Longtime Manteca pharmacist Ed Larimer is helping student pharmacists at the University of the Pacific in Stockton much the same as the assistance he received from early Manteca druggists Lester Wilson and Ted Poulos. Larimer grew up in Manteca and remembers when the population was 3,000 residents. He mowed lawns on both sides of the 100 block of Lincoln Avenue where he took care of both front and rear lawns complete with edging them for only $1.“I can remember when the open SSJID irrigation ditches ran through town until they were covered,” Larimer said. “ We would go through the ditches – play in the pipes and play cowboys and Indians and run into the ‘hobos’ as they were called back then.”When in high school he was hired by Les Wilson, then the owner of the Manteca Drug Store in the 100 block of West Yosemite Avenue, to work as a stock boy.