Pharmacist's Area
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Of special interest is the booth-like area at the rear of the soda fountain room, which showcases how a pharmacist would have produced most of the medicines sold in the drugstore around the turn of the twentieth century. This area contains equipment for weighing and measuring, formulating medicines as pills, tablets, powders, and liquids, as well as boxing, bottling, and corking them.
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Hook's Drug Store
Hook's Drug Stores were Indiana fixtures throughout most of the 20th century. Founder John A. Hook opened his first Indianapolis store in 1900 in a now-demolished building at 1101 S. East Street in what is now the Fountain Square neighborhood.…