Historic Hood River
“Williams Pharmacy”
Notes
Here’s Grace’s selection for out Monday museum artifact:
This clear prescription bottle reads “Williams Pharmacy Hood River, Ore.” A bottle of this size likely would have contained some kind of medicinal syrup, although there is no label, so it is difficult to be certain of what the bottle once contained.
My guess is it was something very thick and sweet, with plenty of alcohol and maybe a touch of opium.
Here’s a view of the store where this bottle was likely purchased. The Williams Pharmacy first opened in 1903 in the “Otten Building” which was built in 1901 (possibly at 4th and Oak). They moved into the Brosius Building when it was constructed on the NW corner of Oak and Second in 1905 and remained open until 1909, when it became Halls Drug Store.
Tags: 1900s, artifact, Brosius Block, drug store, Oak Street, object, pharmacy, Williams Drug Store
Kalley
If that bottle could tell it’s story, what a story it would be! I love old bottles.
L. E.
I wonder if Portland had a bottle making plant? I was reading about the bottles of Klickitat Soda Pop. The design of the Indian face on the bottle was impressive..
Some place was able to make specially designed glass bottles.