Thank you all for record breaking business during the 2021 State Fair! We are now closed except f Open for tours by appointment.
Tour of museum and ice cream soda are included in your visit. The tour of Hook's Drug Store Museum includes many of the memorabilia from the old Hook's Drug Stores, a convenience store, and soda bar. Hours during the 2021 Indiana State Fair are: Wed thru Sun WTHSun. 9am-9pm. Fair is closed Mondays and Tuesdays.
Operating as usual
Super excited to remind everyone that Hook's Drug Store Museum and Soda Fountain will be open this weekend, Oct 7-9, from 11am-4:30pm. Admission to the museum is free, however the State Fair does charge a $10/vehicle parking cost during events.
We are opening for the 2022 CanAm Flyball Dog Tournament happening in the West Pavilion this weekend. Some free parking is available a short distance away outside the fairgrounds.
Hook's Drug Store Museum and Soda Fountain will be open Oct. 7-9, 2022, for the NAFA CanAm Flyball Classic. Our open hours for those dates are 11am - 4:30pm.
Stop by to see us at Hook's, and catch some Flyball dog races directly across from our building (West Pavilion), at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. http://www.nafacanam.com/location.html
Parking on the fairgrounds is $10/vehicle. Admission to Hooks is free.
*Iced Mocha Coffee Float pictured, available for purchase at our soda fountain along with many other ice cream and soda treats.
*Hook's has no plans to open again for the remainder of 2022. Stop by for an Old Fashioned Ice Cream Soda while you can.
Excited to Share that the Hook’s Drugstore Historic Marker David Steele worked on researching and coordinating with the State of Indiana on behalf of the Bates -Hendricks Neighborhood have been completed and installed!! The site is 1101 S. East Street, where John Hook opened his first drugstore in 1900. The original building was razed during widening of S. East Street many years ago.
David spent many hours carefully documenting source material for every word on the markers. Thanks to his research, David was able to highlight some lessor known but very important history about the early leadership of Hook’s in regard to desegregating their lunch counters following WWII.
The Bates - Hendricks Neighborhood is tentatively planning a celebration and “unveiling” party for October 21st, at, or very near the marker site. Please hold this date on your calendar to attend if you like! More details will be shared as they are available!
Hook's Drugstore Museum and Soda Fountain has short term employment opportunities during the Fair!
So much fun, its almost like being...... At the Fair!
The Hook's Museum is a 501c3 charitable organization dedicated to maintaining and promoting a cherished Hoosier tradition since 1966
The 2022 Indiana State Fair is right around the corner. July 29-Aug. 21, this year. Closed Monday and Tuesdays.
As one of the few vendors on the fairgrounds to offer coffee on our menu, Hook's is excited to participate in the 2022 Taste of the State Fair with our new featured item, the Iced Mocha Coffee Float. Our other soda fountain menu items are still available too.
We look forward to your visit.
if you missed the recent broadcast / podcast on Hoosier History Live about the history of Hook's and Haag's Drugstores, click this link to listen: https://hoosierhistorylive.org/.../2022-01-22-Hooks-Haags...
Host Nelson Price welcomes guest David Steele, Board Member of Hook's Drugstore Museum who has done recent research on Hook's history to support the new Historic Marker at the site of the original Hook's Drugstore, at 1101 South East St. Call-in guests on the show includes Hook Drug Inc. retiree Mark A. Varnau!
Listen to ‘Hook’s and Haag: drug stores once iconic in Indiana’ live on WICR 88.7 fm Sat. Jan. 22 noon to one ET or stream at www.hoosierhistorylive.org. Hook’s and Haag Drug were the primary drug stores in Indianapolis for much of the 1900’s. Our guest is David Steele. WICR Society of Indiana Pioneers Hook's Drug Store Museum Bates-Hendricks Terri Gorney Lehman
History of Hook’s and Haag’s Drugstores will be discussed on upcoming Hoosier History Live radio program this coming January 22nd!
Please mark your calendar to tune into “Hoosier History Live”, the radio show hosted by Nelson Price, on WICR-FM (88.7) on Saturday Jan. 22 when he will be focusing on Hook’s and Haag’s drug stores history. They are normally live for one hour, at 12 noon on Saturdays. Each week they focus on different aspects of Hoosier History.
The last 20 minutes of the broadcast are open to call-in questions, or comments.
Hope you can join in to listen!
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Hook's Soda Fountain t-shirts are available from the United State of Indiana t-shirt Company. Hook's Drug Store Museum will receive 15% of all Hook's t-shirt sales. These would make a great Christmas Gift for anyone who remembers Hook's Drug Store or loves our museum! Buy Yours Now!
Only today and tomorrow left of the 2021 Indiana State Fair! Make your final purchases now and head to the register at Hooks Drug Store Museum and Soda Fountain.
Hooks is open 9am-9pm
Iced coffee floats, root beer floats and old-fashioned candy sales are hot and stock is going quick!
Our runaway best selling ice cream soda flavor this year! Fresh brewed iced coffee, with any flavor syrup you might like (chocolate, vanilla, or cherry are popular choices). We still do all the traditional flavors as well. 5 more days of the 2021 State Fair, ending Sunday, August 22nd!
Over 3 million people have visited since we first opened in 1966! One of the longest running and top drugstore museums worldwide. Come out during the Fair to see our marvelous collection and enjoy wonderful old time soda fountain and candy treats!
It’s a beautiful cool Sunday morning at the Fair, and the Museum is open and ready to go! Record day yesterday, expecting another busy day as people take advantage of near perfect weather. The Fair will be closed Monday and Tuesday, then open for for our final week. Come on out!
The Hook’s Museum is very fortunate to have this rare Eli Lilly cabinet. Lilly only offered this cabinet for a few years, in the late 1880’s, as a premium to any pharmacy that ordered at least $50 of product. The cabinet is even filled with a selection of antique Lilly products.
Made of paper mache, sculptures like this were designed for decorative advertising to be used in drug stores.
Come visit us during the Indiana State Fair until August 22, to see in person.
*Closed Monday and Tuesday
Made of paper mache, sculptures like this were designed for decorative advertising to be used in drug stores.
Come visit us during the Indiana State Fair until August 22, to see in person.
*Closed Monday and Tuesday
This is where it all started, when John Hook opened his original store at 1101 S. East St., in Indianapolis at the turn of the twentieth Century. The building was torn down years ago, but, the interior cabinets survive, and today are installed in the candy and gift area of the Hook’s Drugstore Museum!
Large advertising sculptures for old patent medicines. The elephant is advertising Hamlins Wizard Oil. Hamlin was one of the old-time Medicine Show sellers, starting with horse and wagon, and holding night time entertainment shows to hawk his products from town to town. He even famously employed a young James Whitcomb Riley for a couple of seasons in the 1870’s. Before anyone knew of his poetry, he sang, played instruments, drew caricatures for people, and told stories. All part of Greenfield Indiana’s own Riley honing his craft to eventually become the most popular poet in America in the 19th Century.
Watching these guys work making ice cream treats and phosphates is amazing! Our coffee float a huge seller this year!
What’s your favorite memory of visiting the Hook’s Drugstore Museum and Soda Fountain?
My favorite part of volunteering every year is hearing people tell wonderful stories about coming to the Fair and visiting as a child, then later bringing their kids, and eventually their grandchildren!
Check out this artifact at the Hook’s Drugstore Museum! Zeno gum company originally made all the Wrigley branded gums for William Wrigley, when he first got started in the gum business (as a giveaway for his baking powder products in 1892). Zeno, not Wrigley was the company that invented the “Juicy Fruit” and “Spearmint” flavors that are Wrigley mainstays to the current day. Zeno also was also the first company to figure out machines that could automatically wrap and package individual sticks of gum. Prior to this time, each stick had to be painstakingly wrapped by hand, making gum a fairly expensive luxury. Wrigley found the gum giveaways he purchased from Zeno so popular, in 1893 he gave up the baking powder and moved to selling gum full time. He continued however to buy all the gum products he sold from Zeno until he finally bought the company and their factories and dissolved the Zeno name in 1911. This Zeno machine made its debut at the 1893 St Louis Worlds Fair, and represented the first practical coin operated gum machine, another Zeno innovation.
Butler School of Pharmacy students are here at Hooks Drug Store Museum today until 5pm giving free blood pressure screenings and stress ball giveaways while they last.
Come on by if you're in the area!
Purdue and Manchester University will be here next Friday and Saturday, 8/13-14, 2021, doing the same.
Rock Candy at Hook’s during the Fair!
“Show Globes” the oldest advertising object for drugstores. In Hook’s front window!
Story today in The Indianapolis Star, August 6, 2021. Hook’s Soda Fountain during the Fair rated one of 14 best date ideas!
Anyone who says “They just don’t make-em like they used to”, hasn’t been to Hook’s Soda Fountain! Hand dipped cones, sundaes and our famous ice cream sodas, as well as individually prepared old-time phosphates! This years run-away favorite, our coffee cream float!! Offered in Cherry, Vanilla, or Chocolate, of course! Serving 9am to 9pm every day the Fair is open.
One our favorite advertising pieces in the Museum! This is a large panel, very colorful, with great subject matter. As with many medicinal advertisements 100 years ago, the benefit or efficacy is exaggerated, but it’s easy to see why customers found this approach appealing. Hook’s features many wonderful old advertising posters all around the museum, and we also offer vintage style metal reproduction signs for sale in our gift shop! We are located in between the Home and Family Arts, and Expo Hall on the main Ave. Near 38th St entrance.
Please stop by during the Fair, we’d love to see you!
Specimen jars. Can you locate them inside the Hooks Museum? We're open during the 2021 Indiana State Fair if you'd like to try.
Open again, Wednesday, Aug. 4-Aug. 22, 9am-9pm. *Closed Monday and Tuesday
Got Leeches?……….
Hook's Drug Store Museum updated their information in their About section.
If you're interested in volunteering with Hooks Drug Store please attend our public information meeting to learn more.
When: Sept. 13, 6-7pm
Where:
Hooks Drug Store Museum
Indiana State Fairgrounds
1202 E. 38th St.
Indianapolis, IN 46205
Only a taste of the candy display available for purchase at Hooks Drug Store Museum on the Indiana State Fairgrounds.
July 30-Aug 22, 9am -9pm. *Closed Monday and Tuesday
Everyone get ready...Hooks is back and we're open 9am-9pm, July 30 - Aug. 22, 2021 for the Indiana State Fair!
*Closed Monday and Tuesdays
Lots of old favorites back in stock and Iced Coffee Floats as our new soda fountain treat and taste of the state fair item this year.
We can't wait to welcome everyone through our doors again! Hope to see you soon!
Everyone get ready...Hooks is back and we're open 9am-9pm, July 30 - Aug. 22, 2021 for the Indiana State Fair!
*Closed Monday and Tuesdays
Lots of old favorites back in stock and Iced Coffee Floats as our new soda fountain treat and taste of the state fair item this year.
We can't wait to welcome everyone through our doors again! Hope to see you soon!
Now Hiring for 2021 Indiana State Fair
July 30-August 22 : off Mondays and Tuesdays
The Hook’s Historic Drug Store Museum and Soda Fountain has been an exhibit on the Indiana State Fairgrounds since 1966. Set up to replicate a 1900s era drug store with authentic pharmacy antiques, Hook’s goal is to promote the history of pharmacy through immersive learning. Also featured at our exhibit is a one-of-a-kind Old-Fashioned Soda Fountain and Old Time Candy Store where we sell hard-to-find items, gifts and sundry items.
-Cashiers and Soda Fountain workers are needed for a full-time, limited to the State Fair duration position, which pays $9.00/hour + divided tips each shift (*for soda fountain work only) + $100 bonus in last paycheck, (*for bonus to apply, you must arrive on time for every shift assigned).
-Please contact Autumn Hunt, Hook’s Manager, if you are interested in this exciting opportunity, [email protected] and indicate your primary position interest (cashier or soda fountain) and availability for the dates above.
-If hired, you will receive two Hook’s t-shirts for a uniform, parking pass, and admissions tickets for the days you work that allows free entry into the fair premises.
*Positions are on a first-come-first serve basis until available positions are filled.
*Everyone will be trained to fill both cashier and soda positions.
*To be fully considered for the positions available, interested applicants need to be available to work at least 75% of the dates listed above for the Indiana State Fair.
*Hook’s open hours are 9am-9pm for dates listed. If scheduled to close, expect to remain after closing for cleanup.
Hook’s Historic Drug Store Museum and Soda Fountain
1202 E. 38th St., Indianapolis, IN 46205
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If you're interested in the history of Hooks as it relates to antique advertising, check out this video made on site featuring our two museum curators, Robert Hunt and Dan Russell.
Curators Robert Hunt and Dan Russell provide a tour of the Hook's Museum, focusing on antique artifacts that advertise.
Hook's Drug Store display window in the 1930 displaying graduation gifts, cards and flowers.
Happy Graduation to the Class of 2021from Hook's Drug Store Museum!
We plan to be open for the 2021 state fair! See the announcement from the fair today
INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana State Fair organizers announced Tuesday the fair is returning to the fairgrounds this summer. The 2021 Indiana State Fair will take place from Friday, July 30 to Sunday…
Happy belated Easter holiday from Hook's Drug Store Museum.
Easter candy and basket display photograph taken inside the Richmond, Indiana, Store #133, circa 1975.
Happy Valentine's Day from Hook's Drug Store Museum.
Hook's advert from the mid-50's, ci**rs and chocolates.
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Over 3 million people have visited since we first opened in 1966! One of the longest running and top drugstore museums worldwide. Come out during the Fair to see our marvelous collection and enjoy wonderful old time soda fountain and candy treats!
Watching these guys work making ice cream treats and phosphates is amazing! Our coffee float a huge seller this year!
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