SF legacy business to close after 116 years, oldest operating shop in Excelsior

((Crohn– The oldest operating store in the Excelsior area in San Francisco, soon closes its doors forever. Central Medicines Store, located in San Francisco ScoreShe announced the last day of its operations on July 15.

The pharmacy was opened for the first time in 1908 in 4494 Mission St. It has been in the same title since then. The central pharmaceutical store was added to the San Francisco Legacy List in 2021.

The closure comes at a time when the owner of the central pharmaceutical store, Jerry Tonelly, announced nearly 50 years. The Tonelli family bought ownership of the central pharmaceutical store in 1965.

“Through a heavy heart, I announce my retirement,” a farewell publication in the central pharmaceutical store Facebook page Read. “We are a small, but strong pharmacy, and we are proud to say that we are out of Walgrens, CVS, Rite Aid and postal orders services. I am pleased to say that this is my choice and I will leave my own conditions! It is time for us all to start a new stage in our lives and spend more time with our families.”

The central pharmaceutical store is the only pharmacy in the business record in San Francisco, which includes more than 400 total companies in the city.

Dozens of pharmaceutical pharmaceutical sponsors commented on a Facebook publication, expressing their grief and gratitude regarding news about the upcoming closure. Some customers remember going to the pharmacy until the fifties.

One of the central drug stores wrote: “I cannot know the number of lives that affected it. As a small girl in the fifties of the last century, I and Toseca Chiantelli came in your store every Saturday and looked at everything in the screens and chose medical prescriptions.”

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The pharmacy is also a general store that sells “goods ranging from strong medical equipment, perfumes, cologne, toys/animals stuffed, gifts and home commodities,” according to the old business record.

“Thank you all from the bottom of our hearts,” and has concluded a farewell function of the central pharmaceutical store.

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