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Honeycombe8

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23. I do. I'm not THAT old, but from a small deep southern town.

Sun Nov 25, 2012, 10:12 PM

Nov 2012

It took a while for civilization to get to us. We were always behind in everything. And that's not necessarily a bad thing.

I went with my Paw Paw to the ice house to pick up a block of ice on occasion. It was a real, for sure, room, sitting alone outside. You go in, and it's full of big blocks of ice, like in the olden days. They pick them up themselves, the ice men, with those big fork like prongs.

We had one library, one Five and Dime store, one clothing store, one diner (the Busy Bee), one grocery store, one movie theater but that closed, one medical clinic (I was born in a neighboring town because our town didn't have a hospital). I'm talking about the white side of town. There was a black side of town, literally across the railroad tracks. I guess they had their own stores, since they weren't allowed in the white ones. Times were very different then.

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Who remembers...5-10-15 cent stores? [View all] dixiegrrrrl Nov 2012 OP

Cherry coke at the lunch counter at Ben Franklin. nt rrneck Nov 2012 #1

I remember Woolworths Five and Dime. I also remember penny candy. valerief Nov 2012 #2

Yes. "5-10-15 cent stores", AKA "five and dime", AKA "variety store" NYC_SKP Nov 2012 #3

Mine was an M.E. Moses derby378 Nov 2012 #5

We called 'em "dime stores". Prisoner_Number_Six Nov 2012 #4

Same here. Mid-west, I guess. Always got my baseball cards there, with the nasty stick of gum madinmaryland Nov 2012 #16

We had a Ben Franklin store that we called a dime store. Arkansas Granny Nov 2012 #6

My Mom always used to refer to Woolworths (and stores like it) as "dime stores" hlthe2b Nov 2012 #7

Old hardware stores are like that, too! dixiegrrrrl Nov 2012 #11

Five and Dime is what I remember LiberalEsto Nov 2012 #8

Yes, I remember Woolworth's and a couple of others, but I cannot remember the names. RebelOne Nov 2012 #20

The dime store. The Velveteen Ocelot Nov 2012 #9

Definitely remember the wood floors and the trading cards though I never bought them. n/t RebelOne Nov 2012 #21

I said I needed to go to the 'dimestore' the other day Viva_La_Revolution Nov 2012 #10

We had a "5 and Dime" store - I think it was a Woolworth's csziggy Nov 2012 #12

Yep! Kresge's five and dime as I remember it on High St. in Columbus: ohiosmith Nov 2012 #13

Robert Altman movie, "Come back to the five and dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean" Yavin4 Nov 2012 #14

We called it the "5 and 10." hay rick Nov 2012 #15

I remember a "dime store" from as late as the 1960s that had shelf after shelf struggle4progress Nov 2012 #17

Frank W. Woolworth's. Manifestor_of_Light Nov 2012 #18

In the 50s in Alliance, Nebraska, we had frogmarch Nov 2012 #19

I remember buying huge "crystal" ashtrays for my Mom at Christmas. dixiegrrrrl Nov 2012 #22

I do. I'm not THAT old, but from a small deep southern town. Honeycombe8 Nov 2012 #23

I am in a very small deep sputhern town also. dixiegrrrrl Nov 2012 #24

Sprouse-Reitz was a chain in several western states. JohnnyLib2 Nov 2012 #25

dime stores, I remember TGY Kali Nov 2012 #26

Ours were called pipi_k Nov 2012 #27

I worked for McCrory Corp. for a while in the late 80's. bluedigger Nov 2012 #28

I remember those. luv_mykatz Nov 2012 #29

They were "Five & Dimes" where I grew up in the 60's in smalltown Michigan... MiddleFingerMom Nov 2012 #30

Thank you for introducing me to that lovely voice. dixiegrrrrl Nov 2012 #32

I remember what my parents called "The five and dime" (Woolworth's I think), but... HopeHoops Nov 2012 #31

that was the routine for the Friday after Thanksgiving grasswire Nov 2012 #33