Inspiration for the Heemsoth’s Rexall Drug Store of New Zebedee, Michigan
132 West Michigan Avenue
Hemmingsen's Rexall Drug Store started in 1844 at 230 West Michigan Avenue by Chet Hemmingsen and moved to 132 West Michigan Avenue in the 1930s; it is the oldest business in consecutive years in Marshall [Marshall, Carver, 61]. We’re told that in years gone by that the Hemmingsen store had a soda fountain and lunch counter.
The building's interior has been remodeled over the years, with the front section (facing Michigan Avenue) housing the drug store and a travel agency (among other shops); the back part of the building (facing Jefferson Street) was for many years the location of Ann LaPietra's book store, the kids' place, which closed in 2006 after 20 years of operation.
Rexall was the name of a chain of North American drugstores that began in the early 1940s and would go on to become the largest drug store chain in the United States a decade later.
...Lewis was sitting at the counter in Heemsoth’s Drug Store. He had just had two hot dogs and two large cherry cokes for lunch. Now he was leafing through a Captain Marvel comic book [The Figure in the Shadows, 43].
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