HINTON W.Va. (Hinton News) – I originally did the story on Rose’s Drug Store in Hinton on February 26, 2024, with photos of the outlandish costumes in the early parades in Hinton and the custom glass bottle for Rose’s Drug Store I had recently found at the large antique flea market in Fairlea. Just to name a few things that were previously mentioned.
I am the secretary/treasurer for the Summers County Historic Landmarks Commission. I was nominated to fill the position by my late friend and fellow Summers County historian, O. Ashby Berkley. While moving the commission’s archives from the basement of the library to be stored at the Summers County Courthouse, I found this rare interior view of Rose’s Drug Store.
As I have said in the previous article about the owner of Roses Drug Store was Shane Rose. He was quite well known around town and abroad for his gimmicks and his unusual means of advertising. From seemingly crazy floats in the local parades around town to his advertisements being plastered on the side of local barns, everything Mr. Rose touched was “over the top.”
The interview at the store, however, was not what you would have expected based on the other photos of the time of Roses. It was seemingly simple, yet a very nice business of that time. Based on the costumes he had in the parades in town, you would have thought the pharmacy itself would have been of a similar bizarre fashion.
