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| | Subject: Who remembers "lunch counters"? Mon Sep 10, 2012 1:10 am | |
| Once common in department, discount, and drug stores, I'm afraid they are a disappearing breed! | |
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| | Subject: Re: Who remembers "lunch counters"? Mon Sep 10, 2012 1:28 am | |
| 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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| | Subject: Re: Who remembers "lunch counters"? Mon Sep 10, 2012 6:37 am | |
| 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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| | Subject: Re: Who remembers "lunch counters"? Mon Sep 10, 2012 7:44 am | |
| Oh yeah. My mother in law used to work at one. | |
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| | Subject: Re: Who remembers "lunch counters"? Mon Sep 10, 2012 8:28 am | |
| I used to love the counter at Woolworth's. They had the best burgers and milkshakes. | |
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| | Subject: Re: Who remembers "lunch counters"? Mon Sep 10, 2012 9:18 am | |
| 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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| | Subject: Re: Who remembers "lunch counters"? Mon Sep 10, 2012 11:33 am | |
| I think I recall my Mama taking me somewhere that had lunch counters. | |
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| | Subject: Re: Who remembers "lunch counters"? Mon Sep 10, 2012 11:55 am | |
| As a small child I remember one at the Rexall Drug Store & certainly the Woolworth's counter. | |
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Alan Smithee
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| | Subject: Re: Who remembers "lunch counters"? Mon Sep 10, 2012 1:34 pm | |
| - 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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| | Subject: Re: Who remembers "lunch counters"? Mon Sep 10, 2012 11:37 pm | |
| 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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| | Subject: Re: Who remembers "lunch counters"? Tue Sep 11, 2012 12:43 am | |
| I vaguely remember them from early childhood. | |
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| | Subject: Re: Who remembers "lunch counters"? Tue Sep 11, 2012 4:11 pm | |
| I don't remember them at all. | |
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| | Subject: Re: Who remembers "lunch counters"? Tue Sep 11, 2012 9:02 pm | |
| Mom and I went to a couple Woolworths in Chicago, but I don't recall a lunch counter. | |
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