55 Good Things About West Virginia: Family Provides Prescription for Drugstore's Success

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Upon returning home from college, Ric vowed to return soda fountain service to the store, which his father had removed during remodeling in 1959. Griffith said the soda fountain is a symbol of an era when men like his father could make a living through hard work and virtue, It was a simpler time, when people would meet at the fountain and pause to share friendship and memories.

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55 Good Things About West Virginia: Family Provides Prescription for Drugstore's Success

KENOVA - Not many businesses can boast being a community fixture for more than a century.

The R. Ney Williams Drugstore was built here in 1892 and has operated ever since - the last 80 years as Griffith & Feil Drugstore.

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