Leblang’s Pharmacy, mixed media, 13” x 10”, 1994, $ 245

My dad, David Leblang, and his family moved into Middle Village in 1912. Amazingly, his parents were able to send him to Columbia University in 1922 to become a pharmacist. He opened his drugstore in Middle Village in 1924. The streets still had gaslamps and no sewers. In those days, people came to him for first-aid, ice cream sodas, plus legal and romantic advice. “When I went to your dad’s store, I felt better as soon as I saw him in the doorway. He would pat me on the shoulder and I’d feel like a million bucks,” said one of
my dad’s longtime customers. The pharmacy was a beacon of light in the community for fifty years.