Place 18: Center Street Drug Store
1958; former site in 1985Mr Keene's shop on Center Street, backing onto Richard's Alley. Chapter 10 says it has gone; later passages still name it. Shown as a historical footprint, without inventing a replacement business.
About Center Street Drug Store
Center Street Drug Store is Mr Keene’s former shop, facing Center Street and backing onto Richard’s Alley. It belongs clearly to the 1958 downtown and remains a remembered landmark in later references, although another passage establishes that the business is gone by the adult period. The atlas therefore shows a historical commercial footprint rather than inventing a replacement tenant. Its rear relationship to the alley helps connect Center Street with the nearby Main Street shopping block.
Why this pin is marked A
Named in the novel. The street or the site is named in the text; the exact lot is the atlas’s.
The drug store is marked A because Center Street and the rear boundary on Richard’s Alley are both explicit. Since the alley connects Main and Center, these details place the shop within a constrained downtown block and distinguish its front from its back. The evidence does not identify a street number, exact corner, lot width, or successor use after the store disappears. The selected footprint is reconstructed, and its historical display records the known former site without claiming continuous operation in 1985.
