Schley County GaArchives Photo Place.....Bridges & Dixon Drug Store 1915 1915
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Ernie Jones http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00032.html#0007882 April 10, 2007, 11:38 am

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I not only get great pleasure from my own memories of growing up in 
Ellaville, I enjoy thinking about our parents and grandparents and all 
THEIR memories of our little town. Maybe it's just that nostalgic 
cognitive process that touches all of us as we age.

I recently acquired a couple of rare early Ellaville photographs that 
enhanced that process. Both photos are from the period 1900-1915.

The latest photo I've posted on our website shows the interior of what 
we all later knew as Wilson's Drug Store. Dr. Wilson bought the store 
on March 5, 1916. Jerry Battle has a photo of the front portion of that 
store from the 1960s on his website...taken from behind the soda 
fountain. You can see that one by clicking here: 
http://www.ellavillega.com/RECOLLECT/IMAGES/drane_vickie_marianne.jpg

A year or so ago, I posted a photo in the "Miscellaneous Album" showing 
the interior of that store from the 1930s....showing group member Olivia 
King Mallichek's father, Ed King as soda jerk......If you sign in at our 
web site you can see that one here: 
http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/EllavilleMemories/photos/view/2614?b=8&m=f&o=0

The latest and most rare (pre-1915), shows the interior before Dr. 
Wilson's ownership, entitled "Interior Bridges & Dixon's, Druggists, 
Ellaville, Ga." It shows different and wonderful early twin mirrors 
behind the soda fountain, and three brass spitton/cuspidors ! on the 
floor. 

The subject of this message has a more personal meaning for me than just 
the words and the picture. My mama once told me that she first met my 
daddy on the sidewalk in front of that store ....he was eating an ice 
cream cone that he'd just bought there..........not long after the big 
war...in '45.

Ernie Jones


Additional Comments:
I also have a family connection to this drug store.  My 1st cousin, twice 
removed, Anthony J. Hill, sttod in front of this drug store and complained of 
a severe headache on Nov. 19, 1913.  He then had a stroke and died two hours 
later.

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