In the last post, I mentioned Bondurant's Pharmacy in Lexington, Kentucky, which looks like a giant mortar and pestle and I had never heard of it. I had to look it up. There is a Wikipedia article and a home site for the place.
Unfortunately, neither gives a lot of information.
i sometimes go through there going to or coming back from North Carolina, and will have to check it out sometime as this is just the kind of stuff I am interested in.
It is listed as being along Highway 60 and Village Drive and Versailles Road. Oddly enough, it wasn't built back in the 20s or 30s as I would have imagined, but in 1974.
It was named after Joe Bondurant who got the idea after visiting Las Vegas. The main part of the building, the mortar, is based on the Kentucky Fried Chicken bucket.
The mortar stands 30 feet tall with the pestle going up another 10. It is 32 feet in diameter and there are two drive-through windows. The R and A in the name form the pharmacist RX on the outside.
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