There's a pretty strip of land along the mid-Atlantic coast called the DelMarVa peninsula because three states, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia, each own a chunk of it. When you get to the southern-most tip of it, you're at the outstanding engineering marvel that is the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, which is actually a bridge and a tunnel. On a pleasant drive in that area back in 2005, we stopped at a drug store that had an amusing logo. It's a guy's face, a friendly bespeckled guy, the kind of guy you'd want filling your prescription of Zocor or recommending a good over-the-counter foot powder. I didn't label the photo so I'm not sure if the pharmacy was in Del, Mar or Va, or what the name of the place is, but I believe it was a small chain. Anybody out there know? By the way, if you like kooky roadside signage, Debra Jane Seltzer has a mind-boggling collection of well-annotated photos at her flickr site. I'm a huge fan and you could and should easily spend hours there:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/agilitynut/sets/
She's also in the middle of one of her road trips and you can follow along on her fun blog:
http://roadsidenut.wordpress.com/
Go Debra go!
It's a sign from a drugstore chain, called Happy Harry's, sold a few years ago to Walgreens but all the stores retained the name.
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To add, the face is the chain's logo and is that of Harry Levine, founder of Happy Harry's, which was a Delaware institution. It was the first pharmacy in the state to sell prescription drugs at a discount, which challenged the law in Delaware, which eventually changed in response. Most of us hate Walgreens taking over and still call the stores Happy Harry's.
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