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On this date, March 18, 1968, I started my career with Turn*Style / Osco Drug stores. It was one of the few best choices that I made in...

I began my career as a trainee for Savon Drugs one month after college graduation and three weeks after my wedding in 1971. I started as...

Thank you to all who took the time to put together some great recollections and stories about Mitch Oddo. For those who knew Mitch, this...

I’m truly honored to have worked with many of those talented people in my 47 years. As I looked at the company milestones I realized I...

I just spent some time going thru old pictures, people magazines and other memorabilia. With the passing of time most of the strategies,...

As of 2014, I have been retired 16 years and marvel at the camaraderie that exists in hundreds of our retirees. That speaks well for the...

I joined Osco Drug in Iowa City Iowa, in 1963, while attending my final year of pharmacy school at the University of Iowa. I was hired by...

It's hard to imagine that it's been over 23 years since I retired. What a gift that has been for me and what a privilege it was for me to...

Osco’s President Wes Christopherson hired me during the Company’s thirtieth anniversary year in 1967. I was privileged at that time to...

In the fall of 1963, I was a sophomore at the University of Iowa in Iowa City in need of a job within walking distance from the...

The very first store I worked was located at 11255 South Michigan, in the Roseland area on the far Southside of Chicago. My dad, Edgar...

I have many fond and lasting memories from my 20 years in the business. I will always be thankful for the important role Osco played in...

I started with the company in July of 1964. Prior to that time I was working at the Santa Fe Railroad. I was also attending Northwestern...

My introduction to Osco came in an interview I had with Fred Dearborn and Bill King on a Pharmacy recruiting trip to South Dakota State...

In 1978, I was asked to rejoin Osco as Executive Vice President of Operations. It was a traumatic time. Was Jewel Companies selling...

My time with Osco and the Jewel Companies ended in 1985, shortly after American Stores acquired everything that was Jewel. By that time,...

My Osco career of 29 years commenced in 1949 as receiving clerk at the Mason City, Iowa store. At that time Osco only had 13 stores....

One Saturday in 1960, just about seven years after I had joined Jewel, George Clements asked me to meet him at his office. Fred...

Thank you to all who took the time to put together some great recollections and stories about Mitch Oddo. For those who knew Mitch, this...

In the 1980's Sav-on bought the Payless Drug stores in California and I was sent to Sav-on Drugs #3269 in Montebello, California. My...