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Once common in department, discount, and drug stores, I'm afraid they are a disappearing breed!
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Who remembers "lunch counters"?
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I remember them well, for some reason I loved the Tuna sandwiches that seemed to be on every lunch counters menu.
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i remember as a kid we used to go to woolworth's and they had the best fries i ever had. Kmart used to have a lunch counter too... and i loved their pudding--- they used to have breakfast with easter bunny/santa there
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Oh yeah. My mother in law used to work at one.
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I used to love the counter at Woolworth's. They had the best burgers and milkshakes.
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Yeah, one of those quaint niceties of the past. McCrory's also had them. It was part of the downtown shopping experience to have lunch in the "five & dime."
Damn, just remembered it was at the Woolworth's lunch counter in a smaller suburban store that I shared a cherry Coke with a girl. OMG! I musta lived in Mayberry.
The old Walgreen's downtown stores actually had a full restaurant on the mezzanine floor. I remember that in New Orleans and Miami.
Damn, just remembered it was at the Woolworth's lunch counter in a smaller suburban store that I shared a cherry Coke with a girl. OMG! I musta lived in Mayberry.
The old Walgreen's downtown stores actually had a full restaurant on the mezzanine floor. I remember that in New Orleans and Miami.
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even older, i remember the huge mall in center city philly used to have an automat!!! I thought it was soooo cool to pick what you wanted and shove coins and coins in... then watch a "magic hand" replace it! lol
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I think I recall my Mama taking me somewhere that had lunch counters.
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As a small child I remember one at the Rexall Drug Store & certainly the Woolworth's counter.
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wants2laugh wrote:even older, i remember the huge mall in center city philly used to have an automat!!! I thought it was soooo cool to pick what you wanted and shove coins and coins in... then watch a "magic hand" replace it! lol
They had the best baked beans I've ever had in my life but, alas, they are gone with the breaking wind.
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I remember them a lot when I would visit my family in South Carolina. Matter fact, I still think it's there at this one particular store that we would go to.
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I vaguely remember them from early childhood.
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I don't remember them at all.
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Mom and I went to a couple Woolworths in Chicago, but I don't recall a lunch counter.
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