Boone Drug is looking for special deliveries made more than 50 years ago.

Boone Drug Downtown opened in 1919 and, before it was a pharmacy, it had a doctor’s office upstairs.

“We’re looking for people who were born upstairs and we want to highlight them,” Carrie Phillips said. “We’re planning a celebration for the store being 90 years old.”

The doctor’s offices continued to operate through the 1960s, with three “hospital rooms” that the patient’s families supplied firewood for heating, and several other businesses have been located upstairs.

Phillips said they knew of at least one person who had been born outside the drug store, but they also want people who might have stories of the building’s early history.

Joe Miller, the fourth owner of the business, was born outside the store and his interest in selling art supplies blossomed into Cheap Joe’s Art Stuff.

The Boone Drug Downtown is one of 12 locations in the locally owned chain. It was founded by Dr. George Kelly Moose as a pharmacy and soda fountain, with a lunch grill added in the 1950s.

Anyone with information on Boone Drug births can call Phillips at (828) 355-3351.