Historical February–March 2000 article. Dates, prices, services and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
if you look closely, you can see “Walgreen Co.” above the doorway of the Sherman Apartment Building at McPherson and Skinker, built in 1924. See the “Curb Service” signs? Sisters Dorothy Hogan and Ann Hogan Stapenhorst, who live on the 6100 block of McPherson, remember sipping sodas at the fountain of the Sherman Drugstore, later called Feldberg’s and then Sheehan’s. Even later came Barry Drug and Fitzpatrick Pharmacy.
The photograph also shows a corner of what was formerly the “Parkview Food Basket”, which in the twenties must have been a “Piggly Wiggly”.
Original photograph caption
Sherman Apartment Building at McPherson and Skinker, with neighborhood drugstore and adjacent shops. Courtesy Missouri Historical Society.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, February–March 2000.
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