Mexican restaurants, and even a furniture store or two since the mid 1970's. The place has been remodeled so drastically with new windows and brick walls that You wouldn't recognize it today.
This was a vanishing way of neighborhood life in Chicago, and I miss it.
Thank You.
Eddie.
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