[PRCo] OT: Leeches (was: Aerotrain)

Donald Galt galtfd at att.net
Sat Feb 1 17:40:13 EST 2003


On 1 Feb 2003 at 13:00, Bob Rathke wrote:

> In the center of the building was Hahn's Florist next to the fountain, and
> Olga Snyder's Used Book Stand.  And, of course Hite's Drug Store in the
> northwest corner of the building - they had a good camera department (a
> place for me to shop, but not buy much).  Hite's also had a hand-painted
> sign in the pharmacy reading, "We have leeches".
> 

Wow! ahead of his time, eh?

A caution, though: The name "leech" was also given to an artificial blood-
drawing apparatus. Could the sign perhaps have referred to one of these?

Don




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