Category: Drug Stores

While it isn’t quite a dual Greenhouse, this is about as close to one as we’ll get in the Houston area. (Photo by Sarah Kidd St Julien, January 2009)

Reliving Millennium Memories at the Red Bluff Greenhouse Kroger and Eckerd

December 5, 2025December 5, 2025 Anonymous in Houston 4 comments

Editor’s Note: Today’s post is a guest submission from HHR’s good friend Anonymous in Houston with the photos taken by Sarah Kidd St Julien in January 2009 Greetings, it has been a while since I have published a guest blog post here at Houston Historic Retail. The last post I published here was about a Houston area Kroger, the FM 1960 W & N. Eldridge Grocery Palace Krogertsons to be exact, and anyone familiar with …

Houston’s Walgreens Conundrum

October 3, 2025October 2, 2025 Mike 4 comments

Howdy folks, and welcome back to Houston Historic Retail. Today, we’re taking a break from the norm and visiting a Walgreens. We’re not visiting a special store with any kind of significant history; instead, we’re taking a moment to gripe about the condition of Walgreens. This store, located at 510 Chimney Rock Rd, Houston, TX 77056, is one of many similar establishments across Houston. It’s also not specifically this store I have a complaint with; …

Shoppers might have consider this too much of a "Smallgreens"

Retail News: Walgreens closes prototype Northwest Houston store

April 9, 2025April 10, 2025 Mike 1 comment

Walgreens has ended an experiment in Northwest Houston by closing its location at 12620 Farm to Market 1960 Rd W, Houston, TX 77065. The store opened about two years ago, replacing a full-sized location across the street. The prototype store was the first of its kind in Houston, and the location was downsized to everything but the bare essentials. It was mainly a pharmacy, but it did carry a small assortment of snacks, medical supplies, …

CVS goes on an AARP Approved Diet in Northwest Houston

January 3, 2024January 14, 2024 Mike 3 comments

Howdy folks, Happy New Year, and welcome back to HHR! Today, we have something brand new: the beginning of a CVS experiment in Houston. The skinny on this “CVS Diet” is that it appears to be the first of many planned conversions of CVS stores into Oak Street Health Clinics. The plan’s start in Houston is coincidental, as Walgreens began a similar experiment here in 2019. However, Walgreen’s commitment to the area was more tied …

From the outside at least, it would be hard for one to guess that this supermarket is 50 years old!

The Texas City Kroger’s Golden Anniversary

April 5, 2023December 2, 2023 Anonymous in Houston 21 comments

Editor’s Note: Today’s post is a guest submission from HHR’s good friend Anonymous in Houston with the photos taken by Mike This month’s installment of The Year of Kroger will be an anniversary celebration. 2023 is the 140th anniversary of the formation of Kroger, but that isn’t the Kroger anniversary we will be celebrating in this post. Instead, we will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Texas City Kroger located at 3541 Palmer Hwy, …

Walgreens carved a tiny store out of this old Eckerd

January 20, 2023February 2, 2023 Mike 6 comments

Howdy folks, and welcome back to Houston Historic Retail! Today we’re checking out an old Eckerd that is now hosting a tiny Walgreens along with a few other tenants. The history of 12620 FM 1960 is a bit odd. The corner originally hosted John Eagle Honda, opting to move closer to the highway, leaving this corner for redevelopment. Despite hosting two drug stores, the building has spent most of its life vacant. As an Eckerd …

Here is a more distant view of the store. As one can see here, this store does do a fair amount of business. One can also tell from here that the parking lot is not in the best condition these days.

A Warm Greenhouse Welcome to the Year of Kroger here at HHR!

January 4, 2023December 2, 2023 Anonymous in Houston 10 comments

Editor’s Note: Today’s post is a guest submission from HHR’s good friend Anonymous in Houston with the photos taken by Mike Happy New Year and welcome to 2023, Houston Historic Retail readers! We have many interesting things planned for this year. One of our goals for the year is to cover some of the most interesting Kroger stores in the Houston area. With that in mind, we plan on posting one Kroger post a month …

HHR a Year in Review

December 30, 2022January 11, 2023 Mike 6 comments

Howdy folks, and for the last time in 2022, welcome back to Houston Historic Retail! It’s been a heck of a year, 144 blog posts, 6 new blog pages, and in my personal life, a Master’s Degree completed! That being said, before we review some of my favorite things from this past year, let me ask that if you feel like you got any value out of Houston Historic Retail, please consider making a donation. …

Braeswood Square, 1971 — Here is a drawing of Houston’s newest ‘mall’ in 1971! The Bellaire Texan via The Portal to Texas History, July 7, 1971

Vintage Ads: Celebrating the 1971 Grand Opening of Braeswood Square

December 9, 2022December 8, 2022 Anonymous in Houston 15 comments

Editor’s Note: Today’s post is a guest submission from HHR’s good friend Anonymous in Houston This edition of Vintage Ads will take us back to the grand opening of the Braeswood Square shopping center near Bellaire in Southwest Houston. Braeswood Square’s grand opening was on July 8, 1971 and we’ll be looking at various ads from the July 7, 1971 edition of The Bellaire Texan newspaper which is freely available to read at The Portal …

CVS to close this former Westheimer Eckerd, tomorrow

September 28, 2022October 12, 2022 Mike 12 comments

Howdy folks, and welcome back to Houston Historic Retail! Today we’re taking a look at a closing CVS that started out as one of the final Houston Eckerd locations. Located at 9292 Westheimer Rd, Houston, TX 77063, the current location dates all the way back to about 1975. The original Eckerd was co-located with a Safeway at 9523 Westheimer Rd, Houston, TX 77063. Safeway’s first batches of stores included agreements to build locations with Eckerd …