| Katz Brothers Drug Company Kansas City, Kansas 1914- Mike and Isaac “Ike” Katz, founders of the drug store chain, as “The Cut-Rate Kings of Kansas City”, and by 1959, the Katz name and feline logo adorned stores in St. Louis, Oklahoma City, Des Moines, St. Joseph, Memphis, and Sioux City. That year, a new location in Overland Park, at 75th and Metcalf, was billed as the largest drug store on Earth, offering two stories of merchandise. Ike Katz was nine, and his younger brother Mike just a year old, when their family arrived in St. Paul, Minnesota, from Poland. Ike quit school at the age of 13, beginning the study of merchandising hands-on, as a “news butcher” on the Great Northern Railway. Ike peddled newspapers on trains traveling throughout the northwest United States. During the late 1890’s, the Klondike Gold Rush propelled the nation out of an economic depression, and taught Ike Katz the basics of commerce: He found he could sell not only newspapers, but postcards, blankets, straw mattresses, and souvenirs to men heading north in search of gold. The company would eventually become known as Skaggs, and then Osco, but the ubiquitous black cat logo of Katz Drugs lives in the memory of many a Kansas Citizen. |
| This advertising measuring cup Circa: 1950's has the famous cat image used by Katz Drug stores. |
| Came in 2 colors pink {girls} & blue {boys} |