Horton’s Pharmacy: A Hub of Mariemont’s Past

By Carol Sanger

This is a story about drugs... and sports... and betting. With a little boy-meets-girl romance thrown in for good measure. It’s an intricate web, and it all happened here in Mariemont not all that long ago.

It began innocently enough. A boy was looking for a way to earn a few bucks after school let out. His name was Jerry Jones, then having drawn its clientele from Mariemont and surrounding areas when it first opened in the old town center in the 1940s. In the front part of the store was a Graeter’s ice cream bar, in the rear was the pharmacy where the eponymous Mr. Horton dispensed prescriptions and sold pharmaceuticals from a raised counter that allowed him to survey his entire domain.

Denny Place resident Marie Huenefeld recalls, “I worked at Horton’s in summer during college and one Christmas holiday break. Such a great place. I had such a great time! Three pharmacists, two pharmacy students, one dental student, three elderly gentlemen who delivered. I should have paid them! Definitely the hub of the Village. We went there in grade school when Graeter’s soda fountain was in there! Yum!”

But it wasn’t just the girls who were

“Back in the ‘50s and ‘60s, Horton’s had a glass