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This is a clear, 3.3" machine-made bottle with a label that says: label: GLYCERIN / ... / GAUNT'S / PRESCRIPTIONS / DIAL 4104 / Cor. Main and Valley Avenue Winchester, VA. |
Gaunt's Drug Store
Company Names, addresses, dates:
Miller & Gaunt, Main & Valley Avenue, Winchester VA (ca.1944) 1
Gaunt's, Main & Valley Avenue, Winchester VA (1944-ca.2014) 2,3
Notes:
Hunter Marshall Gaunt Sr (1906-1999)4 was a druggist in Winchester.
In the 1930s and early 1940s he was working as a pharmacist for
Boyd & Rhodes5 and Rhodes6 drug stores.
The earliest reference I could find of him as a drug store owner was a 14-Feb-1944
mention of the "Miller & Gaunt Drug Store"5, so he apparently partnered
with someone named Miller. But a week later on 21-Feb-1944, there was a mention of
"Gaunt's Drug Store"6, so the partnership seemed to have ended around
that time.
In 1958,
Harold Frederick Madagan Jr.(1939-2023)3 started working at
Gaunt's Drug store at age 18. Madigan later bought the store in 1973, and owned
it until about 2014. When Madigan was a child,
Patsy Cline
poured him cokes from the soda fountain in Gaunt's Drug store. Patsy Cline
worked at Gaunt's drug store in 1950/1951, before she went on to stardom
as a singer/songwriter. 7
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This is a clear, 3.3" machine-made bottle with a label that says: label: GLYCERIN / ... / GAUNT'S / PRESCRIPTIONS / DIAL 4104 / Cor. Main and Valley Avenue Winchester, VA. |
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These photos of Gaunt's Drug Store were taken in May 2010. They show the building from 2 different angles, when it was still in business. |