At Rayne's founding, Dr. James Morris built his Star Drug Store here in 1883, and it subsequently became Alphonse Duclos Drugs, housing both telegraph and postal services. It later became People's Drug Store under Dr. John P. Mauboules and Dr. Marion Young, before progressive druggist Arnold Kahn acquired it in 1914. Compounding his own nostrums, Kahn turned People's into Rayne's social center with a soda fountain featuring his unique pink cochineal nectar in 1926, and he introduced air conditioning to Rayne in 1941. Sold by his son Alfred Kahn, People's was operated from 1981 to 1996 by Randal Girouard.