St. John’s Street is one of the oldest in Katowice. Its buildings are mostly well-preserved eclectic townhouses from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. It owes its name to the statue of the saint visible near the junction with Staromiejska Street, placed here in 1816. The present sculpture is its replica. In the 1960s, the AMFORA drugstore opened its doors on the ground floor of the corner tenement house. At the time, it was one of the best-stocked shops of its kind, successfully competing with the nearby department stores -–Zenit, PDT or Skarbek. The Amfora drugstore operated almost until the end of the 20th century. Nowadays, there are completely different retail premises on the site.