[PW] ? 1970s Prescription Pill Bottles

Michael Hart hart at pglaf.org
Fri Feb 16 12:30:13 PST 2007


I might have some back to 85. . .if any help, but Sunday?

Doesn't anyone plan ahea
d any more???

mh

On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Robert Sullivan wrote:

> For use in a movie being shot locally, we need to find a pill bottle
> (or image thereof) from ca. 1978.  They need it by Sunday, and it will
> be in close-up so it needs to be realistic.  This would probably be
> something with a typed label, as opposed to (for example) what is
> shown in the Physician's Desk Reference.
>
> I remember aspirin bottles but am a little fuzzy on what prescriptions
> looked like.  The person I spoke with at the nearby National Bottle
> Museum thought they should be plastic.  There's a drugstore museum at
> an area college, but no one is answering there.
>
> Perhaps a movie of that era in which someone is taking pills?  If I
> could think of a title I'd see what we have on the shelf.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions!
>
> -- 
> Bob Sullivan
> Schenectady Digital History Archive
> <http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/>
> Schenectady County (NY) Public Library
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