Central Drug Store in the Excelsior District will be closing its doors on July 15 after over 100 years. Owner Jerry Tonelli announced he will be retiring.

Central Drug Store, a community staple in San Francisco's Excelsior District since 1908, will permanently shut down at the end of the day on July 15, 2025.

Tonelli’s mother worked as a clerk, and his father, back from the service, was training to become a pharmacist. By 1947, the pair were married and, by the mid-1950s, Jerry Tonelli was born — the ...