Rexall Drug - Life in America

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[@luisreyes1963]

How I miss the days of drug stores with lunch counters & soda fountains. 😞

[@kerinohwithatwist]

There’s 1 drug store that still have a soda fountain in the drug store, it’s in pasadena ca. I don’t know if it’s still open because if the quarantine but hopefully it’s still there

[@gregggoss2210]

Hello fellow Fred Flix fan.

[@MrMenefrego1]

@@gregggoss2210 Me too! Fred Flix is truly awesome!

[@itinerantpatriot1196]

The Rexall near us had a great lunch counter; awesome fries and floats. I drove through the old neighborhood with a friend last year and the shape it's in now broke my heart. I thought about that old Rexall on the corner where a bunch of nothing sits now. Time marches on I guess. Like you though, I miss the old lunch counters. Had many a good meal that one and the one at the Woolworth's down the street from Rexall's.

[@golden.lights.twinkle2329]

@@kerinohwithatwist There is also one in Ely, Nevada.

[@halbud]

Damn it man ,why can't we go back to these times !!! I miss them so much!!

[@Tiffany-vj1tv]

😢me too! I think all of us who come to this channel wish we could go back 🙏❤️the world was very different then, seen through the eyes of a young person looking forward to what life was going to be. Stay safe and healthy 🥂

[@cindy4964]

@@Tiffany-vj1tv That goes for me also. Those were great, fun times.

[@loveandfaith6517]

Thank you so much.... I was born in 1952, and things are not the same at all. We had Rexall Drug in our little town, it was an icon, if you would say "the Drug Store" everyone know what you meant. I am so thankfulfil to be born in an era such as I was

[@Tiffany-vj1tv]

Ahhhhh when the world seemed a better place and time... we all had high hopes for a good life and bright future ❤️now it is fond memories and a long journey we have traveled here to our future... the days are long but the years are short 😢🙏🥂 bittersweet

[@sonhuynh8222]

Beautifully said ❤

[@raymondhoelscher9307]

Love these old videos and the history of our country!!

[@Bigskyguy56]

Agree. I grew up through the 1950 -1960s . It is sad to see what we have lost .. I would gladly go back there & stay. Never to see this so called world we live in currently.

[@jefferypardue7509]

@@Bigskyguy56 if you want to go back to the 1950s and 60s you'll have to remember the racism and hateful ways against the lgbtq community if that's your thing. I am a homosexual 🏳️‍🌈

[@dwightpowell6673]

@@jefferypardue7509 and the hatred and murder of black people

[@sonhuynh8222]

@@Bigskyguy56 I agree

[@robertt7069]

I miss those cafes in the stores. Nice train...

[@voodookitchenmama]

The Rexall Drug Store near me just closed it's doors this past year. Very sad. It had a compounding drug store, a post office, and a wonderful 50's type diner in the back of the store with amazing food, and they were known for their 99 cent breakfast,which was served until the day they closed. I miss the place, it was one of those places you could take guests from out of town and they were amazed such a store still existed. Everyone ALWAYS wanted to have a meal in the diner.

[@mikefriedman593]

so sad places like this have to close nowadays

[@freedomring4813]

Oh my God, we live in the same place but the breakfast was 88 cents. I just left a comment like yours ...What ever became of...Beatty Boop? Are we talking about the same ...Rexall????

[@voodookitchenmama]

@@freedomring4813 YES! It was 88 cents for the breakfast! I believe we live in the same area! I never heard of any other Rexall that had this price on a breakfast. Small world!

[@freedomring4813]

@@voodookitchenmama LOL, I use to buy 2 breakfast for 88 cents but they stopped that . I did the 4 lane road project in 2004 by Cooter pond and the boat ramp. I moved to the area in 2016 and live half a mile away from the boat ramp and the now closed down Rexall. The Huttle House I wasn't expecting to open back up but luckily they did.

[@voodookitchenmama]

@@freedomring4813 Didn't know they reopened that place! I'll have to go over to get a waffle. : )

[@gattifan609]

This channel is PURE GOLD!!

[@Tiffany-vj1tv]

Yes it is😊❤️!!!

[@cherriaydelotte8327]

👍

[@GenerallyGeneralLee]

The music is classy & relaxing, the narration is kept to a minimum & they let the video speak for itself. I agree it's one of KZbin's best.

[@iadorenewyork1]

I love it.

[@summerrose4286]

My favorite.

[@ArtificialBanana]

I enjoy and appreciate this whole series! The common thread is that commerce used to have a lot more soul.

[@bobwitkowski6410]

The soda bar is what I miss the most in all drug stores and department stores. They often had good malts, shakes, and hot dogs.

[@Sakja]

Hot dogs just don't taste the way they did back then.

[@TenOrbital]

Oh have they gone. I remember visiting America (from Australia) in the early 80s and being surprised by seeing a food counter in a pharmacy.

[@seth5394]

that’s america if i’ve heard it, land of the free experimental therapy and shitty food (at least for your health not in taste)

[@hearttoheart4me]

Never knew it as Rexull, I always called it Rexall. Either way I loved our local store. Lunch counter, comics stand and lots of penny candy.

[@bernicejustice5235]

Thank you for the lovely memories, ❤️❤️❤️

[@TXMEDRGR]

I'm always amazed at how much better people dressed in the old days.

[@lohphat]

And weren't 60 lbs. overweight, dressed like they chose whatever was at the top of the laundry basket.

[@TheRedsofine]

How much better they behaved too.

[@cekalble]

When Oma took us "Downtown". We were dressed in our finest Sunday clothes. Oma never left her home w/o a hat for the season and gloves. We had better be on our best behavior or we wouldn't get treated at Luckey and Platt's lunch counter. Egg salad on white with a Chocolate Malt "Meet me under Luckey's" clock" at Noon" was the rendezvous for everyone.

[@olivercrangle7160]

They could afford to do so as housing costs and taxes were much less.

[@maxbrown8044]

@@TheRedsofine I am sorry to hear that people have treated you poorly or behaved poorly around you. I myself rarely experience bad behavior coming from young people -- or old people for that matter. What kind of bad behavior do you tend to observe?

[@JT-sz7xc]

Back in the days when individual things were left on the counter because you had honest people, unlike today where you have to have two security guards and a password just to unlock the razor blades.

[@06colkurtz]

We used to be a Christian nation raised on the golden rule

[@juliemarchese-temple7749]

Yep!!

[@eddiemunster4094]

I thought the same thing when I scene the cigarette stand on the counter!

[@alcamerc9923]

JT, I feel your pain, but things are different now, life’s purpose is different, America is different and I dare say not a nice place to live anymore. Thank God my children are grown. I see what today’s parent have to go through.

[@olivercrangle7160]

LBJ's Great Society leading to Obama's transformation.

[@canamrider07]

My Dad was a pharmacist and owned a Rexall Pharmacy in Escondido, Ca. I grew up working there since when I was around 6 years old to when I went off to college. Big part of my life and it was always fun “working” there. From sweeping the sidewalk to stock boy to delivery boy, it was a blast. My Dad worked hard but ended up closing the store and ended his career at a big discount drug store. I’ll never forget those years and the times I closed the store at night and shared a beer with my Dad and friends.

[@marianlong]

I always liked the soda fountain at our local Rexall store when I was a kid. Not many soda fountains around anymore.

[@glenngosline3303]

Thank you for bringing these videos and stories to us. As you hear so many times. When times were better and we did not know what we had and where we have headed to. God Bless America.

[@OofusTwillip]

Healthwise, those times weren't better. There were no vaccines or cures for common diseases that could kill or maim people for life. There were no antibiotics either. And until the Elixir Sulfanilamide disaster of 1937, consumer protection laws were almost non-existent. The one good thing about living in such a dangerous world, was that people took epidemics seriously, because they knew diseases could kill you, and if the authorities told you to quarantine or wear a mask, you either did it, or you went to jail, or got quarantined at home with armed guards at the doors and windows to make sure you didn't sneak out and infect people.

[@RichardCockerill]

@@OofusTwillip very funny lol

[@lylecoglianese1645]

@@OofusTwillip, are you REALLY Mrs. Fauci?? It seems like you enjoy fear mongering like he does. There were no armed guards outside peoples homes because they had the flu, measles or even polio!! Noone wore useless masks and avoided others by governmental insanity. Vaccines were around for years in that time frame. Back to watching CNN for you 🤔!!

[@jasondaniel918]

@@OofusTwillip Thank you for mentioning the Elixir Sulfanilamide disaster of 1937. I am in my 70's and I had never heard of the incident.

[@a.j.patron9214]

@@lylecoglianese1645 DUMBASS Q-TIP!!!

[@shawnbeckmann1847]

Back in the mid-seventies when my Mom would go to the Kroger in Pacific Missouri I would walk down to the Rexall Drug store and buy my comics and magazines Good Times

[@OofusTwillip]

In the 1940s, the NBC radio series "The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show" was sponsored by Rexall for several years. There was a Rexall fanfare, and commercials with Griff Barnett as "Your Friendly Rexall Druggist". The show itself was a wild, surreal, domestic sitcom that worked Rexall into the storylines. Many episodes are on KZbin, and are in such good quality sound, that you'd swear they were made in the past few years.

[@bodybuilderslave7125]

I remember a storyline about Phil's toothache. The dentist told him to drink bourbon until he came in. Whoever Phil was talking to asked how long he's had the toothache, Phil said "7 years."

[@davidsigalow7349]

The "Phil and Alice" show is hilarious and is one of the treasures of The Golden Age of Radio. Phil and his dumb buddy Remley are impossibly funny.

[@davidmccrory2115]

My 86 year old father owned our small town Rexall drug store and kept the name and signage until he retired and sold out in 1997. I have 2 beautiful 1950’s era Rexall clocks and numerous other Rexall items in my home. So many different items carried the Rexall logo on them. It was fantastic advertising!

[@roscoeshepard]

The small town I live in NC still has a Rexall drug store.

[@sharongarcia9640]

Great soda counter!

[@murattaylan9602]

God bless USA.

[@alabamasmokeywilson6818]

My Aunt Lena. Worked at the Rexall Drug for 25 years in Ashville Alabama

[@bparrish517]

Louisville, Ky 1950s...late night trips there with my parents for whatever ailed me. The pharmacist cared for us like a doctor and that sign still shines in my memory like a lighthouse for a lost sailor. Update: After reading some comments, I thought it appropriate to mention the pharmacist was a lady, who to fill and concoct prescriptions would have had to be university educated and licensed by state boards.

[@jaymartin3992]

My first job was at an independent drug store. Back before America went off the rails. . . . . We were not perfect and some things needed fixed. But we forgot God, good sense, and the common good, and here we are now.

[@trishhamilton2049]

Where I learned how to count change to purchase an icecream cone in kindergarten we had a field trip to our local Rexall. #memories #daysgoneby

[@jpolar394]

Even added for inflation, Rexall drug stores were much less expensive than today's modern corporation chains. Each store was owned and managed by a person you knew. It's like today's mom and pop stores if there's still any around unfortunately. There was a Rexall drug store in the town where I live , long closed and the owner of the store had a drawing for a brand new bicycle every year around Christmas and no purchase was necessary, just stop by the store and give your name and address.

[@kevinsmith5288]

Enjoy these videos very much!! For me, Rexall is a nostalgic slice of small town America.

[@joelfrombethlehem]

Excellent! You confirmed my guess on the origin of the name, Rexall - a play on the Rx. Thank you very much for this great little production.

[@joelfrombethlehem]

And yes, I do remember when Rexall was far more common.

[@sallygomez8799]

Great memories. Our Rexall had a soda fountain, loved their chocolate sodas🙂

[@berylwhite2983]

My grandmother work from 1939 to 1958 I'm pretty sure. She works there during World War II. She said this was the best job she ever had lol but this the only job she had

[@ES-mc3cc]

Better times in America, before everything went down the tubes.

[@aronc24]

Unless you’re not white, straight or a man. 🤔

[@peggypolo3643]

You would have different perspective of you were African American back then. Not so good

[@amyfisher6380]

In West Los Angeles, where the Beverly Center shopping mall is now, there used to be the Beverly Pony Rides and Beverly Park Kiddieland. Down the street was Smokey Joe’s BBQ cafe, with sawdust on the floor, and across the street was a Rexall Drug.

[@jeffsmith-ze6wb]

These videos are AWESOME as they always are!!

[@WAL_DC-6B]

The Rexall Train was pulled by New York Central, locomotive #2872, an L-2c Mohawk (4-8-2) type, streamlined steam locomotive. In 1936, it took a 12 car, traveling exhibit and convention headquarters train, painted in the Rexall colors of blue and white, on a 29,000 mile tour of the U.S. and Canada for the benefit of 10,000 Rexall druggists and 20,000 sales people.

[@tracyisbest]

Thank you, Sheldon.

[@WAL_DC-6B]

@@tracyisbest It's Poindexter.

[@cherriaydelotte8327]

@@WAL_DC-6B 🤣🤣🤣Great slap back!!!!!!’🤣🤣😆😆👍😉

[@johnpinckney4979]

There's a restored Rexall as a museum in McGill, NV. And, there are still-operating Rexall's in Vienna, VA and Yerington, NV.

[@moocowdad]

love these videos you do simple no nonsense a bit of relaxing music..and to the point thank you

[@pamelaoneill9722]

I grew up in the 1950's. I never heard the store called (phonetically) "Rex-el". Everyone I knew pronounced it "Rex-all". Loved that store! This video brought back a flood of memories.

[@Shawn666Hellion]

Remember these places a lot Now you need to do on True Value hardware stores

[@farpointgamingdirect]

The opening of the Phil Harris and Alice Faye Show: "Good HEALTH to all, from REXALL!"

[@elwin38]

Been waiting for this story...we had Rexall's all over Memphis. I would buy candy from my neighborhood Rexall on the way home from school. When i was 12(1980), I got caught trying to steal some sweet tarts candy(the big chewy ones). It was a lot of people in the store and a long line but the cashier was watching me the whole time. Man, when she told me to stop stealing and get out, i hauled ass. Never stole candy from another store again.✌🏾✊🏾

[@belagracie]

The Rexall in my little home town of Lexington, Tennessee (Stewart’s Rexall) just closed last year. The still-functioning neon sign still adorns our court square. And they were serving the very best limeades on the planet until the day they closed.

[@gerardkowalski7683]

Always wondered about the name Rexall. Larry Liggett must have been one hell of a salesman to persuade 40 drugstore owners to invest 4 grand into his idea .

[@dwightpowell6673]

The Jews support one another.

[@monaural2.988]

When a lot of these places on this channel were running, you could have a modest job and have a place to live, transportation and money for groceries. Corporations and Wall Street took it away, NOT people from other countries. It was too much greed in the hands of too few.

[@peacefuldaizy5717]

Corporations rule the world.

[@uslines]

We had a Rexall in my small hometown. My dad would use their tube tester to check our radio tubes. I remember the Phill Harris, Alice Faye radio program, Sunday night radio right after Jack Benny. Rexall was the sponsor of the Harris-Faye program. Wonderful memories.

[@theblacksheep5226]

Remember riding thru Midwest and South as a kid and seeing hundreds of those blue and orange Rexall signs in every town.

[@flounder31]

College Pharmacy in Carthage MO. I still can remember the smell of that place, the tiny white hex-tiled floor, and that my mom knew the pharmacist on a first-name basis. Walmart was still a crappy little store on the edge of town.

[@joshmichael1704]

I love these videos I've learned a lot man things were simple than unlike now. I've seen rexall products sold at dollar general store at one point .

[@__hjg__2123]

that lunch counter at 3:09 how fantastic!

[@scrumsey]

We still have a Rexall in the Historic town of Marshall, MI

[@jons.6216]

Interesting coincidence that just yesterday I was taking pictures of the classic old "Reliable Rexall" signs at the location on 9th Avenue and Irving in San Francisco! The one closest to me in San Jose, CA was Key Rexall and just like the Woolworth's a few doors down from it, the store also smelled like month ice and had cards and goofy gifts like those little "I love you THIS much" statuettes!

[@jeffreyalanwong]

That used to be Sam Ching’s store before he sold the store to two overseas investors. It used to be one of the few stores in SF that did compounding.

[@onlythewise1]

was one of these in uptown whitter ca. ,as a kid loved stopping there

[@roselyncampisi822]

I remember recall drugstore. It was on the corner of my grandma street. She used to get her meds there and I got penny candy! Lol! Those were the days!

[@comfeefort]

My Grandmother (born 1918) Would talk about Her Mother going to a Drugs Store fountain, to get a Coca-Cola when She had a Headache.

[@mikefitchNYC1971]

Awesome video

[@geoben1810]

Yeah, life was less complicated, it was a whole different time. Memories...... 🤔

[@tarabooartarmy3654]

I miss our (Rexall) Dunaway Drugs store SO MUCH! That was a HUGE part of my childhood. They had so much amazing stuff for kids like me. Magazines, jewelry, crayons, markers, paper, books. I practically lived there as a kid. RIP Dunaway. 😢

[@johnskipper7060]

Love this channel.

[@gregsells8549]

The Rexall Train also served as a moving convention for Rexall store owners, in lieu of holding a convention in one place.

[@stvitalkid7981]

My grandparents lived in an apartment above the Rexall on the Main Street of La Feria, Texas in the winter of 72-73. My parents and my sister and I drove down (from Winnipeg) to visit them in early February of 1973. We stayed with them in that apartment above the drug store. The building is still there according to Streetview, but it’s not Rexall anymore.

[@onlythewise1]

back when family owned business now corporations total heart less

[@MrMenefrego1]

And they are doing everything in their power to destroy the few Mom & Pop stores that still remain in the 21st century. Truly despicable!

[@debrahubbard763]

Not always through. We have a small independent drug store in my town of Granite Falls, NC. I don't think it was ever Rexall. Not only is it more expensive, the pharmacist is a mean, old grump.

[@kathywollam32]

Now, owned by China !!!. A lot of pharmacy’s are !!!!

[@onlythewise1]

@@kathywollam32 owned by half all ya need is 52% control it

[@mgmchicago]

We had a Rexall drugstore in my southern Illinois hometown - population 7000 - in the 1950/60s. They had a soda fountain and we kids would go there with our quarters to buy a "green river" or a "graveyard" soda. However, we pronounced it Rex-ALL (not REX-el.)

[@paulausherman727]

Some of the finest days this country Has ever known IM so glad I got to experience it So sad it's all but gone This country is going straight to hell

[@maxbrown8044]

As a young person that is not particularly heartening to hear. I think it will be interesting to see how things go, regardless of whether they truly go to hell or not. All we can do really is attempt to add a bit of light in our own lives and communities. No single person is going to "save" the country.

[@dwightpowell6673]

@@maxbrown8044 Mighty Mouse will save the day.

[@bostongirlsandy]

I'm planning to move to a better country.

[@paulausherman727]

@@bostongirlsandy Good luck on that pal

[@gregggoss2210]

That last photo looks like it may have been from Camden N.J. Dollar General still carries the Rexall brand of medications.

[@toddmo1]

The picture of Lloyd's Rexall was my hometown in Charlottesville Virginia. I used to go there and buy my Corgi cars when I was a kid. It always had a pleasant smell inside the store...as funny as that sounds.

[@samanthab1923]

I feel like some of the signage was still around in the '80's. I think there was one on Main St. in New Hope PA. Funny thing is Love Saves the Day is in that building now. Owned by the same couple that had the store in the movie Desperately Seeking Susan. The other one that stands out was in Manasquan NJ.

[@maryschneider2759]

I have a picture of Santa and I in a sleigh 1950 at Rexall in Colton CA.

[@michaelorenstein9165]

I don't recall Rexall having a large presence in the DC-metro area in the '50s & '60s. In fact, the only one I can recall was in Vienna, VA, and it had a lunch counter (I think primarily for ice cream) into the early 2000s.

[@ShadeofJeremy]

One Rexall chain was bought out by Dollar General and the name was kept as a store brand for health products we still use.

[@dieselbronco9247]

So many of these places on this channel were gone by the time I was in jr high but I remember going in rexall as a teenager and it being much better than anything we have today. Sadly our rexall closed around 2001 and is now a restaurant. What happened to all these places and why does everything have to be a one stop shop these days? I miss going to the grocery store, hardware store, drug store and butcher shop now we all go to Wal Mart which is probably the most miserable place to have to go.

[@k.h.4698]

TheTWO things I remember and miss the most are the lunch counter, and the mix of odors you got as you entered the store. It was a kind of perfumed sweet or alcohol smell, and mixed with whatever was being cooked at the lunch counter. CVS and Woolworths had that also, but it’s Rexall that I miss, along with the 1-cent sales. Shall I also mention the Whitman Sampler end-cap readily in your view?

[@dwightpowell6673]

Where Black people allowed to sit at the Rexall lunch counter?

[@k.h.4698]

@@dwightpowell6673 They were where I lived.

[@johnzeszut3170]

I remember when the 8th Wonder of the World opened up - the Roseland Plaza. The big draw was the Rexall Drug store which was loaded with all sorts of good things. The store featured a television tube tester which might halt a visit from the t.v. repair man who always had to take the picture tube into the shop anyway.

[@pamelamays4186]

I went to the Rexall Drug Store in downtown San Diego with my Mom when I was very young. Ironically, that location was taken over by a Thrifty's Drug Store.

[@philbe3095]

Funny that. I was waiting for this one. Born in '70 and remember my home town Rexall. Lost times... To end on a high note, there is an operating Rexall (original signage) in my current approximate neigborhood. God bless 'em.

[@FoxeemaTV]

yes Rexall has really modern stores here in Canada ..i love your channel..

[@a.j.patron9214]

Had one on main street in my small town as a kid! Use to love to get an ice cream cone or banna split if mom had extra money. Wasn't often, so it was a big treat to sit at that counter!! Mom loved to get a box of Russel Stovers chocalate too!

[@juliemarchese-temple7749]

That was awesome.

[@jerrygish2756]

Dollar General sell health needs under the Rexall name.They do have a web site.

[@U_ever]

@7:01 Lloyd's RexAll Drugs on "The Corner" on Main Street in Charlottesville, VA across from UVA and its still there ! ! !

[@emmetttaylor1739]

"Good health to all from Rexall" I remember because Rexall was the radio sponsor of Gun smoke!

[@joelindsey7889]

We had a Rexall Drug Store in Rural LaFayette, Al. They had a great Soda Fountain and was the only Drug store for Miles.

[@SandraGarcia-ho4lb]

Thank you for this Rexal Video. We have a Store near Hernando Florida that still has a Rexal Drug store sign up . When you walk in the store, it does take you back in time,the way Rexal Drug stores looked like back in the 30's, 40's, 50's.

[@davidratcliff8960]

I enjoy all your videos, but as a pharmacist, this one and the Eckerd video were so interesting to me. Great job and I look forward to the next one!

[@terrieormonde2340]

I bought my first lipstick with my babysitting money at Rexall Drugs, there was a kind cosmetician behind the counter, that helped me select my lipstick.💄 It had not been used or had been opened by anyone and I liked that❣ My mom would occasionally go to Thrifty Drug, but there, lipsticks had been opened and messed with because they did not have a specific sales lady for the cosmetic section. I would just buy a scoop of ice cream for 5 cents. Those were iconic days of being a child❣

[@trinitylancer]

There was a Liggett's near me back in the day, its been gone I'd say all of 35 to even 40 years now. Remember when you'd get a fountain Coke from the snack bar, it would come in one of those white paper cones that they would insert into some kind of metal cup, that era had to be in the mid 60's at the latest.

[@pooddescrewch8718]

My town pharmacy still has its Rexall sign

[@brianmccarthy5557]

Nice to learn the back story on something that just seems to have always been there. Thanks.

[@gerardkowalski7683]

Jack Van Impe ( from the televangelist fame ) his wife is named Rexalla . I wonder if theres a connection. Rexalla is an unusual name for a woman. Just a thought .

[@hcombs0104]

Hearing "sold to private investors" instantly signifies doom.

[@annettemalaski1967]

I too miss Rexall! Eckerds bit the dust!

[@lizzapaolia959]

Fantastic 😁

[@jima9356]

Wow, how times have changed. I do remember the Rexall drug store being downtown at the corner of a main street and busy side street with parking alongside the store.

[@gary36535]

They are a Rexall drug store in Foley Al.

[@jovanweismiller7114]

Rexall was one of three drugstores on the main street of my home town. There is still a Rexall sign on a pharmacy in Crete, NE, but it is no longer a Rexall store.

[@deborahdesanto2313]

I think their so much better than CVS, and WALGREENS.

[@tigre7739]

I remember we had a Liggett's here in the City that I live in and grew up in, here in Central Florida. It really still has much of a small town look and feel to it . As a child in the early seventies we would go to that store to shop and of course to hit the lunch counter also. It was really like a little diner . I don't remember a whole lot about it vividly, but I do remember I enjoyed it. I'm not sure, I'd have to ask my older siblings, but I believe it closed or changed to a different name sometime after that in the 70s.

[@chrisrcarraher8800]

I remember my Dad taking me to the local Rexall to get phosphate sodas. The whole experience of watching them make it was half the fun.

[@jpturner171]

Another great job! Thank you for the education!

[@Artessnow]

I see Rexall drugstores in rural areas. I never knew it was such a significant retailer as most were long gone by the time I became of age

[@markfortin421]

When I see "A group of private investors purchased the company"....I know what's coming next. Why do seemingly successful companies (like Walgreens) sell to 'investors' when they get a song and dance? They should know whats going to happen. I've seen it time and time again, once they get their foot in the door, all hell breaks loose. The auto dealer I worked for (15 yrs.) got bought up by a huge chain, and then fired our owner and cleared out his office! In all, we lost 15 people, including me.