James J. O'Mara Pharmacy Museum
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a restored drug store circa 1895
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one of the last remaining old drug stores in
Newfoundland
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the last remnant of the urban commercial streetscape
of Water Street
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its architecture is a form of Art Noveau and Art Deco
Almalgam, and it is particularly interesting because of its exterior decoration
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walk into a drug store just like those that operated
in St. John's just before the turn of the century
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view a set of antique oak drug store fixtures made in
England in 1879 and brought to St. John's
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the original coin operated gas meter will bring back
memories of when the city was lit by gas
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the ornate tin embossed ceilings, installed when the
building was constructed, are a real conversation piece
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you will be fascinated with the "Show Globes"
hanging in the windows, denoting the site of an apothecary shop
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view the antique apothecary bottles filled with colored
medicines