Miller's Rexall Drugs is a landmark
hoodoo and homeopathic remedy shop in
South Downtown Atlanta
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["Need a Job? Losing Your House? Who Says Hoodoo Can't Help?", Cameron McWhirter, ''Wall Street Journal'', December 28, 2010]
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Owner Donald Miller opened a Rexall
Rexall was a chain of American drugstores, and the name of their store-branded products. The stores, having roots in the federation of United Drug Stores starting in 1903, licensed the Rexall brand name to as many as 12,000 drug stores across t ...
pharmacy in 1960 and moved to the present location at 87 Broad St. in 1965.[''Conjure in African American Society'', Jeffrey E. Anderson, p.190]
/ref> Miller, descended from Polish Jews, has been cited as an example that one does not have to be a hoodoo practitioner in order to sell hoodoo supplies. The store originally opened as an ordinary pharmacy but due to customer requests for homeopathic and hoodoo remedies, Miller started carrying them.[
In 1994, then-owner Richard Miller (Donald Miller's nephew) began a website and by 2010 Miller's Internet sales had risen to over $1 million per year, far exceeding sales from walk-in customers.][
In 1999, ]Paul McCartney
Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer, songwriter and musician who gained global fame with the Beatles, for whom he played bass guitar and the piano, and shared primary songwriting and lead vocal duties with John ...
happened upon the drugstore, saw "Run Devil Run" bath salts in the display window and bought them. He named his next album '' Run Devil Run'' after the salts. The store is pictured on the album cover but with the name "Miller's" changed to "Earl's".
Miller's is one of several businesses still remaining in a block of Broad Street struggling to reverse a decline. The block was at the heart of what had been a busy shopping district including the flagship Rich's store, but which has continued to decline since the 1960s."South downtown must be fixed for Atlanta to thrive", Thomas Wheatley, ''Creative Loafing'', November 3, 2011
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References
External links
*"Doc Miller's 21st century hoodoo drugstore", ''Hoodoo and Conjure Quarterly'', Issue #2 (print only
summary online
Official website"Medicines and Curios"
sister e-commerce website an
"Miller's Mysteries"
blog
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Pharmacies of the United States
Buildings and structures in Atlanta
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