A couple of quick memories about Peoples Drug
This July post got us started talking about memories of Peoples Drug.
Included was this photo, originally seen on June Lloyd’s Universal York blog. It shows the store in September 1955, with its windows taped as protection against a coming storm.
Kathleen Campbell Beaverson says, “This picture sure does bring back great memories!!! Going in there sitting at the soda fountain and getting drinks!!!”
And my friend Melanie P., a former Yorker now living in Virginia, said, “People’s Drug!! I worked for People’s for 12 years, starting in 1976 (down here in Virginia, alas, not in York). Minimum wage in ’76 was $2.30 an hour. Hershey bars were, I think, 15 cents. You could buy a six pack of the big bottles of Coke on sale for 99 cents. And during Back To School season, metal lunchboxes with Thermoses were around $2 or $3. Why didn’t I buy one of each back then? They’d be worth a small fortune now! LOL! And the soda fountain… best cheeseburgers and milkshakes in town. Good, good memories!”
Any other Peoples Drug memories to share? I’d love to hear them!
