Once up on a time, you could get all of your prescriptions filled and all of your drug store necessities right on Main Street in South Medford. There was Yale Drug Store and Harvard Drug Store. Yale Drug, in its original location, had a Bunsen burner in the window.

“People would tend to use one drug store or the other, not both,” says Nancy Chito. “You’d be in trouble sometimes, if you used both for different reasons. We always used Yale Drug, but you could pay your bills at Harvard Drug and you could buy stamps there,” says Anita D'Antonio.