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G.O. Guy was a small chain of drugstores located in the Seattle area of the U.S. state of Washington. The chain was founded in 1888 by George Omar Guy. Throughout the early 20th century, G.O. Guy's was the second largest drug store chain in Seattle behind Bartell Drugs and predated it by two years. In 1987 Pay 'n Save purchased all six locations and converted most of them to Pay 'n Save express stores, slightly smaller than full service stores. Pay 'n Save was bought by Thrifty PayLess which in turn was bought by Rite Aid.〔Seattle Times Archives 1984-9.〕 ==Original location== Many modern sources give the location of the first store as the H. K. Owens / Metropole Building at Second Avenue and Yesler Way,〔〔 however contemporary sources indicate that Guy's first store was actually located about two blocks south, at Occidental Avenue and Main Street. For example, Guy's January 31, 1927, obituary in the ''Seattle Daily Times'', reads: :Mr. Guy started his drug business at the corner of Occidental Avenue and Main Street. After the great fire a year later (in 1889 ), which demolished his store, he resumed business in a tent at First Avenue and Main Street and in 1893 occupied, at Second Avenue and Yesler Way, the present site of the drug company.〔"(G.O. Guy, Veteran, Druggist, Succumbs )", Seattle Daily Times, 31 January 1927, p.3.〕 A ''Times'' article from 1934 gives further details of the several years following the fire: :Guy's first thought was for the medicines, and he saved them to establish headquarters in a first-aid tent, where he stayed until a frame building was finished at Fourth Avenue and Main Street... Later he moved to First Avenue and Main Street and, in 1893, he moved to Second Avenue and Yesler Way. There the store still stands.〔"(Guy Stores Celebrate Soda's Birth )", Seattle Daily Times, 31 May 1935, p.12.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「G. O. Guy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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