K&B Drugs (1986)

[internetfan2005]

I'm from Lake Charles, LA, and I miss K & B. We had one on fifth avenue in the Wilshire Plaza, which shut down (once market basket left the shopping center) before the buy out, hwy 14, Ryan street, McNeese St, and one in the mall. I wish they wouldn't have sold to rite aid. It's unfortunate that they had to sell, but I even would have been okay w/ walgreens, but rite aid?? Why?

[MsMercury]

Actually several different drug stores bought them out. Rite Aid was only one of them. I worked at the one on Mobile Hwy in Pensacola from '86 to '93.

[TheTecnobiker]

the voice of this ad is ted williams the golden voice

[notojsimpson]

1349 rules

[jupitercrash07]

I miss my purple drug store from my childhood.

[DADRAFTSMAN]

WOW !!!!!!! My mom use to work at the one in Gentilly next to "WoolWorths" if you from New Orleans you know what that is! Can anyone say Esplanade and Broad!!! Man I got all my Holloween costumes in a box from there when I was a kid!!!!! Yea I miss the Vanilla Ice Cream and Cookies and Cream!

[SaintHakim504]

@DADRAFTSMAN Gentilly Woods Mall man that place takes me back so much its a shame they let that big ass place Rot smdh!!!!!!!!!1

[Mindraker1]

Having been in NC for over a decade, I miss the Louisiana liquor laws -- you could buy hard liquor at the K&B.

[HerLabyrinth]

Talk about memories!

[HotRadioDJ]

i miss K&B soo much! This slogan says, "personally yours" but i miss the jingle "between here and there, there's bound to be a k&b" .. i know you're singing it right now! :)

[TlGBC]

what about the drugs?

[tdubblz]

there's no hue like K&B Purple. Crayola should make it an official color.

[chularojo]

ya'll remember when you got your pictures developed at K&B? they used to stamp them with the purple K&B stamp and put the date on there.

[cpc24]

I miss the Butter Pecan more than anything. My grandma used to always get it for me.

[thebleedingjeans]

Ha, WKRG TV5.

[connoret]

I remember going to the FWB area K&B's years ago. One used to be near my house in niceville next to a delchamps (now defunct) and had the best ice cream anywhere.

[foxacoustics]

K&B sold Beer Beer. Had a friend tell me to run to K&B and pick up a case of Beer. I said Bud, Coors....what ya want? He said Beer Beer. I said "so any brand will do?" He said no! I want the K&B BEER. Its just called Beer and its CHEAP!!!

[DarrylXE]

Remember "Get it at K&B" pencils?

[CyberBishop]

K&B purple..

I miss this place... I used to hang out at the one on Jefferson Highway after school in 85 and play Pac Land.. So many memories..

[ls1z28chris]

K&B ice cream was the shit. Cookies and cream!

[CajunGypsy]

Rite Aid promised to maintain the K&B brand on some products when they bought the chain out, and then proceeded to do away with it. I refuse to buy anything from Rite Aid because of this if I can at all avoid it. I miss K&B, Maison Blanche, D. H. Holmes, Schwegmann's and the other fine retailers that gave New Orleans a big part of its unique character. Now all that's left is the same big national chain stores every other city has.

[jontheplatypus]

@CajunGypsy  It's the monoculture effect.

[foxacoustics]

@CajunGypsy

Rite Aid is going bankrupt so they soon will be history also. All that will be left is Wal-Mart. You also left out the National grocery store chain. I miss That Stanley.

[internetfan2005]

@CajunGypsy really? I was not aware of that (rite aid promising to maintain some of the K&B brand items), I wish they would have. I will admit that I do harbor some resentment over rite aid for this

[internetfan2005]

@CajunGypsy plus rite aid is just too expensive.

[renecrod3]

I also miss the Woolworths on Magazine St. by Napoleon Ave. when I was a kid.

[arkhampatient76]

i also remember all the K&B brand booze,

[arkhampatient76]

they had the greatest vanilla brand ice cream

[NitekMuscle]

The Wallace Tunnel! WKRG on Broadcast Drive in the house!

[jasonlava]

We had a big K&B in Chalmette on Judge Perez between Blanchard and Lena drive. Currently, it's a Dollar store (I saw it a few months ago)

[jasonlava]

Does anyone have the old commercial jingle "Look on every corner..."

[jjlucash]

I used to always go here. Anyone remember the Violet mints they used to sell? I still call a deep, vivid purple "K&B purple." Their headquarters were right next to the I-10 back home in New Orleans downtown.

[bigboi0000]

I miss K&B too RITE AID SUX AZZ,

Baton Rouge, La

[NitekMuscle]

Damn, I miss K&B as well.

[swollengoat906]

I still play spades with k&b playing cards.

[Gamezero05]

lol I got those too!

[mrmonty86]

I MISS THE K&B RITE AID SUCKS

[hotband83]

somebody got the beeuty mart commercial.

[hotband83]

we stood in K&B they had some good ice cream too!

[utubefavorsdems]

Their ice cream was delicious,and it was at a good price.

[barimusix]

Rite-Aid bought out almost all of the drug stores in the U.S. Here on the west coast we had Thrifty's and T.G.&Y.

[pktrooper]

The cheapest beer around also :)

[jonimichelle2007]

omg.....i miss k&b...R.I.P..

*CRIES* I WANT MY COOKIES AND CREAM ICE CREAMMM :(

[AarHan3]

K&B, Kirschman's, D.H. Holmes, Godchaux, Gus Mayer, Woolworth/Woolco, Krauss...all legendary local icons in N'Awlins, lost to corporate takeovers.

Yup...'tis true when they say you don't really appreciate something until it's gone. <|,-(

[trekadam30]

@jonimichelle2007 Yeah, me too.

[supernova8370]

I miss the Ice Cream and those automatic little doors that opened when you would go through the front doors and made that grinding sound as they opened...

[brejorato]

Me too! The K&B by my house on Carrollton Ave. had a person working a soda fountain. It had booths with small juke boxes that played old N.O. music like the Meters and Prof. Longhair, and others like Sly Stone, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, and Stevie Wonder... peace brah, from Uptown.

[PelicanGuy]

I have a taste for some K&B ice cream right about now. :-)

[TheStrangestDream]

family size kleenex only 99c!

[drelle504]

I thought that K&B Drugs stores were only in New Orleans. The more you know. LOL

[cpc24]

We had one in the middle of Mississippi. The butter pecan ice cream was to die for.

[DrLove0378]

Yeah... turns out they had a presence in at least five different states. There used to be a mall store in Port Arthur, TX, where I'm from. How I loved it...

[kitten112481]

hmmm...the prices havent changed much over 20 years later, did anyone notice that? the only thing that may have gone up is the price of diapers.

[kitten112481]

OMG i remember the "personally yours" sound effects after all these years. it is truly said that K&B (and mckenzie's doughnuts, for that matter) is only a memory. :(

[dejuanp]

erin: yeah...the 'personally yours' sound effects were tight...i just listened to it...there's an al scramuzza and mckenzie's commercial somewhere around here...i left a comment on your profile...

[asykes9]

As a kid, I remember the K&B on Gentilly Blvd.  It used to have this huge sign with the words "DRUGS". Even though it was a drug store, I found that strange as a kid. Do you remember that sign? It was beaucoup big!!!!!

[Jude1968]

K&B--ah, the memories! Never been the same since Rite Aid took it over

[kitten112481]

i know. Rite Aid is completing their takeover of Eckerd's at the moment. i will never support that drugstore chain that took my beloved K&B away!

[Jude1968]

our Eckerd's closed long time ago--way before the CVS take over of most of the chain in the South. Miss that one too.

[HotRadioDJ]

"Between here and there, there's bound to be a K&B!" -- loved that jingle and miss the store.