1911: RIKER'S DRUG STORE

I posted the photo below on this website many months ago and it has since been appearing here and there around the internet.However, the article I attached to that photo tells the interesting story of the Riker company who had similar super stores in other cities. Every time I look at that beautiful fountain, images of Victorian splendor come to mind. Perhaps a lovely Judy Garland hopping off that trolley with Tom Drake to partake in an ice cream soda with two straws! What an imagination!

1911 and 1923: RIKER'S DOWNTOWN DRUG STORE AND SODA FOUNTAIN

 

What charming old fashioned nostalgia comes upon us when we gaze upon an old fashioned drug store soda fountains. You remember drug stores, don't you? They sold drugs.....not be confused with the definition of the word today. I can imagine a Saturday night date with that lovely girl or one of them that I dreamed of back in my now ancient teen years, taking in a movie at the RKO Capitol, Trent, Lincoln and stopping in for an old fashioned ice cream soda! (Remember them?) Riker's was replaced by the Liggett chain of drug stores. On another note, the Kuser family sold the City Hall building which I added to the article above to the Lissner family back in the 1920's. (Little known historical fact)