Ricketts Drug Store


Company Names, addresses, dates:
  Ricketts Drug Store , Orange VA

Notes:
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Bottles:

ricketts_01 (enlarge) These are clear bottles that are embossed the same except for the number of ounces on the back. Left one is 6.7" (8 oz) and the right one is 4.3" (2 oz). They are embossed:
vertical: Ricketts / DRUG STORE / ORANGE, VA
backside: 2 (or 8) OZ


Other stuff:
ricketts_03 (enlarge) This is a post card that says:
top left: Ricketts' Building. ORANGE, Va.
bottom left: PUBL. BY / L.S.RICKETTS / DRUGGIST
I assume this is the building that housed Rickett's drug store.
ricketts_02 (enlarge) This is a photo (taken 2-May-2009) of what I beleive to be the same building in the postcard above. A conversation with the current owner of the antique store it houses confirmed that the building used to be a drug store.
ricketts_04 (enlarge) On the other hand...
This is a photo (taken Nov 2010) of 112 E Main Street. According to the walking tour of downtown Orange1, this building was once Ricketts Drug store, and the building that is depicted above was once the Grymes Drug store. I suspect that the building depicted above must have housed both drug stores but at different times.



1 Brochure: "A Walking Tour of the Downtown Orange Commercial Historic District", published by the Orange Downtown Alliance




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This page last updated on November 15, 2010.