Earl and Nelle inside Stake Drug

A man and a woman and their magic. Earl and Nelle proudly display their wares.

It was almost too much to hope that a photo like this one would show up. It’s the interior of my Uncle Earl and Aunt Nellie’s drug store in Adams, Nebraska, name of Stake Drug Company, and thus a complement to the photo I posted earlier of the store’s exterior. I also wrote a little about my memory of the only visit I and my siblings ever made to Adams. I believe the stools you see at the counter here

Postcard of Stake Drug Store, Adams, Nebraska

Only a month ago I said in a reply to a comment from my brother that maybe someday years from now someone from the Stake tribe would stumble on this blog and be able to fill in some details about the drug store that my (great) Uncle Earl ran in Adams, Nebraska. Just yesterday I was contacted by a cousin I’ve never met named Alison, who is Earl’s great granddaughter. She was searching the Internet for photos of the old family store when she found a reference to it in my post (here) and discovered the blog. As a result, she contacted her grandfather Bob, who is still very active as a university professor, and he was able to dig up and scan the postcard above.

Good old-fashioned sodas were once served here. Stake Drug Store, Adams Nebraska. It burned in the 1990s.

I had told my brother, and I repeat here, that my memory was vague regarding the precise location of the store but that Adams is basically a one-horse town.