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dixiegrrrrl

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24. I am in a very small deep sputhern town also.

Reply to Honeycombe8 (Reply #23)

Sun Nov 25, 2012, 10:39 PM

Nov 2012

Miles and miles from anything big.

There are "dollar Tree" stores here, I guess the inflation version of the 5 and dime.

It still gives me a shock to see a regular Hershey Bar selling for 1.00, tho.

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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