While visiting my sister in Guthrie, Oklahoma, she brought me to the Oklahoma Frontier Drug Store Museum. Located on one of the many side streets in the historic downtown district, we entered through the ancient doorway. I thought it was an old bar with dark wood counters on both sides and bottles in the cabinets mounted on the walls. At closer look the bottles looked like old medicine tinctures, solutions, and remedies from the days of snake oil salesmen. However, this was a legitimate drug store for a respectable community. In fact, we walked into a drug store museum. It isn’t a museum with exhibits and a short film, this is a museum that in every aspect resembles an actual drug store that would be in operation a hundred plus years ago. It would be a well stocked drug store. I guess the space to be 30 feet wide by 70 feet long.

We find that druggist often mixed the medicine in house. There was office equipment including the oldest typewriter I’ve ever seen. the keys rose up above the machine and struck in a downward fashion. An ink well and wheelchair also caught my eye. Everything in the museum is old including the telephone, radio, clock, and Mortar and Pestel used for crushing meds.

I notice a spinning rack on the counter and find more than a couple dozen linen postcards. I select all the linen cards plus a couple of interesting ones. I lay them on the counter and I ask the attendant if she has the authority to make a bargain deal. She looks at the cards and says, oh I figure $10 or $15. I grabbed a couple more cards and offered $17. It turns out she could not process the credit card. So I promised to mail a check. True to my promise, I sent a check when I got home. today I received a postcard from the museum thanking me.