People's Pharmacy


Company Names, addresses, dates:
   People's Pharmacy, 1544 W. Main Street, Waynesboro VA (ca.1959-ca.1996) 1,2

Notes:
 This was an independent pharmacy, not connected with the chain drugstore called Peoples.3

I don't know when the store started and ended, but the earliest newspaper mention I could find was from 19591, and the latest one was from 19962.

William Cephas "Bill" Combs (1924-2011)4 was the owner of the pharmacy from 1960-1994. He got his pharmacy degree from MVC in 1954. 5


Bottles:
peoples_01 This is a clear 3.3" machine-made screw-top bottle with a label:
label: PARAGORIC / ... / The People's Pharmacy, Inc. / "Professionally Correct" / 1544 W. Main St., Ph. WH 3-8426, Waynesboro, Va.


1 Richmond Times-Dispatch, 3-Aug-1956, p.33 (Pharmacist wanted ad)
2 Richmond Times-Dispatch, 31-Mar-1997, p.7 (ad mentioning People's Pharmacy in Waynesboro)
3 Richmond Times-Dispatch, 16-Apr-1965, p.35 (Pharmacist wanted ad)
4 Find-a-grave entry for William Cephas Combs
5 The News Virginian, 8-Apr-2011 (obituary for William Combs)


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