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This text message is used to keep the image from rotating in ocr process. Be sure to crop the top .25" off after the ocr process. 162W MAIN LEHI DRUG STORE / PIONEER EXCHAN LEHI, UTAH COUNTY LEHI MAIN STREET HISTORIC DISTRICT UTAH STATE HISTORY 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 3 9222 50017 5836 HISTORIC SITE FORM (UHCS version) Utah State Historic Preservation Office UHCS 10#: 1. Identification 350104 Properly Name: LEHI DRUG STORE I PIONEER EXCHANGE Address: 162 City: LEHI w MAIN County: UTAH COUNTY 2. Documentation/Status Dates Surveyed or Added to SHPO Filing System: General/Miscellaneous File: 191 Reconnaissance Level Survey: 09/92 Intensive Level Survey: 08/97 Evaluation: (A) ELIGIBLEISIGNIFICANT National Register Status: LEHI MAIN STREET HISTORIC DISTRICT National Register Listing Date: 981210 Delisted date: Thematic or Multiple Properly Affiliation: 3. Building Information 1919 Date(s) of Construction: Original Use: COMMERCIAL (GEN.) Height (# stories): 2 PlanlType: 2-PART BLOCK Constr. Material(s): REGULAR BRICK STUCCOIPLASTER Architectural Style(s): OTHER/UNCLEAR STYLE VICTORIAN ECLECTIC Theme(s) : Comments: INLGBLE?; 162-164,166 W MAIN? Outbuildings (total!contributing) : 4. Other SHPO File Information 106 Case No.: Grant No. : HABS/HAER Record No.: State Tax Project No.(s): Federal Tax Project No.: Printout Date: 12116/98 /~ -Z 2J LEHI FREE PRESS ,14J'':Pioneer 'Party and Copy st()re I ,.1 " ; Pioneer Party and Copy .formerly known as :Lebi brug, . has had a face lift ) nd to celebrate the own,ers are having a grand ,reopening extravaganza ~ beginning Monday and ' lasting through Saturday. "The owners and employees , ~t ~ioneer Party and Copy InVIte everyone to come dIld check out the new look ~d stop by to see what is inside. ,.., The building on historic . J.ehi Main Street has been a long time favorite in . Lehi according to the Ekins family who presently own the business. It was "originally established as ' the Lehi Drug Store in the ~;early 1870's, as a frame ~: building and then bought • by Louis Garff, who turned the site into the Lehi Opera House in 1887. : It was later bought i again and returned back" to serving as' the Lehi Drug Store. After several owners, John Franklin Bradsnaw and Gerald R. Taylor bought the business in 1917 for $15,000. The Lehi Drug Store had the finest soda fountain in the city's history and many of the older Lehi citizens remember the frothy concoctions of carbonated water and flavored syrup served there. • In 1959, after 41 years of proprietorship, Taylor retired and sold the business to Abel J. Ekins, his son-in-law. Ekins razed the old structure and hired Melvin Anderson to build a new, modem facility. • In 1982, Ekin:s son, Math Le M,' )~/5-1 . Vf+ NvZ ts face lift, grand reopening Dale, bought the uUluU"""l and : operated it largest owned drug store' in County for some time. . ·In 1992, Dale who was ( not a pharmacist by trade, ,t.: eliminated the pharmacy and renamed the business Pioneer party and Copy. "We have always been avid Lehi Pioneer Fans, and our community has a pioneer flare," said Dale, hence the name for the have a full service copy store. shop, where customers can Recently the 1960's look help themselves or have Ekins family courtesy phol of aqua blue fiberglass one of the employees help panels were changed to you. The store has larg.e Tile store front as It appeared until recenHy. update the business. The tables to spread out proJnew fronts sports a blue ects on, also idea files, canopy and new signs. The color copies, binding, lamistore specializes in free nation, and scrapbook and fun ideas, small gifts, school supplies . cards, and candy, toys and One of the specialties of party supplies. They also I the store is Carnival Toys. , They have the biggest selection of small inexpensive toys for party favors, fishing ponds and carniv~l prizes. They also offer hehurn rental for parties or balloon deliveries. The grand reopening to celebrate the store's new faee lift will begin next Monday, Sept. 11 through Saturday, Sept. 16 and drawings for prizes, a TV giveaway, gifts and balloons for the children will be part of the week's events. Pioneer Party and Copy is located on 154 W. Main Street. LEHIDRUGSTORE PIONEER EXCHANGE Constructed: 1919 Address: 162 West Main Present owner: Johnny Thornton Their pharmacy was stocked with Rexall products-then the world's largest distributors of drugs. State Street Drug also had a lunch counter and was the Lehi station for both Greyhound and Continental Trailways buses. In 1927 or 1928 the Taylors bought out "Bradshaw. They continued to operate the two stores jointly until 1950 when Stan assumed sole ownership of State Street Drug and Gerald became proprietor of the Lehi Drug Store. Both stores were Iocited next door to movie theaters. Uptown boasted the Royal Theatre while downtown d8imed the Utah Theatre. Abe Ekins purchased the Lehi Drug Company from his father-in-law, Gerald Taylor, in 1959. He maintained the drugstore there until 1963, when he moved a door east into a new facility which had been built on the former site of the Lehi Opera House. Dale Ekins had spent much of his boyhood working in his father's drugstore. In 1973 , the final year of his marketing management studies at BYU, young Ekins went into business for himself A marketing survey demonstrated the need for a local store specializing in western clothing, stable gear (saddles and bridles), and veterinarian supplies. To meet that need, Ekins established Western Tack & Togs in the Lehi Drug building at 162 West Main. Ekins moved elsewhere in 1977. For a time his place housed a martial arts studio operated by several Lehi police officers. In 1985 Johnny Thornton opened Pioneer Exchange ("Ye Olde Pawn Shoppe) there. The firm, with the tongue-incheek moniker of "Botique la Junque," advertised "Buy-Sell-Trade--Loans," and also bail bonds. For several years the building has been vacant. If you would like to see a ghost from the past respecting the subject of this feature, drive to the intersection of Main and Second West. Look east towards the second story of 162 West Main and you will see a still-visible advertisement for the Lehi Drug Company. "Keeley's lee Cream--The Best by Test" still whispers from a bygone era The first building situated at 162 West Main was a two-story frame building erected in the fall of 1896 by Louis Garff. The upper part of this building was initially a lodgeroom for the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (Knights of Pythias), a secret benevolent and fraternal order. The ground floor served as a drug store for many years.first run by David Ellingson and then Ben Merihew. In September 19}7 Merrihew sold the Lebi Drug Store to entrepreneur Jobn F. Bradshaw and his pharmacist brother-in-law, Gerald R. Taylor. Initially the new corporation was known as Bradshaw-TayJorandCompany. But in 1919 when the firm traded the Merrihew Building to the Bank of Lehi in exchange for the Lehi Opera House and the Gartf Building immediately west, it became known as the Lehi Drug Company. The two-story GartfBuilding at 162 West Main was demolished and the two-story brick building still standing on the site then constructed. When completed, the ground level of the building became new quaners for the drugstore. The second story of the completed building became the Rose Cabaret, where dancing and entenainments were held. A player piano furnished the music and on sultry summer days when the windows were open the sonorous melody of the nickelodeon drifted along Main Street. The stairway made it convenient to saunter downstairs to the drugstore for a sundae, malt, or a thirst~ quenching soda In 1946 this upstairs area was converted into an apartment, which it remains today. In 1921 Gerald Taylor's brother Stan, having completed a pharmacy correspondence course, passed the state exams and was taken into the business. On May 12, 1926, the company purchased propeny from the People's Co-op immediately east of the Royal Theatre and constructed State Street Drug, which Stan Taylor managed. Both Lehi Drug Company stores had upto-date soda fountains, a fine line of sundries which included R.c.A. radios, as well as sponing goods. 100 -"'162 West Main (on'left) as it looked'in 19'30s 162 West Main in 1988 99 A GUIDE TO LEHI CITY'S HISTORICAL SITES AND PLACES Published by the Lehi Histol"ical Preservation Commission 1997 funded b, grants from the I 'ta h State lIisturical Society a llll I.<'hi ( 'ityCurl'oratil)lI IIAY - 8 . . /02 (), #o{A Let1; 1)rtl5 Stofe Leu; l lTAII PRESS ASSOCIATlO:\ Clipping Sen'ice Phont:: [phone] I Ufp~ Cut1If~( LEIII FREE b~~d~~ ~~ \B ~;)~= ~= f7t~;o~if~';W~e-s~t-e-r-n-~~:e~"~c~l~n~I~~'~~ /)~ . '" , ' , " ' ' ~ ;i'~ ~t " I '. ' " ~yRICHARDVANWAGONER ; ",j ,' 0' ,: '.,' ,:"" , " ' ",:" ~r;u,te~, t::~i;:~:~ ~,:' h;:~~s~~( :" "~'~'f~ [j 'e"h': .,~. ~ 'Ie's'', t' e ': ,.- , " , , , ,:, ' ' , " ' , , .. , . " • '" sultry summer days when the ea'r' 's , ~; ~~\![1;~; :!i;~;l ;lili ~i~i;~ !Ji~ :;~i;:li!I:I,~t~j~1; ~:;'{~·: ~';~ ,~ ~'j[;1:ili :~ tj~~~i;~I~~.~ l' r','y '" , -...:i ndowsorwere open the sonorous . " '~ C ' ; fT)elody the Nicke~od~n. ~dn~~t~: senmgltemson ,adruggJst'sshelves :i : '.;'.': ;~ <i i~,~ ,.j!;'~, " :'l i, ,,~ ' fI"" , ,; " , ', ' " " , ' along MaIO Street. ,,' , , , " '>" " '" ~ere patent medicines, which -- if , l ' ' ' , " , ~ The stairway made it conven-" labels are to be believed-- could '" ,,:.,i . , , ,' ient ~o , saunter ~ownstairs to the ' ' handle any and ,every, complaint. ;~,' tion. It stops all losses by day or,: : hew, graduate of the Des Moines, drugstore for a~undne,' malt ~r a ;-, J:::o~~t:ful.; ballyhoos ' "in the ,"Lehi : night. Prevents quickness of dis- : ,~ Iown, Highland Park College of thirst-quenching soda. In,19-16 th'is '''' Banner"';' over,' the ":yea~s " though ' charge, which ifnot checked leads ,"JPhannacy, who had recently been , upstairs area was converted into ... ' 'dtibious 'now, must have'~en~: a'c,? to Spermatorrhoea and all the ' i working in the Palace Drug StOre ( 'an,~ apartment which it ' ,~epted theri. ·.. \c~ "',~ ~ q:~y:~j.:., horrors of,Im p<?t,ency. CUPID ENE ~ in :..Provo,: boughF the' teh i : Drug~ ay. , " ., ,,' "., u::-,::, , . ;: c ',: .. .., · J ; " ~l'~ Clover Root," for example, ;~ ,c1e!l':s ,th~ !ivf,!r,th,e kit!nl:!~s, an? .~" ! Store. In August of 1900 Merrihew " I In192~~ Ge~~)d Tay,l?r's brother '~( l WIll pUrJfyyourcomplexion, ~egu~ , :-~ t~e urinary organs of al].lmpun- . '; l pur~hased a corner lotat 98 West ') ,Stan, havmgcompleted.,~ phannacy,tt I t, lat~ your ,bowels, and ~akeyou: ;.. ", tJes, CUPIDENE strengthens and I Mmn and constructed a new drug- "cqlTesp,ondence c<?urs(!/ pas.~d ,the{N. :(t!;(~;i ;H;H~!~~~ I ;,p~ad~lear as a beIL~ ' , ',' " ', ,:.:-:::'/: restores small weak organs, The Jstorethere. ; ; st!at.eexamsll~d was tak. en mto. th~ r-~r ~~l;", , ~Bald ,heads, arehE:coming too ,.;reason s~fferers are .not ,cured by 'i In ' Septe~ber 1.917" Men:iJ:1ew "' , bus mess. , On, May 12, ,1926; ',th~;~f.; i»\ii;~lf;:;f,) irfl\1§:lii~,~ :)!equ~,nt aIll:~>ng t~e ';!Iddle aged," :'-: Doctors IS ,beea,use nmety percent .. ;sold the Lehl Drug Store to entr~- " company ~urchas~d pro~erty fr<;>m \fj' < ~~tE!d anoth~,t:.a.d: " thl~ can be pre~ t:~ are troubled ~Ith PROSTATITIS. , ,'preneur John F . Bradshaw and his" "the People s Co-op Immediately east ;';;~ ~ yef.lted by t~e. ~Imely ~~e of,HaIl's \:, CUPIDENE IS, t~e only , known , :;/ pharmacist brother-in-law, G~rald • of the Royal Theatre B:nd constructe(H~i~ ;,~~getable S!c!lJan"Halr ~new.e~.~ ;:..; r~medy to cur~ ~It~out an o~era'!'aYlor. Initinlly the new corpo- ~.,State Street Drug, whlc~:~~~I~a~~~r~; , ", ," " ~e ma.k~t:s.of DeWitt sWI~~ :; )~or · 5000 ~estJmonJals. A ''''rltt~n " ratIOn was known : as Bradshaw- , m,a naged. . " I lIazel Salve wentsofarastoclalm ~',~, ?U~ranteeg1Ven and money returned ,,' !,Taylor and Company, BuUn 1919 ' " Both Lehl Drug Company stores '~ the product could heal "everythi,ng ; f'} fSIX bo~es,,~o,e,s not ,effect a perm;a- " .~when the firm tnided the Merri- ;' " h~d ~p.to-date ~oda ~ou~tains,a I:'; I , ?ut '.8 broken heart," and speclfi~)t ~~nt cu~e. " ," : " " , ;' ,ht'w Buildingto the Bank ofLehi in : fine hn~o~sundrleswhlc~ Included l;.. ~ I ~ cally, listed ,"piles! rectal diseases,' f";; ',, End of commercial break! N.0w ,'" exchange for the Lehi Opera House : ,HC~ radIOS, and sportmg gOO?s. ' :': ~ : , ~uts" , burns, br~lses, teeters, ec~ , ;t ,~orto~ay's feature. T~e first bUI~d- '" imd the GarfT Building immedi-, , Their pharmacy was stocked with zema and all skm troubles.~ , ',' ,' :: mg sltua~ed at .162 West Mam, ' : ately west; it became known as the Rexal1 pr~du,cts -- then the wor!d\ ':,.': , ' ' B~t ,~he most outrageous testi- .'~: ' pr,esent sIte of PIOneer Exch,an,ge, ,,' , Lehi Drug Company, ' " ;,, largest distributors of drugs. ' ';,:' two.story GnrfTBuilding at " StateStn~et Drug also had ,~ : ::~ moma! ofthe hundreds I have read <.:-vas a ~wo-story frame bUJldm.g ', :; J>roclalmed: _ . ", erected m t~e fal1 ofl896 b~ loUIS ·: '162 West , Main lwas demolished ' .Iunc.h ~ounter and was the Lehl ! ~ANHOOI? RESTORED -- GariT, proprietor of the Lehl Opera '" and the ' two~story brick building ', statJ~n for both, Greyhound a~d i:\ , 'Cupldene.' TIlls great Vegetable House a door east. still standing on the site then con - ' ,Cont1nental TraJlways buses. ~' : :"" , Vitalizer, the prescri~t~on of , a ~e .upper part of this building structed, When , completed" the , In 1927 or 1928 the Tnylors ~\~ ;~ fa';!ous French , phYSICIan, WIll , was Initially a lodgeroom for the, ground level ' of the building be- b~ught out Bradshaw. They con~ ; ;: ~', q~lckly cure you of all nervous or , 1: Ind~peryqentOrd~:ofO~dFcllows ; came new quarters for the drug- , ~I~ued to ~perate the two store~ ;-:';' diseases of the generative organs, ' ~,, (Knlghts of Pythlas), a secret be- ' , s(ore. ' ;:: ': ,:: r'- " :-.f ': 1 '" " (, , ,, :" ' i'~ JOintly un,tl,l 1950,.when Stan as- ';~" such as Lost Manhood, Insomnia, : i \ne~olent and fraternal order. The ' ~ The second st~ry of the , com :;·'~ ;sumed sole ow.nershlP of State Stree~ ·, ", P.ainsintheBack,~e.mjna~ : Emis:, ~;_gro~ndf1<>?r~ameI?avidE.El1ing- ': !i pleted , buildi~g , became.the Ros~ (: .,Drugan~Ger.aldbecamepr~p~~~- ~ . -. . ':". ,'" ,-" , . ' . ,.': '.," ' ,... .' ~.- - - '-" . ' Slons, Nervous Deblhty, Plmpl.es, : ; ,s~n s ~lp;~~gStore. ' :.: ' : " ',;" ,<;abaret, where dancing and enter- tor of the Ler~ Dr~g Store. ' " . :;'t':I'::: '!he PIOneer Exch~nge bulldmg at 162 West Main was built Marry, on May 16, were held. A plnyer piBoth stores were located next ", \ by, the Lehl Drug Company.!" , , ," , ' " \ .Drams, Varicocele and Constlpa- ~ : ~Ithm three weeks H. Bert Merrl- ano furmshed ~he musIc and on See ~STERYEARS on pa~~ ~ . ~ ~ " .~:. , ,, ~''' . U'.,,,e' .,,, ' " .' ' " , , .. " - p.,, ,. ' . . . . V , i ' >:" I I I I " , : { , " ; : ., " ::<R. ,'+ The Un~tness ~ Exhaus~mg : : ,EI~mgsondled J 189~. ,:" t'ainment~ , f[;illJlrlii ~n ~919 <' J I ~ " " ",i \ ,1' : :, 1" " ;"\ ' : ",; ' '.." ~1rest~,r~~,~r:~ :. , !:.. ." ., '1' ,J Continued from front page , )~:, 1'9'63 +~j,Em 'he 'moved a ' door east '~ : ma~tial arts studio operated by . ' door to movie theaters~ '.:.:;· ' ..f: into a new facility which had been 3~ several Lehi police officers. In 1985 " ' i Uptown boasted the ROyal The- !:' built on the former site of the.Lehi : :: Johnny Thorntori. opened Pioneer . atre while' downt~wn clai!)'1Etd th~,'\ 'Opera House. ' . ' , ,,' ,!, : :;i Exchange (~e ?ldePawnShoppe).< Utah Theatre. WhIle ad\lI~J?,~:;~n- ~,J '; Dale Ekins had spent muchof :, there. ,, ; il)l.r~~t ~{ /l ;- l~ \':"l i" \; , " ized the drugstl)l:es f~rtno,r.:e.gr~~ ~ his boyhoodworking in his father's ;:; ' The fir~; : w,it~ th~ tongue"ln- '• . up reasons, we young one~'ha,~our : drugstore. In 1973 the final year of ', cheek rnomker of Botlque)a Jun- , own interests: r,ows ;al!d, 't0\\,~ of i,;,' his: I\Hlrketing 'ma~agenient stud- :.: que," advertised ~'Buy--Sell--Trade­ penny candy, SenSens,Jawbreak.<': ies at BYU, young Ekins wentinto: .• -Loans," and also bail bonds. The ers, ice cream cones that were truly ;._( business for himself;)~lt~l~ili~'l~lr,:~!i\. busin ess today, although no longer cone-shaped (likean inve~ qU!lCEi:r- : ' A ma:rk~ting survey demon- · , a:pawn brok erage,)offers a mixture cap), J9Ps, ?~seoan 'i:ar~~~' ~~l.<>:s:t' stra~ed, t,he ~eed for a local s~ore: " of antj9ue.~, ~n~ ,: ~~l,le.ctible~, w.~;!~h! :,· ' ,'J tonet~s, mmlature army~e!1"and speclahzlng In western c1othmg, '~ . T)1ay be seen by appomtment. ' . ': . ; , ;" papeNol.le~ bUbbl. ~-gu. m.·cl...g.a.r.,e...t.tes. .' '. stable ge~r (s~ddles a~d bridles), ". .:,;:~~ If.Yo~ w. QuId like to., see a:gh.. ost ... . that were not agaInst th~ ,Y'~:,~ of \'. and veterInarian supphes. , . , from the pastrespectmg the sub~ . . Wisdom". ". . ' .:,\. ;1 !r'-:i;r~': ;,t , ' Accordingly, Ekins ~~tabl!shed .~ )e'ct ofto~ay's biogr~ph' drive to t~e , " In those days, when tra,velmgto Western Tack & Togs In the old, ~ IlntersectlOn' of MaIO ,and Second' ./ · Salt Lake \alas considereda.1~?,ury, LehiDrug building at 162 West " : West. LOok east toward~ thesec~ :\ I; C, Lehifads emanated largelyJrgm . Main. " .. ' .' . '., ' . ' . ,; Jond story of162WestMam andyou , I~" the ' ~rugst?res(V: : ' \:: ;'::~T:~:~:i,t;j:(t;f~':, ,: Asbiisilless' gr~~ Ekinsremod':; /;:vill see a still-~isible a,dvertise-: ; ?;~ Abe EkInS purchas~d the ,Lehl {peled the former Greenwood Carpet . ment for the Lehl Drug Company . . J " Drug'Company from ~i~ fathe.i:~inf;q}'Warehouse 'a t 36 So~th Second West"Kee~ey'~ Ice ~rE!am -- The Best bY~ . ); law ,Gerald . T.aylor m,'::i.1959.:;; He ::~ll and moved there In 1977. For a ; :Test" stIll whIspers from a bygone .. , :. - · i.· · ~·"'.:J ·th··"e w.,.gswre .J'-"~ " · "':'· · '·t1!'· . :,l!!···" ";I"o",l.' v , ]"" r -,'''' " ./ """l" '" 'h': ''' P'd '" " .1" "., 1', _:·;_ ...,.ht~· . .,;.,J """", :, ,,,.,, ,, ' ._. ,. mamLaJnt!U . .[I~I:e, un .. !' "',LIme. IS 10rrryer.CJ,uaners ouse a :era. ' : ""' . ". :'""."." , ".' . ' '. .. ',.;; <1 1 .~ . , .. ~I••:Ls..:.... VlbJ.1. a.l.l.J ;,' ~l~ vru . ·U · !'·· IJL.~"H.1;_ . =i , lI'; \. I~" .i I(! ,.:'-"' . ~ :; ~';" ) "__ " ;1\, . I ,~I .: .), . (_ ..~~~_~