Gunn's Pharmacy
Gunn's Pharmacy, Inc. or Gunn Drug Company, was a large drug store and soda fountain located on the northwest corner of 19th Street and 3rd Avenue North. It was formed when William Gunn bought out Birmingham's Ellis Drug Company in 1895.
The business was incorporated in 1908 by William Gunn, A. A. Gambill and Thomas Bowron, and became known as the Gunn Gambill Drug. Co. in 1910. It was originally located at 2017 2nd Avenue North. By 1912 the company operated from two locations, at the corner of 20th Street and 3rd Avenue, and the larger one on 19th and 3rd. That store, just south of the Hillman Hotel and across from Blach's, had a soda fountain, which it advertised with a towering illuminated sign, and was shared with Covell Studios, which provided photographic services. The store advertised its stock of "alway's fresh" Huyler's Candy from New York.
In 1914 the Gunn Drug Company reported that it was moving into a new building being constructed by Leo Steiner at the corner of 20th Street and 4th Avenue North. It was reincorporated as the New Gunn Drug Co. in 1915 by William, two sons, J. McG. & C. G. Gunn, and John H. Miller.