Tag: Haans

The retail war between Model Drug and Haan’s Drug Store

The corner of River Avenue and Eighth Street saw a retail war in the 1920s. On one corner was Henry Wilson and James Yonkman’s Model Drug Store (present-day Apothecary Gift Shop), and on the opposite corner was Jake Haan and Peter Houseman’s Haan’s Drug Store (present-day Reader’s World). Wilson and Yonkman purchased the Model Drug […]