Schwab's Pharmacy
Company type | Private |
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Industry | Pharmacy |
Founded | 1932 |
Founders |
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Defunct | 1983 |
Headquarters | 8024 Sunset Boulevard Hollywood, California, U.S. |
Schwab's Pharmacy was a
History
Opened in 1932 by the Schwab brothers, Schwab's Pharmacy in Hollywood became the most famous and longest-operating outlet of their small retail chain.[2] Like many drug stores in the United States during the mid-twentieth century, Schwab's sold medicines and had a counter serving ice cream dishes and light meals.
Schwab's closed in October 1983.[3] Five years later, on October 6, 1988, the building was demolished to make way for a shopping complex and multiplex theater.
A persistent Hollywood legend has it that actress
Today, there is a replica of the establishment at Universal Studios in Florida[7] and Japan, the latter themed around Super Mario.[8]
In popular media
Schwab's appears in the 1950 film Sunset Boulevard.[9]
Schwab's Pharmacy appears in the
References
- ISBN 0-7679-1635-2.
- LAist. Archived from the originalon 25 March 2009.
- ^ "Schwab's, Hollywood Drugstore, Shut". The New York Times. United Press International. 25 October 1983.
- ^ "Daughter of Famed Hollywood Columnist Sidney Skolsky Passes". The Marilyn Monroe Collection. 2 March 2010.
- ^ Ponder, Jon (4 June 2013). "Schwab's Drug Store: Where Lana Turner Was Not Discovered". Playground to the Stars.
- ^ Wilkerson, W.R. III (1 July 1995). "Writing the End to a True-to-Life Cinderella Story". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ "Schwab's Pharmacy / Universal Studios Florida™". Retrieved 2018-08-07.
- ^ "ユニバーサル・スタジオ・ジャパン|USJ". Universal Studios Japan (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-11-16.
- ^ Meares, Hadley (December 4, 2013). "Schwab's Pharmacy: The Hollywood Hopeful Hangout". PBS SoCal. Retrieved February 13, 2024.
- ^ Malkin, Marc (April 30, 2020). "How 'Hollywood's' Production Team Reimagined 1940s Los Angeles for Ryan Murphy's Netflix Series". Variety. Variety Media, LLC. Retrieved May 3, 2020.
External links
- Media related to Schwab's Pharmacy at Wikimedia Commons