came close to practicing medicine, but
we knew where to draw the line. Any
customer who had a bad problem was
urged to see a doctor right away"
Many customers considered their
neighborhood pharmacists to be part of
the family and invited them to wed-
dings and bar mitzvahs. But it wasn't
always easy ro go: "We were open from
9 a.m. to 11 p.m. seven days a week,"
said Wainer. She and her husband,
Mike, operated a typical "mom and
pop" store, Mitchell-Forest Drugs at
East Forest and Metro Street, for 40
years. Mike died in 1994.
All of the stores then had an old-
fashioned soda fountain — a soda or a
sundae cost a dime — and the more
fortunate proprietors had a liquor or a
beer-and-wine license, which added
immensely to the revenues. Being
located within 500 feet of a school pre-
vented a store from getting one of
those licenses.
Independent pharmacies often filled
200 prescriptions daily from a pharma-
ceutical inventory valued at about
$1,000 — compared to 400 "scrips" a
day and a pharmacy inventory worth
about $100,000 in today's average
chain store.
The pharmacist back then had to
stand there and give voice instructions
with each prescription," Wainer point-
ed out. "They didn't have the derailed
computer printout you get today."
Two women who played key roles in
the APA's formative years were Menerta
Morger, a long-time secretary of the
group, and Sarah Smith, the first presi-
dent of the auxiliary, who helped start
the first ad book. She and her husband
operated Smith Drugs in Livonia.
Before arthritis sufferers had Motrin
and heart patients had Inderal, almost
everything prescribed by a physician
was in the aspirin family. "People don't
realize how lucky they are to have the
modern medicines of today," said Spiel-
berg. The long-rime APA members
agree with pharmacy historians that the
big breakthroughs in prescription med-
icine came in the late '20s and early
'30s when Karl Domagk developed sul-
fonamides to fight pneumonia and
Alexander Fleming invented penicillin,
the forerunner of antibiotics in general.
The gradual decline of the indepen-
dent pharmacies — and the APA —
began with the arrival of the large chain
drug stores, starting with the old
national Schettler chain that became
localized as Cunningham's, founded by
Nate Shapero. There also were Liggett,
Kinsel's, Sam's Cur Rate Drugs, then
Super X, Revco, and others.
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