Vintage 1949-1950s Dramamine Label 💊 Rare, Waggoner Drug Co Klamath Falls OR

Where Did Dramamine Come From? 💊 Vintage 1949-1950s Label, Waggoner Drug Co., Klamath Falls OR

Size: 2 1/2" x 2"

If you’ve ever tossed a box of Dramamine into your carry‑on, this little label shows where that story began. This is an original 1949–1950s Dramamine label from Waggoner Drug Co., a drug store at the corner of Ninth and Main in Klamath Falls, Oregon. 🏥💊

The label is a compact 2 1/2" x 2" and would originally have wrapped around a small bottle of Dramamine tablets dispensed by the pharmacist. It carries the DRAMAMINE name, dosage instructions and warnings for dimenhydrinate tablets, and Waggoner’s “COR. 9TH & MAIN STS. KLAMATH FALLS, ORE.” imprint. It’s the kind of practical, no‑nonsense design you expect from a hardworking neighborhood drug store in the early years of modern over‑the‑counter medicine.

Dramamine’s history starts just before this label’s time. In 1947 two Johns Hopkins allergists, Dr. Leslie Gay and Dr. Paul Carliner, were testing it as a hay-fever drug when a pregnant patient who had been carsick all her life found she could ride the trolley without trouble. The next year it went to sea: troops crossing the Atlantic on the General Ballou in rough weather, where only 2 percent of those who took it got seasick against a quarter of those who didn't. The discovery was announced in February 1949, and G.D. Searle put Dramamine on the market that year. Through the 1950s it became the go‑to travel companion for cruises, long car trips, train rides, and early airline flights.

Waggoner Drug Co. sold prescriptions from the corner of Ninth and Main, and this is one of the labels it packed Dramamine under - a Waggoner Drug Company prescription box dated June 5, 1950 turns up from the same store. This label is a tiny survivor from those years—a reminder of a time when you went to a single trusted counter for prescriptions, home remedies, and advice before setting off on a trip.

This piece is NOS—unused vintage stock that never made it onto a bottle. The warm paper tone, green printing, and simple border give it a timeless look that works beautifully framed, tucked into a printer’s tray, or displayed with antique pill bottles, tins, and pharmacy signs.

Approximate size: 2 1/2" x 2"
Era: 1949–1950s, early Dramamine period
Origin: Waggoner Drug Co., Klamath Falls, Oregon

It’s a fantastic addition for collectors of vintage pharmacy and medical advertising, Oregon and Pacific Northwest history, travel memorabilia, or anyone who loves small paper artifacts with outsized stories behind them. ✨🖼️