View the Best Schwab’s Pharmacy Photos From Hollywoodphotographs.com

The very best collection of Schwab’s Pharmacy photos can be found on the hollywoodphotographs.com web site.  The collection was started, by Bruce Torrence in 1970, and today there are over 12,000 photographs of which there are more than 7,000 images on the web site.  Many of these wonderful photos of Schwab’s Pharmacy show popular celebrities eating at the lunch counter, chatting with other people, or columnist Sidney Skolsky interviewing people.  Celebrities in these photos include such stars as ...

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Photographs of the Famous Schwab’s Pharmacy are quite rare but you can see scores of them at hollywoodphotographs.com.

Schwab's Pharmacy opened at 8024 Sunset Boulevard in 1932, and was run by brothers Bernard, Leon, Jack and Martin Schwab. It was a typical drugstore of its time--goods and sundries available for purchase, prescriptions filled, and a soda fountain with counter service

What made Schwab's unlike other drug stores was the fact that it became a gathering place for actors. Not just celebrities, mind you--although they were among the clientele but mostly working, or hoping-to-be-working,...