tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30847017.post3728755630917106529..comments2024-03-12T22:33:42.426-04:00Comments on View from a Hearse: Tell Them Your Undertaker Sent YouBruce Goddardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04493226984700202009noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30847017.post-73144011354836443922007-08-25T13:50:00.000-04:002007-08-25T13:50:00.000-04:00Mr Goddard:The small independent drugstore is bein...Mr Goddard:<BR/>The small independent drugstore is being hit hard by the cost of medicines and health care. Even with drug plans there are price shoppers. Some of the drug chains have fabulous prices on food (Walgreen's is said to have a good deal on fruit cups.)<BR/><BR/>But nothing will completely replace a well-trained and experienced druggist providing good customer service.<BR/><BR/>But I noticed the glass case with the old meds in it. Which reminds me; you ought to go to the old drugstore near the city gates of St. Augustine's old section. They have medicine bottles dating from the Sixties on back. Did you know that Lysol had coal tar in it? There was a roach control product on display with a 1000.00 guarantee . <BR/><BR/>The drugstore had general merchandise displayed when I first went there 18 years ago. It may have been a drugstore-and-everything else store.<BR/><BR/>Today part of the space has been modernized as an internet cafe and souvenir store.KAThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02133425817933187901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30847017.post-58705931572651076402007-08-25T08:55:00.000-04:002007-08-25T08:55:00.000-04:00Bruce,Thank you so much for this blog. DJ not onl...Bruce,<BR/><BR/>Thank you so much for this blog. DJ not only can bake the best cake I've ever eaten but is one of the finest, sweetest, caring, Christian women I know--she just gives, gives, & gives. Gary Sheffield is a great person even though he is an Auburn fan!! There are still lots of things wonderful about Fort Valley and you wrote about three of them--DJ, Gary & Avera Drugs. Thanks for shedding a positive light on the "Valley". SueAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30847017.post-14962413905940195822007-08-22T18:39:00.000-04:002007-08-22T18:39:00.000-04:00Hi Bruce,Loved you blog today. I had the pleasure ...Hi Bruce,<BR/>Loved you blog today. I had the pleasure of hearing you at Jane Yancey's Girls of '68 luncheon and eating D.J.'s cakes. Notice I said plural!! Her cakes have long been a staple at the Doles' family Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. I am a cake baker but I bow to D.J. and her caramel cake!!<BR/>Tell that brother-in-law, Jimmy, I said hello and that we missed him at the grand reunion!!<BR/>Gwen Estes Hudgins-Gainesville, GAGwen Hudginshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16431181431054852035noreply@blogger.com