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Show Pharmacist Steve Marshall and staff stand proudly before unique new building in Panguitch that opens By Nancy Twitchell PANGUITCH With the grand opening of Panguitch Drug Company in it's new location on Center street in Panguitch, the Marshall family will celebrate 81 consecutive years of pharmaceutical service to the people of southern Utah. The new architecturally innovative and historically accurate facility will house the local pharmacy which services all of Garfield Courtly and surrounding communities as well as the Garfield Memorial Extended Care Facility. It also features an expanded housewares section, book section, school and office supply section, arts, crafts and music section, a Hogi Yogi sandwich and yogurt shop, a Cowboy Store featuring western wear, hats and boots, saddles and tack and a section just for crafts by local artisans. The venture is a long awaited and carefully planned move that is a giant step away from the humble begin- July 4 Structure reflects local architecture and history, fulfilling Marshall's dream. As New $2 Million Building Opens In Panguitch, Pharmacist Says Grandpa Started It 81 Years Ago nings of Panguitch Drug 8 1 years ago. The grand opening will be held Friday and Saturday, July 4-5 4-5 from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. with free drinks, door prizes, wagon rides, drawings, balloons, buffalo burgers and homemade ice cream. A permanent unique historic pharmaceutical exhibit displays medicines and pharmaceutical apparatuses dating back to the 1890's, many saved down through the years from the Marshall business. Included are older medicines, apothecaries, mortars and pestles, a manual tablet press and dies, a suppository mold, a water pipe and numerous other items. Also on display are several items from the old pharmacy soda fountain including several of the , (See Unique New Building Opens In Panguitch On Page 7A) Uniaue New Building Owens In Panffuitch From Front Page ice cream stools, an ice cream sandwich press and a tobacco wad cutter. Owner and primary pharmacist Steve Marshall has invested much of himself in this huge undertaking but credits his family and loyal staff with making the relocation and new business work smoothly. His staff at the three businesses has literally doubled the past couple of weeks. Steve studied architecture and historical structures, especially turn-of-the-century properties, for some three years before undertaking under-taking this project. He consulted also with many of the state's specialists on renovations of historic properties. He was assisted in design of the new facility by as many as five different architects and landscape architects. Though not an attempt to duplicate any specific historical histori-cal building, the new structure is a carefully thought out combination combina-tion of several different historic Panguitch structures such as the original old social hall which burned down, the old North Ward LDS church, the original old tabernacle, and others. The building encompasses the best and the most beautiful esthetic elements of the 1890 to 1920 structures with dentils, corbeling and keystones, brass fittings, mansard roofs and a number of specially designed windows indicative of many of the old structures. Steve has always hated the term "strip malls" and didn't want anything modern and flashy. He noted that he and the architects burned up several fax machines just revamping blueprints with numerous modifications. Architects included Frank Fisher of St. George, historic landscape architect Allen Roberts of Salt Lake City, and Dale Peel, a builder and pioneer furniture maker, Mt. Pleasant. These architects are responsible for more historic research and building than any others throughout through-out the western United States. The group spent nearly a year finding the perfect brick to duplicate the historic Panguitch brick of that era. Cabinets and shelving fixtures in the facility are fusion maple and Windsor mahogany. Local carpenter Randy crafted all the fixtures for the book section, with Dale Peel created two large tables and several other fixtures. A large 12-foot cabinet which had served to hold storage in the old drug store behind the soda fountain was stored for some 20 years by Steve Marshall whose aim was to restore it. Local craftsman Bill Slack helped to dig through the numerous layers of paint to find a beautiful, oak-finished, oak-finished, beautifully restored cabinet. The workmanship is outstanding with the original fittings all still intact. Outside the facility the landscaping includes period light poles and native southern Utah plants. The new parking area boasts 44 car and bus parking spaces and an outdoor dining patio. The long-standing tradition of a family drug store dates back to W. Earl Marshall. W. Earl's parents, Joseph and Sarah Jane Marshall, who resided in Hatch in their early years were flooded out when W. Earl was young and the family moved to Ashton, Ida. W. Earl attended most of his grade school and high school years in Idaho working as a drug store clerk and in a theater where he wound rolls of film by hand. He knew early on what he wanted to do with his life. His folks didn't have much money but they made certain he had enough money for a train ticket to make it to the University of Southern California. From there he took charge, beginning the day he got off the train to work as a pharmaceutical assistant. Four years later he graduated with a pharmaceutical chemist degree, equivalent to a doctor of pharmacy degree and worked for one year in California. W. Earl was one of seven children almost all of whom attended college and went on to professional careers, unusual in those days. Two were pharmacists, one a professor at Brigham Young University, one a teacher, one a nurse and all very much involved in higher education. educa-tion. W. Earl Marshall opened the first family drug store on Feb. 1, 1916 where the current bike shop is located adjacent to the Dale Williams Law Office on Center street in Panguitch. Many still living will recall that it was also the year that John Morrell froze to death trying to cross Panguitch Lake on snow shoes. W. Earl had stopped in Panguitch to visit his sister Sadie Ipson and it was she who talked him into leasing a building next to her dress shop to start a drug store. He stayed at that location about a year then moved over to Main street into the old Jim Clarke building. One year later he took over as pharmacist at the old Elk Drug and ultimately purchased the facility renaming it the Panguitch Drug Company. Grandpa Marshall was innovative innova-tive and had great foresight. He was the first to offer many items in his store which were new to area residents. He sold gasoline, Maytag washers, Philco radios, Edison phonographs, had an ice cream parlor and sold the first fresh bananas. He married Eva Daly and they reared four sons and three daughters, all of whom became well-educated professionals. profession-als. W. Earl served as a pharm acist for the community from 1915 to about 1950 when son Monte Marshall moved back to work with him and began to purchase the business. Monte had attended college at the University of Idaho, graduating in 1944. He was automatically exempt from military service back then as he was within two years of receiving his degree. After graduating he served in the Navy for two years. Discharged in 1946 at the end of World War II, he returned to work alongside his dad in Panguitch for a couple of years. He then worked at Kelly Drug in Price for awhile until his father again needed his help. Monte retired from his pharmaceutical career in August 1989 saying his career choice had provided him everything in life he had desired. He had married Cleo Tebbs and reared five children all of whom graduated with college degrees arid married spouses with college degrees, a fact of which the elder 'Marshalls are very proud. The Monte Marshalls have ibeen supportive both emotionally and financially of son Steve as he sought to fulfill his dream of a 'new pharmaceutical center in Panguitch, although they admitted admit-ted initially such a large investment invest-ment and growth was hard to accept. Cleo acknowledged that there is a deep drive in the Marshall family to excel and achieve much, a trait, she says, that Steve has come by naturally. , The staff at Panguitch Drug Company looks forward to many 'njore wonderful years of service to the community and Steve is grateful for the heritage that was ' the impetus for the landmark structure that opens July 4, celebrating cele-brating that heritage and his own dream for Panguitch. |
