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Selected Photos of the May Drug Company. Oakland, CA |
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| May Drug Store at the corner of Seminary Avenue and 5859 Foothill Blvd. Roads were tar coated dirt. This was one of the first buildings in East Oakland. |
Interior of the May Drug before my father's father bought it in 1918. Headline on news paper reads 'Ruling In "Art War" Today.' |
Interior of store, approx. date 1952. Note clock time of 9:30 PM. My father took this picture after the store was closed. |
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'49er Day Centennial celebration during the Summer of 1949. All the stores in the Seminary Merchant's Association were painted to look like old frontier store fronts. Workers were repairing a broken water pipe. Jokes abounded about digging for gold. |
Father and Son. The matching chrome plated cap pistols and leather holsters were a prized possession. I loved those boots but they were hell on my toes. I recall thinking my father looked really cool with his beard. |
Store at night approx. date 1952. My father's father had the exterior or the store redone in the early 30's in the Art Deco Style. The exterior was a combination of tile and royal blue fired enamel metal panels – very stylish at the time. |
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Same night 1952, looking West toward the front of the atore. |
Well stocked, proper and no shortage of hot water bottles. |
After the remodel in the Summer of 1953 |
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| Same building in 2001 |
Area is depressed, ripe for “redevelopment.” |
“There is no there there” ... as of 2014 |
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