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ROLAND PARK NEWS Tuxedo Pharmacy at 76: Prescription for Spring 2012 Neighborhood Pharmacy Has Not Expired Volume By Kathy Hudson “It cost $2,500, and I can tell you Dad Neighborhood pharmacies didn’t have it,” says Harold, the second Forty-Five once dotted the greater Davidov son. In 1942, Louis Davidov Roland Park area. University bought the pharmacy building, a shingled Parkway Pharmacy operated home with two apartments upstairs above This Issue’s at 100 West University the store. Highlights Parkway, where One World In a cloth-bound ledger that still sits on Café is today. Wagner & an office shelf, a normal day in those early Wagner operated on Cold years shows 13 prescriptions filled, each KidsView Spring Lane, inside the for about $1.50. double doors of today’s Page 6 Roland Park Bagel shop. “This was how you were supposed to make a living,” laughs Harold, who today Acorn Hill at Morgan & Millard’s Roland Park Pharmacy occupied the Robert E corner of the Roland Park Lee Park Shopping Center, where Page 10 Petit Louis is today. Tuxedo Pharmacy sat between the Word of Mouth Hat Rack and Graul’s (yes, Graul’s) in the Tuxedo Page 12 Park shopping center on Tour the Roland Avenue. Brothers Harold and Arnold Thanks to the Davidov Davidov have spent their Footpaths of lives at Tuxedo Pharmacy. family, dedicated owners Roland Park Photo: Ann Stuzin of Tuxedo Pharmacy for 76 Page 18 years, the prescription for a neighborhood drugstore has not expired. While Home Sales others are no longer, Tuxedo Pharmacy thrives Page 22 where it has always been on Roland Avenue. Tuxedo Pharmacy is now twice the size of its original Calvert School footprint and operates a second pharmacy at Green Louis “Doc” Davidov bought Tuxedo Pharmacy in 1936. Kids Give Spring Station. It is one of a handful of independently Historic photo courtesy of the Davidov family Healthy owned pharmacies still in business in Baltimore. While Tuxedo is a business, like many of the handles the business side of the operation, while Page 24 individually owned stores in the area, it functions as co-owner Arnold fills their father’s shoes managing the pharmacy department. “In order to survive,” says Book Nook more than a business. It is a neighborhood hub. The Davidov family has served four generations of Roland Harold, “it became imperative to have a two-person Page 25 Park families and is tightly woven, through schools, operation here.” business and friendship, to the community. No strangers were these two to the family business Our Backyard where everyone worked. Betty Davidov worked Chickens “I’ve worked here all of my life,” says Arnold, the oldest of Louis and Betty Davidov’s three children. hand in hand with her husband in the store. She Page 28 “It’s really been a social experience. I feel like part of was responsible for the expansion of the cosmetics the community. It’s an extended family.” department, which became one of the best in town. As boys, Harold and Arnold did everything from In 1936, during the Depression, Louis Davidov sweeping floors, serving ice cream at the soda purchased the business from its previous owner, a Mr. Warren. Continued on page 16 Editors’ Notes Roland Park News By Martha Marani and Anne Stuzin and Neighborhoods: Elements of Successful With apologies to Lord Community Design, which draws Volume 45 Tennyson*, in the spring our connections between the planning Spring 2012 fancy lightly turns to thoughts and design of a neighborhood and its success as a community. The work of of flowers, festivals, fellowship Table of Contents and other favorite Roland Park former Baltimore Sun photographer traditions. We welcome the A. Aubrey Bodine is captured in 1 Tuxedo Pharmacy at 76: Prescription for Bodine’s City: The Photograpy of Neighborhood Pharmacy has Not Expired first daffodils along Stony Run Park, the strawberry festival at A. Aubrey Bodine, which will be 2 Editors’ Notes Roland Park Presbyterian Church discussed by his daughter Jennifer B. Bodine at the Roland Park Library on 3 Art Happenings and the community Spring Celebration event at the Woman’s Club. We March 31. 6 KidsView think about strolls, cycles and even spring Whatever your fancy, enjoy the fullness of 7 Calendar and Announcements vegetables—the Roland Park Path Walk, the spring, Roland Park! � next ciclovía and Petit Louis’ warm asparagus 9 Historic Neighborhood Institutions are the *Alfred, Lord Tennyson penned “Locksley Hall” salad! We plan for planting, inspired by in 1842 Backbone of Roland Park hanging baskets of petunias from Schneider’s 10 Acorn Hill at Robert E Lee Park Hardware and locally grown trees and shrubs from the Native Plant Sale. And, if you’re a 11 Spring Recipe: Broccolini with kid, you’re dusting off your lacrosse stick or Sweet Italian Sausage baseball mitt, just in time for March kick-offs Join the Roland Park News Team! 12 Word of Mouth: Recommended Contractors of local rec programs. We’re looking for an Advertising Manager. If you’d like to help promote 18 Tour the Footpaths of Roland Park And that’s just a hint of what the spring season has to offer. This issue’s cover story by local businesses, please send an email 20 Bookends: How Does a Neighborhood Kathy Hudson celebrates the more-than-75- to [email protected]. The Become a Community? year tradition (no matter what the season) of responsibilities include serving as a Roland Park’s own neighborhood drugstore, liaison with existing advertisers and 21 Civic League Assumes Maintenance Tuxedo Pharmacy. It’s a wonderful walk identifying new ones. Responsibility down memory lane, compliments of the 21 Welcome New Neighbors! Davidov family. 22 Spring Recipe: Ramp Soup In “Art Happenings,” you’ll find information 22 Home Sales about the Evergreen 23 “Reflections on Combat” Museum & Library’s upcoming Edible 24 Calvert School Kids Give Healthy Evergreen series, which 25 The Book Nook includes gardening 28 Our Backyard Chickens workshops and cooking demonstrations. In The Roland Park 29 Garden Club Hosts Tour mid-April, the Woman’s 30 Book Nook, Jr. Club opens its doors Community Foundation to the community for an evening lecture by Invites You to Roland Parker Stuart Editorial Board: Martha Marani, Anne Stuzin and Ortel, who will suggest Celebrate Spring Henry “Chip” Mortimer ways to improve our Advertising Manager: Marni Toop outdoor spaces. Rarely Roland Park News is published quarterly by the Roland seen gardens in Roland Park Community Foundation, Park, Homeland and The Woman’s Club of Roland Park 5115B Roland Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21210 Guilford will be on Telephone: (410) 464-2525 4500 Roland Avenue FAX (410) 464-2533 display on May 20, E-mail: [email protected] when District IV of the Chair, Mary Page Michel; Vice Chair, Ellen Webb; Treasurer, Federated Garden Clubs John Kevin; Secretary, Open of Maryland hosts a Join us for food, drink and merriment, and Garden Tour. Graphic Production: DesignConcept.com reconnect with friends and neighbors. Printer: Swanson Graphics Should April showers Deadlines for copy, including announcements and calendar come our way, curl up items, are February 1 for Spring issue, May 1 for Summer with newly published issue, August 1 for Fall issue, and November 1 for Look for your invitation in the mail Winter issue. books by local authors. Proceeds will go to the and check on the Roland Park website Sidney Brower has Roland Park (www.RolandPark.org) for the date written Neighbors Community Foundation and other details 2 students (with valid ID), and children (5 and under). For more Art Happenings information, call 410-516-0341, email evergreenmuseum@jhu. edu or visit www.museums.jhu.edu. Tom Hall will be honored for his 30th anniversary as music director of the Baltimore Choral Arts Society at the Ruby Cabaret Upcoming events include: fundraiser on April 13 at 7 p.m. in the Grand Lodge Ballroom (300 International Drive, Hunt Valley). New York cabaret singer n March 11 through May 27, with an opening reception March Eric Comstock will headline the program, which will also includes 11, 1 to 4 p.m., Tai Hwa Goh: Lullaby in Evergreen. Tai Hwa a dinner, live and silent auctions and special surprises. Tickets Goh is a Korean-born printmaker and paper artist living in the are $150 and can be purchased by New Jersey Palisades. As Evergreen’s 10th artist-in-residence, she calling 410-523-7070 or visiting will transform the mansion’s grand main staircase into a three- www.baltimorechoralarts.org. dimensional sculpture using enlarged, cut and reworked hand waxed prints inspired by the museum and library collections. On May 6 at 3 p.m., Hall will Admission is free with paid museum admission and the lead the Symphonic Chorus exhibition is on view as part of the guided tour. Reservations are and Orchestra, the Peabody Children’s Chorus, and four vocal requested: [email protected] or 410-516-0341. soloists, including Thom King, n March 11 through September 30, with an opening reception in Mendelssohn’s “Elijah.” This March 11, 1 to 4 p.m., Alix Aymé: European Perception and powerful finale to this celebratory Asian Poeticism. This is the first museum exhibition devoted season will be presented at Goucher to the career of Alix Aymé (French, 1894–1989), an influential College’s Kraushaar Auditorium participant in the promotion of Paris-born modernism in the era (1021 Dulaney Valley Road). A between the world wars. It presents an unparalleled opportunity “Choral Conversation,” sponsored to study the artist’s development over nearly four decades, by Bank of America, will precede the from her early works under the tutelage of French Nabi painter concert at 2 p.m.