Park View Pharmacy


Company Names, addresses, dates: 1
      Early Store
  Park View Pharmacy, Glasgow & Pearl Streets, Portsmouth VA (ca.1897-ca.1900) 2,3
      Later Store with the same name
  Park View Pharmacy, 500 N Elm Street, Portsmouth VA (1939-1971) 1,4

Notes:
The bottle below has an address of "GLASGOW & PEARL STS" embossed on it.
That drug store doesn't show up in any of the Portsmouth city directories I have access to,1 but I do see newspaper mentions of it from 18972 to 19003.

Mr. H. H. Denning owned a drugstore there, and in 1896 he sold it to Burwell T. Riddick. 5
But in the 1897 city directory it shows up under Riddick's name, although it does mention that the address was in "Park View", which was a section of Portsmouth.1

The last mention of the Park View Pharmacy at that location that I could find was in 1900.3

About 39 years later, another drugstore with that same name shows up in the city directories. I don't think it was related to the first store in any way other than having the same name and being in the same "Park View" section of town. 1
The last newspaper mention I found for that store as in 1971.4


Bottles:
parkview_01 This is a clear 3.6" bottle embossed:
vertical slug plate: (fancy design) PARK VIEW / PHARMACY / GLASGOW & PEARL STS / PORTSMOUTH, VA
base: *** / A / U.S.A. / PAT DEC 11 94


1 Portsmouth VA city directories, years 1851,72,74-75,80,82-83,85-86,89-90,92,97,1900-05,07-08,10-15,17-20,22,24-5,27,30,36-42,44-47,49,51,53-54,56,58-60
2 Daily Pilot, 03-Feb-1897, p.6 (earliest mention of Park View Pharmace at corner of Pearl and Glassgow Streets)
3 Virginian-Pilot, 08-Apr-1900, p.19 (latest mention of Park View Pharmacy at corner of Pearl and Glassgow Streets)
4 Virginian-Pilot, 28-Sep-1971, p.25 (latest mention of Park View Pharmacy in Portsmouth)
5 Norfolk Landmark, 2-Dec-1896, p.2


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