Schwab's Pharmacy

07/24/2020

Circa 1935

01/22/2020

Circa 1950.

01/22/2020

Circa 1975.

10/24/2017

Sunset and Crescent Heights, 1954

06/07/2017

1945- Hurd Hatfield and Angela Lansbury hanging out at the counter of Schwab's Pharmacy and (maybe) reading reviews of their film "The Picture of Dorian Gray", which was released in March of that year.

02/28/2017

1938 - Harold Arlen was working on a movie score for an upcoming film, The Wizard of Oz. He was having a difficult time composing a ballad for one particular scene. Ballads were usually love songs, but this scene was about a lonely farm girl longing for "a place where there isn't any trouble," and it had him stumped. He decided to take a break from writing and catch a movie at Grauman's Theater with his wife, Anya. He sat in the passenger seat with Anya at the wheel. They turned onto Sunset Blvd, heading East, when suddenly he touched her arm and asked her to pull over. Anya parked the car under the neon sign of Schwab's Pharmacy, as Harold scribbled the melody that just came to him. He rushed inside to call his writing partner, Yip Harburg, from the Schwab's payphone.

"Yippers, can you meet me at my house in 10 minutes? I think I got a nugget."

Photocomposite
Standing, Bert Lahr, Ray Bolger, MGM executive L.K. Sydney,
E.Y. Harburg, Meredith Wilson, & publisher Harry Link.
Judy Garland & Harold Arlen are at the piano.

01/18/2017

"I drove down to headquarters. That's the way a lot of us think about Schwab's. Kind of a combination office, coffee klatch and waiting room. Waiting, waiting for the gravy train."

12/27/2016

09/03/2016

Schwab's Pharmacy circa 1976, from the documentary "Making It In Hollywood", by Frank Cavestani

08/18/2016

February 1947 - Actor William Lundigan saves a runaway, buys her a soda at Schwab's Pharmacy and sends her back to Texas.
It must have been a very exciting trip for her! Glad it ended well.

08/15/2016

Schwab's Pharmacy mural on Sunset Blvd near Silver Lake Blvd in Los Angeles.

07/28/2016

Schwab's Pharmacy, circa 1955. Courtesy of Weird Hollywood.

A woman walks outside Googies Coffee Shop and Schwab's Pharmacy in Los Angeles, California.