Schwab's Pharmacy

Coordinates: 34°05′53″N 118°21′54″W / 34.098°N 118.365°W / 34.098; -118.365
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Schwab's Pharmacy
Company typePrivate
IndustryPharmacy
Founded1932 (1932)
Founders
  • Bernard Schwab
  • Leon Schwab
  • Jack Schwab
  • Martin Schwab
  • Lena Schwab
  • Yetta Schwab
Defunct1983 (1983)
Headquarters8024 Sunset Boulevard
Hollywood, California, U.S.
Schwab's menu from 1955

Schwab's Pharmacy was a

movie actors and movie industry dealmakers from the 1930s through the 1950s.[1]

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.

Academy Award in print, made Schwab's famous in the 1930s. He used the drugstore as his office and called his column in Photoplay, the premier movie magazine in the United States at the time, "From a Stool at Schwab's."[4]

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

Hollywood. Jack Castello's wife, Henrietta is shown to work at the store, alongside coworker Erwin Kaye.[10]

References

  1. .
  2. LAist. Archived from the original
    on 25 March 2009.
  3. ^ "Schwab's, Hollywood Drugstore, Shut". The New York Times. United Press International. 25 October 1983.
  4. ^ "Daughter of Famed Hollywood Columnist Sidney Skolsky Passes". The Marilyn Monroe Collection. 2 March 2010.
  5. ^ Ponder, Jon (4 June 2013). "Schwab's Drug Store: Where Lana Turner Was Not Discovered". Playground to the Stars.
  6. ^ Wilkerson, W.R. III (1 July 1995). "Writing the End to a True-to-Life Cinderella Story". Los Angeles Times.
  7. ^ "Schwab's Pharmacy / Universal Studios Florida™". Retrieved 2018-08-07.
  8. ^ "ユニバーサル・スタジオ・ジャパン|USJ". Universal Studios Japan (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-11-16.
  9. ^ Meares, Hadley (December 4, 2013). "Schwab's Pharmacy: The Hollywood Hopeful Hangout". PBS SoCal. Retrieved February 13, 2024.
  10. ^ 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.

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