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Newhall, California
Back row, from left: Earl Vanasen (Hart Class of 1952), Chris Elam, Ross Williams (Hart Class of 1952); front row, from left: Margie Ludlow, Jeannie Driscoll, Lillie Wright, Doug Stewert; at right: Nancy Smith; inside Ralph Williams' Newhall Pharmacy (Rexall Drug) at the southwest corner of Spruce (now Main) and Market streets in 1952. The two-story brick building was erected as a hotel in 1914 by grocer Albert C. Swall; even at that time, the structure sported a pharmacy at the corner as well as a meat market next door as seen here. The bricks came tumbling down in the earthquake of Feb. 9, 1971; the building was retrofitted and refinished in stucco.
According to property owner Susan Davy (1-26-2017), daughter of Newhall pharmacist Ralph Williams, the pharmacy building was completely torn down after the earthquake, the soil was compacted, and the structure was "rebuilt from scratch." "The months prior — about 1 year — to the earthquake, my husband and I spent remodeling the pharmacy building and all the store fronts beginning with 24263-65-67-69-71-73-75 San Fernando Road." "The night before the earthquake, we took some of the subcontractors out to Tip's to celebrate the finish of the pharmacy remodeling. You can imagine how everyone felt the morning of February 9, 1971."
BH5202: 9600 dpi jpeg from smaller jpeg courtesy of Butch Hampton. |
• Swall Family
1915 Calendar
1920
Medicine Bottle 1920s-30s
Jones Family Proprietors 1920s-60s
Snow 1931
July 1948
Snow 1949
~1952 x2
Pharmacy (Int/Ext) 1952 x3
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