{"id":241,"date":"2008-11-17T00:41:02","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T05:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=241"},"modified":"2008-11-17T00:42:42","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T05:42:42","slug":"campbells-drugstore-forest-drive-1980s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=241","title":{"rendered":"Campbell's Drugs: Forest Drive: 1980s"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Campbell's Drugs<\/i> was the anchor store for the old Forest Lake Shopping Center<\/i> at the corner of Trenholm Road and Forest Drive, across from Trenholm Plaza.<\/p>\n

Originally, Forest Lake Shopping Center was kind of a \"double\" strip mall with Campbell's on both the front (Forest Drive) and back (parking lot and cut-through over Gill's Creek). On the front with Campbell's were a 7-11 (later a Majik Market), a barber shop and a hardware store. (The hardware left early, and was replaced, possibly, with an ABC store). On the back were Dodd's, a fabric store of some sort, a formalwear store and some others that changed from time to time, and never really sparked my imagination.<\/p>\n

Campbell's was an old-school drugstore, not affialiated with a national chain as far as I can recall, and boasted a soda fountain and short-order counter. If you came in the front door, the lunch counter was on your left leaving a corridor of general merchandise on your right which you walked down to get to the perscription area which was in the back of the store. I don't recall much about the store's stock aside from the usual Whitman's samplers and greeting cards, but it did have a paperback spinner rack from which I once talked my mother into buying me an Arthur C. Clarke short story collection. I do<\/i> recall that there wasn't much about the stock to strike a kid's interest, so waiting to have a prescription filled could be kind of boring. Past the pharmacy area was a back door, with a sidewalk going down the hill to the back side of the shopping center.<\/p>\n

Because of its location fairly near to our house, and on the way home from Dr. Harvin's Office<\/a>, Campbell's was where we got all our perscriptions filled. Before Jack Rabbit<\/i> set up in Trenholm Plaza, it was usually where we dropped our film off as well. They didn't have processing facilities, but would send your film off to a regional lab and you could pick it up a week or two later (color took longer, I think). I recall one time that we were dropping off film, and I didn't feel like going inside with my mother and sister while they took care of that and picked up a few things. Since it wasn't considered child abuse at the time, my mother let me stay in the car with my book and our dog. I apparently had strict instructions to roll the windows mostly up if I got out of the car, but in the event when I got bored and went inside, I couldn't be bothered and our dog (a sweet tempered Cocker Spaniel) took the opportunity to jump out of the window and make a run for the Cooper Branch. Since this involved crossing Trenholm, and since Trenholm was even then a pretty busy road, and since my mother had to go racing after her, I was in very bad graces for a while thereafter (she was fine though!)<\/p>\n

Sometime, I think in the early 80s, Forest Lake Shoping Center was \"remodeled\", which in this instance meant tearing down the bulk of the original main strip. The auxiliary strip with the old Colonial store (now Coplon's), Sakura and Forest Lake TV<\/a> remained, but Campbell's and all of the other main strip stores were torn down to make way for a new First Citizen's<\/i> bank and Talbot's<\/i>. I'm sure that given the trends in the pharmacy industry, Campbell's<\/i> would probably have to have sold out to a chain by now as Cedar Terrace Pharmacy<\/a>, The Big T<\/a> and Parkland Pharmacy<\/i> did. Still, I was sad to see it go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Campbell's Drugs was the anchor store for the old Forest Lake Shopping Center at the corner of Trenholm Road and Forest Drive, across from Trenholm Plaza. Originally, Forest Lake Shopping Center was kind of a \"double\" strip mall with Campbell's on both the front (Forest Drive) and back (parking lot and cut-through over Gill's Creek). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5,9,4],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-historic","tag-landmark","tag-stores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}