Two of my best friends in high school worked at downtown Warren drug stores during their junior and senior years. For the most part, they stocked shelves, waited on customers, and made occasional delivers of prescriptions. Gaughn's delivered as far back as 1966, in other words. It was the type of job I had wanted to score.
Instead, I had to settle for being the clean-up guy at Mostert's Bakery, located in Warren East Side Business District, which included Lewis Market (with its huge chicken rotisserie temptingly visible from the street), Taylor's Pharmacy (complete with soda fountain and wooden booths), Walker' Dairy Store (also at the tail-end of its soda fountain days), Ideal Bakery (which peacefully co-existed with its across-the-street for many years), Miller's 5&10, and Paul's Barber Shop.
And what did I do? Cleaned and greased all kinds of baking pans in a small room at the back of the bakery, a space that was not air-conditioned. It was a sweat box during the summer months, but I suppose it built character.
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