Gondola. You've learned a term today!

Aside from the ads, the magazines have pictures of modern drug stores. And what crammed-up brightly-lit places they were.

Above: The Stacy Drug store in Torrance, and its forward-thinking approach to marketing: Items, rather than brands, are grouped together.

Muir drug, says the internet, was founded by Boyce Kitredge Muir, who passed the business along to his son. The chain had 24 locations when they sold it to Rite Air in 1984.