WHATEVER HAPPENED TO NATE GOLDSTONE?
By Bob Reiss From the Re-Echo, Summer 2005

Nate Goldstone was the proprietor of Brookside Drug Store from 1941 until 1988.  The drug store was located at Excelsior Blvd. and Brookside Ave.  It had a real soda fountain.  During the 1950s and '60s it served coffee to businessmen in the morning, sandwiches to the working women at lunch, and chocolate sundaes to the kids after school.  Finally, with the discount stores and grocery stores putting in prescription departments, Nate decided to go out of business.  He liquidated, sold the building, and retired.

Nate moved to Monrovia, California and lives hear his younger son; his granddaughter and grandson are in college there.  Rain falling in California has caused homes to fall away onto the homes below.  With this he has concluded that Minnesota is not all that bad a place to live.  He has joined the Lions Club out there, but still misses the friends he has in Minnesota - he sends his regards.
 

Nate keeps in touch with St. Louis Park through the Re-Echo.  He recently wrote the following memories that were triggered by the El Patio article:

I watched Culbertson's change hands and George Faust trying his had at running it, followed by Anchor Inn, followed by Boniorno's.  That was a good restaurant.  Mr. Bongierno, however, overextended himself when he remodeled the building.  It seems he made some serious structural changes to the building that too much of his capital to bring the building up to code.  The restaurant started out a winner, but David had to cut quality in order to save money.  I was there long enough to see Duggan's Steakhouse come to life.


 

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