McGill Nevada Drugstore is a Time Machine

McGill Nevada.    Its an old  company mining town of about a thousand people, and like a lot of small towns in Nevada – It’s got a lot of old history.

We rolled through here a couple of weeks ago and found an old drugstore that started in 1907, and finally closed its doors about 40  years ago in 1979.   We poked around and managed to find the caretaker of this place and gave him a call.   He was pretty gracious, and came down and turned on the neon signs and gave us the nickel tour and  history of this place.    I was eating it up — It was like I’d stepped back in time.

The owner wished to preserve this place, and left things just as they are; Products, pharmacy records, advertising — everything.    Daniel was a great tour guide, and told us stories of McGills history, and his time in the military with Chuck Yeager, who’d learned to fly not far from McGill before he went and broke the sound barrier a few years later.

Pretty cool.    I remember a lot of these products and advertising when I was a kid.   If you ever get a chance to go to McGill, this place is worth a stop at:

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7 thoughts on “McGill Nevada Drugstore is a Time Machine”

  1. Loved looking and wondering what items I might remember. Certainly not the Saltpeter! 🙂 Thanks for posting these!

  2. I grew up in Ely and have been here before. I am blown away how everything is still in tact and so much inventory still. And some packaging has hardly changed at all. lol WOW! Enjoyed seeing this. Thanks for sharing.

  3. How is it this place has never been vandalized it broken into? Seems like now it has been posted it won’t stay that way…I hate to see that happen. How long ago were these pics taken? I am thinking of a trip up there if it still is in this condition. I was born in 1979, I have never been even close to seeing something like this. Where exactly is this located? I would much appreciate a reply. If I don’t get to visit, I very much thank you and people like you for sharing such a beautiful, time capsule for people like me to enjoy. Do you visit other places like this? I would love to be on your friends list to enjoy anymore pics you may have. Again, thank you so much! My name is Sonnet Jaackson I am from New Mexico if you would plz add me as a friend.

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