Little Drug Company closed its doors on Dec. 28, just a few months shy of 100 years in business on Canal Street in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. Besides being a full-service pharmacy, it offered greeting cards and gifts. Its big attraction was its luncheonette-style eatery with a full complement of burgers, fries, and freshly made shakes and ice cream sundaes.
By DARLENE VANN / Headline SurferNEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- The closing of Little Drug on Canal Street is hitting us old-timers and people born here very hard.
The Little Drug was very popular and had a wonderful little soda fountain inside where many of us went for this ice cream sodas and burgers and fries at lunch.
My stepfather sold insurance at an office on Canal and he and a bunch of other businessmen met at Little Drug every morning for coffee and breakfast.
That was back in the ’70s and ’80s. The food was great and the people working there were wonderful.
I remember "Quincy" who used to deliver for Littles. When I worked at Ocean View Littles is where our drugs came from so once a month David Sikes and I would hash over old times at NSB high school and the people we knew as he audited the drug records.
I remember the firemen who sometimes brought our meds over and when a restaurant fire took the life of one we all wept for days.
Little Drug was a staple of Canal Street for so long that I just cannot imagine it gone. The town is in mourning with its closure.
Thank you to all the staff over the years who made it "the place to go" in town. Best wishes to David Sikes for his many years as the pharmacist (and a co-owner) who helped so many every day. Nothing can replace the hometown feel of that business or those people for many of us old-timers.
Thank you to all the staff over the years who made it "the place to go" in town. Best wishes to David Sikes for his many years as the pharmacist (and a co-owner) who helped so many every day. Nothing can replace the hometown feel of that business or those people for many of us old-timers.
There are no words that properly describe this loss. Saying it will be missed is just not enough.
