From about 1880 until shortly before his death in 1933,
Lewis A. Biehl operated a drugstore at the northwest corner of Hancock and East
Monroe Streets. In the 1920s, an ice cream parlor was in the drugstore, making
it convenient for customers to have a soda while they waited for their
prescriptions to be filled. The early customers of Mr. Biehl arrived on foot,
or by horse and buggy. From the 1890s to the 1930s, they could visit his drug
store via the streetcar. By 1920 a Pennzoil service station was
located kitty-corner to the Biehl store, at the southeast corner of Hancock and
East Monroe Streets.
The Biehl drugstore was included in the listing of Sandusky
neighborhood drugstores in this advertisement from the September 23, 1928 issue
of the Sandusky Register.
Just as in the case of grocery stores,
there were drugstores in most Sandusky neighborhoods in the late 1800s and
early 1900s, before it was the norm for most families to own an automobile. The
ad from 1928 suggested that if a person had a cold, a quick visit to the
neighborhood druggist could help prevent pneumonia. The Sandusky Star Journal of July 28, 1939 reported that Harry J.
Fisher would soon be having the grand opening of his drugstore at the building
formerly occupied by the Lewis A. Biehl drugstore. Mr. Fisher had remodeled the building, and moved the entrance
to the Hancock Street side of the building. (The Fisher drugstore had previously
been on West Washington Street.) All vistors to the newly remodeled Fisher Drug
store received a souvenir. Below is a picture of the Fisher Drug store in 1955.
By 1957, Earl McGookey was the
proprietor of the Fisher Drug Store. Eventually the drugstore became known as
the Fisher-Buderer Drug Company. Today, the company is the Buderer Drug Company, a compounding pharmacy with locations in
Sandusky, Avon and Perryburg. At GoogleMaps, you can see a recent picture of the intersection of Hancock and East
Monroe Street.
1 comment:
Fisher Drug was owned by Earl McGookey Jr. His father, my great uncle Earl Sr. worked for Erie County keeping the roads paved and cleared.
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