Family-owned Central Drug Store in San Francisco closes its doors after serving the community since the early 1900s, with ...

Central Drug Store in the Excelsior District will be closing its doors on July 15 after over 100 years. Owner Jerry Tonelli announced he will be retiring.

Central Drug Store, a community staple in San Francisco's Excelsior District since 1908, will permanently shut down at the end of the day on July 15, 2025.

Jerry Tonelli talks to Mark Farrell outside Central Drug Store on Mission Street in the Excelsior. October 24, 2024. Photo by Kelly Waldron. “I think his campaign is fading fast. Most of the polling ...

He started working here in 1949 after he graduated from pharmacy school at UCSF. And he was a WW2 veteran," Jerry Tonelli, the pharmacist owner of Central Drug Store, told CBS News Bay Area.