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Title: Downtown Osco Drugstore to Close Sept. 5
Description: The Osco Drugstore located downtown at 921 Main is to close September 5, 2006. This building site has been operating as a drugstore for 40 years. With the CVS Corp. buyout of Osco, this store is to merge with the one at 2435 E. Independence Avenue. The drugstore at this location on Main is busy and heavily used by people who work downtown. They have recently added more groceries to meet the need of the growing downtown residential population.
Date: 2006-08-24
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Four Area Osco Stores to be Closed by CVS
Description: One of the Osco drugstores being closed by CVS Corp. is located at 3948 Main Street. This store opened as a Katz Drug store in December, 1934 and has been a Westport neighborhood landmark for many years. The building is known for its clock tower.
Date: 2006-07-04
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Osco Drugstore
Description: Partial frontal and side view looking northwest; located on southwest corner of Main and Westport Road.
Date: 1989
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Osco Drugstore
Description: Photograph of Osco Drugstore at 3948 Main, at the corner of Main Street and Westport Road, circa 1990. The building was originally designed by local architect Clarence Kivett and opened as a Katz Drug Store in 1934. After Skaggs acquired the Katz chain in 1971, the stores began operating under the Skaggs name. In 1985, the store became an Osco drug store after another round of mergers and rebranding.
Date: 1990~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Skaggs Drugstore
Description: Full frontal and partial side view looking northwest; located on southwest corner of Main and Westport Road.
Date: 1978
Object Type: Photograph