Old-time Pharmacy Size:16" x 20" Times photographer Carl T

Times photographer Carl T

who had been eating there for 25 years

As the losses mounted

and worst of all

the local men had to climb atop the 19-foot-high block of gritstone to prove their manliness and fitness for marriage

Old-time Pharmacy Size:16" x 20" Times photographer Carl TEarly drug stores offered much more than just bottles of pills, as seen here at the Collins Pharmacy in Islip, N. Y., circa 1915. You could count on a soda fountain, a barrel of root beer, glass display cases and tables and chairs. The local pharmacists made all medications on the spot for ailing customers, who probably needed a tall glass of soda to wash down the strong medicine. Soda fountains began to decline after Prohibition was repealed in the