GREENSBURG, Kansas, May 2, 2007 – Greensburg, Kansas, population 1,500. The town's claim to fame is the largest hand-dug well in the world. But it's here on Main Street, inside Hunter Drugstore, that we found the town's icon of sorts.

Richard Huckriede started working here in 1952 when he was just 23 years old.

"Our small soft drinks were five cents when I started," Huckriede said.

While the prices might have changed, a small drink is now 50 cents, not much else has.

"I have so many people say this takes us back to our younger days," Huckriede said.

Hunter Drug and Huckriede are small-town Kansas at its best - a slower pace, a step back in time when life wasn't as hectic or high tech.

Richard still makes thick malts and milkshakes, even 400s and cherry cokes, the old fashioned way, just as he did when he started working here some 55 years ago.

But if you are visiting Greensburg to walk to the bottom of the hand-dug well, you'll find Huckriede there too - well, a life-sized picture of him anyway - and a display of how life used to be in simpler times.

But it's not just the museum. Huckriede graces the pages of the city newspaper, starring in a contest for residents to guess where his picture was taken.

But for the self-titled "Oldest Soda Jerk in the World," the small-town fame isn't what he enjoys most. No, he says it's the people he's gotten to meet and know over the past 55 years.

"A lot of these youngsters come in, then come in with their husbands and wives and children and grandchildren," Huckriede said.

Hunter Drug may not be the attraction that put Greensburg on the map, but its charm and old-fashion flavor is what keeps people coming back.

"So many people say, 'We don't think we've been to Greensburg until we've been to the drug store,'" Huckriede said.