Chestnut Street cont

Quicks Donuts was on Highway 6 out by the Zenith TV place part of the time and was on Chestnut part of the time. They had excellent cake donuts and very cold milk. I seem to recall little malts too.

On down the street was Rex Pharmacy, run by Rex Moorman and his son Kenny. They were good to our family and viceversa. Rex's didn't just carry drugs - no sir! They had a cornucopia of goods - from typing paper to calculators, banks to gifts items like wallets and perfume. When Laurie Reinertson and I were in around 6th grade we discovered they had Playboy magazines, and even though were were not destined to be lesbians we were curious about the female body.

The magazine rack was near the back door of the large store. And near the bathroom we'd frequent while downtown shopping. So several times we snagged the Playboy and checked out the girly pics. I know - decadent!

Next door was Anthony's - formerly known as Bullock's Department Store. Anthony's was a nice, full range store - shopping on 3 floors. Dad and my aunts Marty and Jean owned the building until 1o years ago and we'd go through the display window (cuz my former BF Mike McCauley was the manager of the store) through a secret doorway into the upstairs, which had been covered over by a facade. There was lots of old stuff up there (prolly still is there) like calendars, and dental molds from the nazi torturer (I'm mean dentist) who practiced there.

Across the corner was Dick Bell Insurance - where Tom Clithero and Virginia Deardorff both worked. Cook & Caslow Pharmacy was directly north (yep there were lots of small pharmacies back then) complete with a lunch counter. Aunt Jean took me for my first Green River there! You could get a phosphate! At the pharmacy you could get cinnamon oil from the pharmacist to make your own cinnamon toothpicks.