Then and now: Same building, different businesses

Sign ordinances might prohibit such color today. Photo/Bill Kingman

Sign ordinances might prohibit such color today. Photo/Bill Kingman

Constructed in the 1930s as the Bal Bijou cornering Highway 50, this building featured a dance hall. It hosted  many prominent dance bands and performers into the 1950s.

The photo above is from 1965 in a later incarnation as Nay’s Bijou Center Market.

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Photo/Bob Rockwell Collection

By the 1970s, it had become one of the three local Inks Markets.

In the succeeding years, it housed the Liquor Barn, followed by Smart & Final. Long’s Drugs opened one of their South Shore locations there in 2004, and today it is CVS Pharmacy.

— Bill Kingman

It was a Long's drug store until that company was bought by CVS. Photo/Bill Kingman

It was a Long’s drug store until that company was bought by CVS. Photo/Bill Kingman

In 2004, the building was a nondescript blue. Photo/Bill Kingman

In 2004, the building was a nondescript blue. Photo/Bill Kingman

This is one of three CVS stores on the South Shore. Photo/Bill Kingman

Today this is one of three CVS stores on the South Shore. Photo/Bill Kingman