After more than 100 years in operation, a legacy, family-run San Francisco pharmacy is set to shut its doors by mid-summer.
Central Drug Store, located on Mission Street in the Excelsior neighborhood, announced the closure Monday in a social media post titled “the final prescription.”
The owner, Jerry Tonelli, said he plans to retire and will close the neighborhood pharmacy on July 15. The pharmacy has been in business for 116 years, but Tonelli took over in the 1960s, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. (The Chronicle and SFGATE are both owned by Hearst but have separate newsrooms.)…