Hebron Pharmacy Closes

HEBRON

Since the word got out earlier this month, longtime customers of the Hebron Pharmacy have been lamenting the end of an era.

But not Spike Houston.

"I don't think I'd glamorize it quite like that," Houston said. "I prefer to think of it as a job well done."

Houston, 69, who opened and operated Hebron's only pharmacy next to Ted's Supermarket in 1974, is calling it a career. The pharmacy will close Friday and reopen on Monday under the CVS banner.

"It's been a great run for me for nearly 39 years," he said.

Houston recalled this week how a phone call the day before Thanksgiving in 1973 from a local developer named Bob Tupper set his move to Hebron in motion.

"He said "'I understand you're interested in opening a pharmacy,'" Houston said.

That phone call lead to a series of meetings, including one with Tupper's bank, in which the banker was instructed to give Houston whatever he needed to get the business up and running.

"What he did for me, I tried to do for others," Houston said.

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Hebron Pharmacy Closes