Drug Stores/Pharmacies (Continued)
Memories of Iglers
“The first telephone (in Glendale) was outside, or maybe; inside of his drug store. “
“Aunt Katie made the ice cream from my grandmother’s recipe for vanilla ice-cream which she said ‘young Herman’ could use when he started his ice cream business. Cows don’t even give the kind of cream necessary to make that kind of ice cream anymore”
“Aunt Katie also made hand lotion with glycerine and rosewater and something pale green, scented with violet and it stung! Every year Igler’s had a one cent sale and my mother used to load up on hand lotion”
“I wish that I could believe that heaven were to smell the way Igler’s did. The combination of the soda fountain, plus luscious fine cigars and tobacco, Coty’s, Richard Hudnuts Violet Sec, and the cleanliness was truly heavenly.”
“There was a ‘victrola’ windup in the front window with records to play or sell. Only the ‘big girls’ and their beaux came from all over to Igler’s – very exciting. The victrola was played but never a nasty word or unpleasant action. Mr. Igler would have had them out in one second – in fact I saw him usher out one or two.”
“Tommy Allen’s father, Dr. Allen, I loved next best to my father and when my father died when I was 10, I loved him best of all.”
“Chilton was dragged into the Army (World War I)…he caught the most dreadful flu which he gave to me. Since I had just become pregnant, Dr. Allen wasn’t happy about it. He had Andrew (employee of Igler’s) bring me prescriptions and lime ice.”
(Taken from a letter written by Mrs. Chilton Thomson in 1995. Her father was Maynard French)
“All Whitesides purchases were marked on a special pad in the cash register and once a month my mother came in and paid the bill. Miss Francis (cousin Francis to me) always indulged me and did not always write the candy on the pad! As I got older I wrote on the pad myself and my mother impressed on Lawson and me that it was important for us to be honest, because Uncle Fee (Herman Igler’s son) only charged us cost for everything we had. You see the Lotspeich/Hilidale Bus picked up and dropped off most all the Glendale Students at the Drug Store and then we walked home. We always got our after school treats at the soda fountain on the way home!”
Betsy Whitesides, grandaughter of Herman Igler, 2004
