North End Pharmacy
5001 Huntington Avenue
Newport News, VA
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| Ad from the Daily Press - 04/26/60 | And here is where the North End Pharmacy once was at Huntington Avenue and 50th Street. Another Family Story says that my dad, the Sailor, and several shipmates were hanging around there on liberty in 1943 when some North End gals, among them one of my mom's cousins, enticed the boys to follow them, and they led them down 47th Street ..... right past my grandparents' home with my mom sitting on the porch. As they say, the rest is history. |
| - Carol Buckley Harty ('65) of NC - 11/23/03 |
- Dave Spriggs ('64)
of VA -
08/10/03 Thanks, Dave! |
The photo of what
used to be The North End Pharmacy is of special interest to me.
The appearance of the building has
changed significantly.
In my time, the entire building was "obviously" all brick.
I had seen the renovation to the first floor
that created a branch of the NNSB
Credit Union,
taking away the obvious NE Pharmacy and the "Rainbow Soda Shop".
The soda shop was owned by the parents of George Anas ('65 - of VA).
You can't even tell that it was ever there!
Additionally,
"they" have applied stucco or paint to the rest of the building.
In my day, above the pharmacy and soda shop,
were 3 apartments.
As you look down the 2nd story side of the building (50th Street),
all but the first single window were
windows of our apartment.
The second set of double windows was my room. I had quite a view!
The Smith's, Steve ('65),
his sister Cheryl (?) and their mother, lived in the
apartment whose windows
include the one single on the side and all
of those across the front of the
second floor.
Beside the
building, facing Huntington Avenue next to the soda shop (on the right),
was a brick house owned by one
of the grumpiest "old ladies" that ever existed
and
next to that, a very nice church (51st & Huntington) with a slate roof.
They don't exist anymore! We moved to that apartment from the "spacious
townhouses" of 45th Street.
From there,
in 1963, my folks did the most unthinkable thing by buying a house
in Hampton!!
Then I had to live among "the enemy"!!
It turned out alright, I married one of
them 37+ years ago.....
- Wayne Stokes
('65)
of VA - 08/12/03
Thanks, Wayne!
I remember
North End as well! .....That's
also a great ad from North End Pharmacy! We always got our prescriptions
from there!
The Pharmacist for years
was Irving Adelson and
was the sweetest man!
I always said hi to him every time
I went in there, and also,
they had a
fountain counter there and had the best milkshakes! YUM!
- Sarah
Puckett Kressaty
('65)
of VA - 08/13/03
Thanks, Sarah!
Just thought I would add to the North End Pharmacy spot. My husband, Myles
Hudson (Warwick HS - '60),
drove the little Jeep
the Summer of 1959 when he worked for the Adelson's.
Sam ran the front of the Pharmacy
and Irvin was the Pharmacist.
- Cathy Slusser Hudson ('64) of VA
- 09/27/05
Thanks, Cathy!
 Frieda S. AdelsonNEWPORT NEWS - Frieda S. Adelson, 79, passed away on April 18, 2006, at the Hebrew Home of Greater Washington. She was born in Gastonia, N.C., and was a resident of Newport News, Va., for 52 years prior to moving to Rockville, Md., in August 2002. Frieda and her husband Irving were proprietors of several pharmacies in Newport News including the North End Pharmacy on Huntington Avenue from 1950 to 1972. She was the vital statistics registrar for the City of Newport News Health Department for over 10 years. The only child of the late Jennie and Sol Sturman, survivors include her husband of 58 years, Irving Adelson of Rockville, Md.; four children, Barry Adelson of Houston, Texas, Frona Adelson of Arlington, Va., Evan Adelson of Lynchburg, Va., and Julie Adelson Kaye and Howard Kaye of Burke, Va.; and two grandchildren, Seth and Sophie Kaye. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made in Frieda's memory to the Hebrew Home of Greater Washington, 6121 Montrose Road, Rockville, MD 20852.
A funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Sunday, April 23, at Rodef Sholom Temple, 318 Whealton Road, Hampton, Va. Interment will
immediately follow at Rosenbaum Memorial Park in Hampton, Va. Family
will be receiving visitors at Point Plaza Suites, 950 J. Clyde Morris
Blvd., Newport News, Va. |
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