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« : April 15, 2009, 12:20:21 PM »

Nobody questions here in Fairfax where the $2 bill comes from.  I believe anybody that has been in The Fairfax Pharmacy and was given change, somewhere along the way, received a $2 bill. 

I was up at Minors Store today and gave Kim a couple $2 bills and right away, she said, I know where you've been.

Well, it may not be a big thing, but enough is enough.  I decided to go to the source and ask the man himself, Rick Hogle.

Always willing to stop and provide you with any information you might need, after he had waited on a couple of customers, I got the answer to my question.  Rick got the idea from Mac, his former employer at The Milton Prescription Center where he worked before he opened his own business here in Fairfax.  He said that Mac used to give them out and called it "Free Advertising", so when Rick opened his Pharmacy here in Fairfax he did the same.

Where did Mac get the idea??

The story goes that somewhere along our east coast, sailors on shore leave and looking for a good time customarily invaded a small town.  Locals fed up with their rowdiness complained to the Navy.  So the Navy paid its sailors in two dollar bills the next month. 

When the bills flooded the town, storekeepers had a change of heart.

And now you know the rest of the story of Rick's Pharmacy and The $2 Bill.
« : April 15, 2009, 12:29:20 PM Henry »

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« #1 : April 15, 2009, 03:02:46 PM »

I never knew that Fairfax Pharmacy gave $2 bills as change. We get all of our perscriptions filled at Fairfax Pharmacy, but I guess it is so rare for me to pay for anything with cash that I never even had the chance to contemplate why I received a $2 bill as change.
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« #2 : April 15, 2009, 06:53:54 PM »

They are also famous for giving out 50-cent pieces, and the one dollar coins.

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« #3 : April 16, 2009, 06:04:26 AM »

I put some $2 bills in the Easter eggs (along with candy) for our grandchildren to find.  They really look forward to getting those bills. 
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