When someone recently sent me this interior shot of Schwab’s Pharmacy on Sunset Blvd, they asked me if I thought that was Dick Haymes with his hands on Sidney Skolsky’s shoulders at the center of photo. I don’t know if that’s Haymes, but it looks like Skolsky to me. (Sidney Skolsky well-known column “From A Stool at Schwab’s” appeared in Photoplay magazine.) At any rate, it shows us how popular Schwab’s was. At one spot the crowd at the counter is three people deep and spills over into the retail area. I bet the energy in there was a tonic for people enduring the grind of trying to make it in Hollywood.

The auto-colorizer did a pretty good job of bring this vibrant scene to life.