How It Ended

Grady Miller -
UNITED STATES—An offer from another chain store came for the drug store, and my parents welcomed it. Capitulating to one of the chains was...
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Endgame

Grady Miller -
UNITED STATES—In one way the earthquake had been a blessing in disguise for the drug store. People were actually happier with the new little...
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After The Quake

Grady Miller -
UNITED STATES—Terrible rains came. Unhoused people in tents in the high school field got drenched. At my parents’ house they worked in the rain...
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Whole Lotta Shakin

Grady Miller -
UNITED STATES—Among the carryovers from the Meyer era of Johnson Drug was Tammy the bookkeeper. She wore a dark sweater and skirt and was...
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Crimes

Grady Miller -
UNITED STATES—A lot of the drug store operation and staff was inherited from Mr. Meyer when Johnson Drug changed hands, in 1962. That inheritance...
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Relief

Grady Miller -
UNITED STATES—There was always a second banana at the drug store—the relief pharmacist. Johnson Drug wasn’t a one man show. The first relief pharmacist...
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Bonzoid

Grady Miller -
UNITED STATES—Dad couldn’t cut the mustard in pre-med. The chemistry was too much for him, so he settled for pharmacy, and perhaps in his...
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Chained

Grady Miller -
UNITED STATES—The advent of the chain store, Long’s, just a block from his Main and East Lake corner, caused my dad a great deal...
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Drug-Store-Go-Round

Grady Miller -
UNITED STATES—The drug store was a place where the community manifest itself. People could make any old comment about the weather and it would...
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Remembering Dad

Grady Miller -
UNITED STATES—Whenever we were on a trip my dad would get anxious and phone the drug store. This seemed a gross interruption of our...
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