You don’t see many of these old Rexall drug store signs anymore, but the one at Malcolm’s Drugs is a Peterson Avenue landmark and is still in business. There was still an old Rexall sign in Fitzgerald when I was very young, in the early 1970s, but it’s long gone, as it the business it advertised.
This isn’t an advertisement, but rather an appreciation for the fact that this slice of Americana is still visible and serving its original purpose. I’m not sure when Malcolm’s opened, but my father remembers it from his days at South Georgia College, circa 1960-1962.
Downtown Douglas Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
In the 1940s, a Dr. Strange opened a drug store in Reidsville that he dubbed Strange Drugs. Later in that decade, he purchased a drug store in Dublin called, I think, Claxton Drug Company which he re-named Strange Drugs. As a teenager, I worked one summer in the Reidsville store, which Dr. Strange and his wife continued to operate after opening the Dublin store. He eventually closed the Reidsville store and moved to Dub
Thanks for the info. I always wondered abut that store.
My favorite drug store sign was on US 441 South in Dublin, GA. I used to see it when going through town on occasion. I don’t remember for sure if it was a Rexall store, I think it was. But the sign read “STRANGE” in the vertical center part, and “Drugs” in the lower horizontal part. I guess the pharmacist who owned the place had the last name of Strange. (That would make him “Dr. Strange” too!)
I have not been that way in a while so I don’t know if it’s still there. Coming into Dublin from Highway 80, I remember turning left onto 441 going south, to get to I-16, and it was on the right just a block south of the main drag downtown.