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Historic Ojai Village Pharmacy Est. Circa 1891 |
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8/21/1891
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First issue of The Ojai – Norhoff’s first newspaper advertises The Ojai Drugstore |
| Ojai drug store at 302 East Ojai Ave. owned by Dr. Benjamin Saegar, one of two doctors in Nordhoff | |
| Population 300 | |
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1895
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Tom Clark opened a horse livery where the current Ojai Village Pharmacy is located. |
| Drugstore located where Kindred Spirit is today | |
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8/12/1909
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Ojai Drug installs new soda fountain |
| Disastrous fire in Ojai Valley | |
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1911
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Dr. Saegar sells business to W.V. Skillman |
| Twelve days of heavy rain washed out railroad tracks | |
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1912
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Skillman sells business to S.D. Nill |
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1916
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John Flanagan purchases drug store from Nill |
| It snowed in Ojai | |
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1917
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Two great town fires – June and September. Residents and merchants helped move the drug store’s inventory from 302 E. Ojai Ave to safe quarters |
| Clark’s auto livery burned down in fire | |
| E.A. Runkle bought Clark’s Auto, taxi and stage line business at 110 Signal Street | |
| Nordhoff officially changes its name to Ojai | |
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1918
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Flanagan moves Ojai Drug to corner at 202 E. Ojai Ave – original location of Clark’s horse livery |
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9/1919
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Flannigan sells the Ojai Drug Store to Baker and Pratt, father and son-in-law. |
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12/1919
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George and Ida Crampton purchase the business from Baker & Pratt at the corner of Ojai Ave. and Signal Street where current pharmacy is located |
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1920
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City population 500; 1100 in valley |
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1924
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F R. J. Boardman buys business from Crampton and runs it as Boardman’s Drug Store. Son Jay Boardman later takes over store. |
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1927
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Population of valley 2,100 |
| Ojai has two doctors: Dr. Saegar and Dr. King | |
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1928
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City puts up street signs |
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1947
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Dr. E. K. Roberts and Tom Clark purchase drug store and names it the Village Drug. |
| Severe drought caused critical water shortage | |
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1950
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Population of city, 2,519; 12,000 in valley |
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1955
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Roberts and Clark sell business to Ripley who owns it for four years. |
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1959
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Ripley sells the business to Alex Golbuff. |
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1963
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Population in valley, 18,000 |
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1967
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Stan Lazarus purchases the "other" drug store known as Ojai Pharmacy located at 328 E. Ojai Avenue. |
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1968
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Golbuff sells business to Leonard Badt |
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1980
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Population of city, 7,000; 25,000 in valley |
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1982
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The Badt estate sells business to Stan Lazarus who merges Ojai Pharmacy and Village Drug renaming it Ojai Village Pharmacy |