Our Mission Statement
Our Goal is for Pfaff Pharmacy to be a Caring Professional Independent Pharmacy that continually strives to offer our customers the highest level of Personal Service in our region, along with competitive prices, and a customer - friendly staff who cares about the people it serves.
Store Hours: Mondays - Fridays 8:30 - 8:00 and Saturdays 8:30 - 5:00. Closed Sunday & Holidays.
Your Locally Owned Pharmacy on Washington Avenue since 1923….
HETZEL DRUG COMPANY MOVES TO NEW STORE Grand Haven Tribune 31 August 1923 Real Business Section Springing Up in Eleven Hundred Block
The Hetzel Drug company, for some time located on Seventh street just north of Washington street in the busy East End Business section, will move to their new location in the Van I Witt building in the eleven hundred block on Washington street. Moving operations are now under way and the drug store will undoubtedly be settled and ready for business by tomorrow.
Far East End Business Men Have Built up Fine Stores Our On Washington Ave.
Grand Haven Tribune 28 September 1923.
Business men in the newly grown for East End business district have shown their faith in the future of the place by putting a great deal of money into buildings there even though it is quite removed from the usual trade centers….
The Hetzel Drug store was moved from its Seventh street location to this point and the management reports that it is doing very well…
The proprietors all report a good patronage and feel sure that the locations may some day be included in the main business district of a greater Grand Haven which may extend from the river front down Washington avenue for a number of blocks.
Pfaff Purchased the near 70 Year-old Pharmacy and Soda Fountain in 1953 from Carl Hetzel.Grand Haven Tribune 11 April 1982
He framed and still has the first dollar he took in on that day-and that first customer is still one of the regulars at the morning and evening coffee hours.
It took years before the store because accepted as Pfaff’s and not Hetzel’s. Pfaff’s friendly, personal, caring manner became the essence of the business where customers are addressed by their first names.
Cliff sells to Dwayne; will stay as pharmacist.Grand Haven Tribune 1980
For 16 years, Dwayne Bloemers has served and greeted customers at Pfaff Pharmacy , 1125 Washington , and now he is the owner of the business.
Bloemers is a 1970 graduate of Ferris College, Big Rapids, and was graduated from Grand Haven High School in 1965. He started working at Pfaff’s in 1964.
PFAFF PHARMACY Where Friends, politics and prescriptions are mixed.The Sunday Chronicle, Muskegon, Michigan 11 April 1982
Pfaff Pharmacy is more than a drug store. To its patrons it is a friend, counselor, family and good neighbor.
…customers often compare memories of Hetzel and the narrow dimly lit drug store, which was less than half the size of the present store. They recall the marble topped soda fountain, traditional tables, and window with bars for the pharmacist…
The store has been remodeled, enlarged and modernized four times without sacrificing its neighborhood flavor.
PFAFF’S: 70 years of coffee and comradry
The Sunday Chronicle, Muskegon, Michigan 23 August 1987
Folks who think the fate of the world is decided in blue-chip board rooms or paneled senate chambers have never been to Pfaff Pharmacy, where soda fountain philosophers gather daily to debate global problems…
a place where tradition abounds, …
the store has kept up with the times and the competition…
The favorite fountain
They serve up a lot more than food at this old fashioned soda barMuskegon Chronicle 7 June 1999
Owner Dwayne Bloemers and Cliff Pfaff, a former owner…have made it their goal over the years to maintain an atmosphere of when life was simpler. “This is the way it will always be,” said Bloemers regarding the fountain. “You’re not going to make money from it, far from it,” Pfaff said, “but, money isn’t everything.”
Pharmacy owner celebrates two anniversaries Dwayne Bloemers began working at Pfaff in 1965 and bought shop in 1980Grand Rapids Press 8 May 2005
The pharmacy, one of the oldest in the city, has been in operation for more than 83 years. Bloemers is only the third owner.
The 3000-square-foot store sits on Washington Street, two blocks east of busy U.S. 31. The pharmacy is well-known locally for its 1930’s style soda fountain,…
“We know our customers by name and will take the time to answer all their questions and get them what they need. We even still deliver prescriptions.”
The Story is still being written...
The Staff of Pfaff Pharmacy 04 January 2010
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