It is hard to believe how time quickly marches on. It was on this date, eleven years ago, that an iconic uptown Susanville landmark was destroyed by fire. Fortunately, for me, I had moved out of the second floor  of the building only seven months before the fire.

The building was the home to the Spalding Drug Store for many years, from the time it was built in 1907, until it closed in 1967. Looks can be deceiving for it is actually two buildings. How everything came to be was accidental in nature, which we explore its origins in the near future.

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