Green RX Bottle
9/8/08
My grandmother (born in 1919) recently moved and my parents found this while helping pack up her apartment. The bottle reads:
R & M Drug Co.
Cut Rate Drugs
Corcoran, Calif. Phone 134
The prescription is for Alum Lump, but there's no doctor name. It's hard to read, but the glass bottle is made by "Duraglas". Corcoran is located in the Central Valley about halfway between Bakersfield and Fresno. According to Wikipedia, the population is 26,047.
A relic of another era... An era when phone numbers were 3 digits long :)
306887Verbeast
on July 3, 2009Nice finding and color!
Steve Lambert
on September 21, 2008nice capture. must have been aluminum?
Shelly
on September 10, 2008Great find, fantastic shot. Super color.
219352dedmanshootn
on September 10, 2008very cool, love that color
studio721
on September 10, 2008Nice shot of a very interesting find.
InOurTime
on September 9, 2008nice shot.
banjon
on September 9, 2008Cool - I saw some old calendars using 5 digits, where the leading extension consisting of only letters. I did a search on the history... man do you believe it took people 30+ years to use only numerals - 1965!! Talk about resistance to change. You mean no one in the 80+ years earlier every thought of just using numbers. :) There are still some businesses using two letters for the first digits of their phone number.. go figure.
54772APHOTO4YOU
on September 9, 2008unusual
Rick Willis
on September 9, 2008Interesting.
JenniferDiFranco
on September 9, 2008wow - it always amazes me the interesting things that can be found in an older persons home. Amazing history.