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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
SEATTLE—Bartell Drugs celebrates 114 years of serving the Puget Sound area this month with a special Memorial Day weekend promotion at Seattle’s Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI) and plans for two new store openings this summer.
As part of the anniversary festivities, Bartell Drugs has teamed up with the Museum of History and Industry to offer a special reduced admission of $1.14 during Memorial Day weekend, May 28 – 31. A display on Bartell Drugs’ history will be located in the lobby, where visitors can also enter to win an authentic 1890 silver dollar.
Bartell’s continues to grow with the Puget Sound neighborhoods in 2004, with the opening of two new stores in downtown Seattle and Crossroads in Bellevue this summer. The downtown Seattle store--located inside the Union Bank of California Center at 4th and Madison--marks the company’s first new downtown location since 1991, while the Crossroads store at 653 156th Avenue NE will become the company’s second 24-hour location.
Founded in 1890 by George H. Bartell, the company is the oldest drugstore chain in the United States. It has had the distinction of being the first discount pharmacy in Seattle, the first chain in the west with in-store soda fountains and film development, and the nation’s first drugstore in a major regional shopping center—Seattle’s Northgate Mall. The company has been headed by three generations of Bartell’s—George H. Bartell, George H. Bartell Jr. and George D. Bartell.
Throughout the month, Bartell Drugs will be offering savings on advertised specials in the weekly flyers in honor of its anniversary.
Plans are also in the works to break ground this fall on the company’s recently announced Shoreline store, located at 185th and Highway 99, which is slated to open spring 2005.
The Bartell Drug Company is the nation’s oldest drugstore chain. The family-owned company has 52 stores in King, Snohomish, and Pierce counties.
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