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Today’s offering is, believe it or not, more Italy!
It’s late Sunday and I’ve just gotten my work PC back from the dead. Gotta love the Friday-morning-ordered, Sunday-afternoon-delivered-at-no-extra-cost Amazon service as I’ve now got a bigger, faster, new main drive plus memory upgrade for my laptop and I’m out < $150. Not bad for a major jump in responsiveness and speed on top of the the needed hardware replacement/upgrade. I chose a hybrid drive, so some SSD with smarts on top of the normal hard drive, and my old laptop is now crazy fast.
That all said, it’s time for bed and so here’s some joy. Have a great day all!
Today, some amazing stuff from opiejeanne. I could spend hours photographing all that stuff, thank you for sharing!
This is part 1 of a set of 10 photos of a pharmacy in Messagne Italy taken in September, 2014. The shop had been closed up for many years, and was left just as it had been when it first opened. My niece and her husband were living nearby and she got the owner to open the shop for us. He was very gracious and we thought the shop was beautiful. The shop had belonged to his grandfather, and if you look carefully you can see his portrait from WWI through the center cabinet, hanging on the wall behind it.
Veleni means poison and Erotici means exactly what you think it does.
I will send you part 2 in a few minutes.
Hi,
This is part 2 of the pharmacy in Messagne, Italy. Veleni means poison and Erotici means exactly what you think it means.
You can see the original owner through the glass of the center cabinet, and you may see me reflected in one of the side cabinets.
So neat – thank you, travel safely, and do send more!
Have a great day and week everybody, I hope that it’s good all the way around!
Le Comte de Monte Cristo fka Edmund Dantes
Love the cabinetry!
Wonder what the “erotiki” powders and potions were?
dance around in your bones
An erotic dream of a drug store – I would work there with kohl-rimmed eyes, draped suggestively in a filmy kimono trailing the slightly dusty floor … helpfully offering a sleeping powder or a little blue pill …
OzarkHillbilly
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo fka Edmund Dantes: Bill Cosby’s dating pharmaceuticals?
satby
So beautiful, and sad it’s shut now. That treasure should be on view. Thanks, opiejeanne!
Le Comte de Monte Cristo fka Edmund Dantes
Looking at it again, that town must have had some major money around back in the day – those are not inexpensive adornments on the cabinets.
rikyrah
What great pictures ?
debbie
Love the art deco! Who says Italians can’t mix and match?
MomSense
So cool, opiejeanne.
J R in WV
Thanks so much, opiejean!!!
An amazing documentation of an amazing era – Art Deco. Those cabinets and stained glass and brass fittings are fabulous. Nice photography too, it’s hard to take good photos of such reflective things!
Poisons & Erotica, at the family drugstore!?!? Maybe the family should open it as a museum and custom blending compounding pharmacy, charge a fortune, by appointment only, Dr on call to prescribe while you wait with the pharmacist… sky’s the limit on $$$.
Quite a fantasy in my head now!
Mnemosyne
FWIW, I’m pretty sure the style is Art Nouveau, which preceded Art Deco by a decade or two, though there’s always some overlap in styles. Gorgeous pictures!
stinger
Hi, opiejeanne! What a beautiful place, and how nice of the owner to open it for you! Maybe he’ll see some benefit to reopening it permanently. Style like that should be seen and treasured.
opiejeanne
@Mnemosyne: Argh! You’re probably right. I sent the pictures late at night/wee hours.
opiejeanne
@J R in WV: Yes, the reflective surfaces were difficult and these are the best out of 40 or 50 shots, and I hesitated to send these.