Bower & Roumillat’s Bottle

Bower & Roumillat’s Bottle

Bower & Roumillat’s Bottle

Sanford (Fla.)

Drugstores--United States

Pharmacy--United States

Located at 100 East First Street on the corner of Park Avenue in Sanford, Florida, Bower & Roumillat was the first business to occupy the Brumley-Puleston Building that was completed in 1923. Roy C. Bower and Gene Roumillat opened the store together. By 1947, after receiving his pharmacy license at the University of Florida (UF) in Gainesville, Francis E. Roumillat, Jr. began working for his father at the Roumillat and Anderson Walgreen Agency. Known for its curbside service and milkshakes, the store operated for 55 years before closing in 1977. This 1920s-era bottle is from the original store and likely contained liquid medicine or perhaps a white powder used to make compounds.

Original color digital image, 2015: Museum of Seminole County History, Sanford, Florida.

2015

Museum of Seminole County History, Sanford, Florida.

Sanford Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.

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Bower & Roumillat, Sanford, Florida

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Copyright to this resource is held by the Museum of Seminole County History and is provided here by RICHES of Central Florida for educational purposes only.

Fried, Aaron

Cepero, Laura

Wersinger, Tammy. "In Seminole County during this week in . . .1918: Roy C...." The Orlando Sentinel, May 8, 1988. http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1988-05-08/news/0040050252_1_seminole-county-sanford-first-seminole.

"The Sanford Historic Preservation Board Presents The Sanford Historic Downtown Walking Tour." Sanford Historical Society, Inc. http://sanfordhistory.tripod.com/Links/wtour.pdf.

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