In the June 7 issue of the Signal Tribune, we asked readers to tell us their memories of Horgan’s Pharmacy, once located on Cherry Avenue in Long Beach.
One reader and former Horgan’s employee shares her story of the drugstore and its owner Pat Horgan.
Jo Ann Bentley (now Jo Ann Chastain) of Long Beach said:
The store was on the corner of 14th and Cherry. I worked at the fountain when I was a junior in high school. That was around 1954 or 1955. I worked with a neighbor and we had so much fun there and could eat anything we want.
Pat Horgan was the nicest guy. He was a really great man.
I remember after my dad got hurt and had to stop working. He would take my daughter and deliver medicine for Pat. I don’t think he ever got paid, but it was just something that he did as a friend. He would shoot the breeze with Pat and deliver medicine to people who couldn’t get to the drugstore.
I remember Horgan’s had the green stamps. Those were the good old days. I just found some blue chips I still had from back then. There’s not many places like that anymore.
It was just a great place to be. Even if people had no money, Pat would let people go and get what they want and let them pay later. He trusted everybody and was just a well liked man.
