Liberty Drug Co. display window, Abbott's Vitamins — 11/29/1939 — #16830_1
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Photograph Copyright Anderson & Middleton Company
United States — Washington (State) — Aberdeen
Liberty Drug Co.
Display at Liberty Drug showcases the Aberdeen & Hoquiam high schools' traditional football rivalry - the Thanksgiving Day Game. Liberty Drug Co. , Electric Building (1925). Liberty Drug was on the corner of Wishkah and Broadway.
Thanks to Sam Talley, who adds: "About the football rivalry - The night before the Aberdeen-Hoquiam Thanksgiving Day game, game Aberdeen had a big pep rally. Our band would march in the downtown streets. We'd enter the theaters, while the shows were playing, and march up and down the aisles playing our fight song. For the most part the audience was appreciative. Then all the kids met at the sports field across from the YMCA and we'd burn a huge pile of cardboard boxes with a dummy in effigy on top called "Johnnie Hoquiam". Sometimes the Hoquiam students would sneak over and light the fire before the rally. On Thanksgiving Day Aberdeen women wore yellow mums with blue letters 'A' on them and Hoquiam women wore white mums with maroon letters 'H'. The letters were made from pipe cleaners. They were purchased at florists for about $1.50."
