I really love that Art Deco "Prescriptions" sign across the top! It looks so sleek and modern.

"You got a cute vest-pocket Mazda, which you can make glow slow and fasta" - Glow Worm, recorded by the wonderful Mills Brothers.

I still always picture a guy with a toy car in his pocket.

The large bottle on the top shelf with hoses coming out, in a wooden crate, is a carboy. I worked for my dad in his drugstore in the early '50s and one of my jobs was siphoning muriatic acid into gallon bottles from a very large carboy. Paid strict attention and never spilled any or burned myself.

     "The Case of the Rusted Room," first published in 1937 as a Clue Club Mystery, is a golden-age British whodunit by the prolific Nigel Morland (here writing under the pen-name John Donavan).

     From the dustjacket: "A curious and baffling murder mystery introduces a uniquely scientific detective: Johnny Lamb, sleuth by profession, outstanding scientist by avocation. The plot is ingenious, the characters alive, and the narrative moves briskly."

     The novel is still available on Kindle so go curl up on your overstuffed Bonaparte Traditional Sofa with an Applejack Rabbit Cocktail and put a Lucky Strike into your long stem cigarette holder and maybe time travel back to 1937.

When I was very little I can remember polishing my "mary janes" for church ( and by that I mean my mother polished them and I "helped" ). Now I wouldn't even know where to look for shoe polish. Does it still exist??

A blackout lamp was a regular bulb, but then painted black except for a one inch in diameter spot at the top. The bulb was used only in the downward position.

I didn't know they sold those during the war. It's never too late to learn something.

THE SEX SLAYING CANNIBAL of OLYMPIA

Yes, indeed. Co-opted by Thomas Edison and trademarked until 1945, Mazda was originally the name of the Zoroastrian patron of light and wisdom. Perhaps it was Mazda who later brought us those fluorescent light "bulbs" that look like something dispensed by the local Dairy Queen.

Uncensored Detective Volume 1, No. 1, April 1942. Don't you just want to read the lurid details? Me, I'm wondering where the comics are.

I could see these three people behind the counter.

Betty Grable gracing the cover of Photoplay (May 1942 issue) and Penny Singleton on Hollywood (April 1942).

was a great hot cereal, and you could make a drum out of the old container. It was even better with banana flakes (not shown), which came in a resealable tin.