"Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
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> On Fri 10 Aug 2018 02:22:39p, jmcquown told us...
>
>> On 8/10/2018 4:40 PM, wrote:
>>>
>>> Last night my neighbor and I went downtown to a restaurant that
>>> has been open for about 6 months. It's in the old Woolworth's
>>> location and it had the old, very long lunch counter as well.
>>> Lots of tables and booths, though.
>>>
>>> We had crispy fried chicken skins as an appetizer. Meh.
>>>
>>> Both of us ordered their "dime store burger" which was a 6 ounce
>>> bear creek beef hamburger. Very, very good and it came with
>>> excellent shoe string fries. She ordered a watermelon cucumber
>>> salad instead of fries.
>>>
>>> We went upstairs to the bar area which was the old mezzanine when
>>> the store was open for business. Lots of pictures from the 60's
>>> when there was a sit-in at this location in an effort to
>>> desegregate. Quite interesting.
>>>
>>> http://woolworthonfifth.com/
>>>
>> How fun!
>>
>> In the late 1970's I used to take my lunch break at a small
>> Woolworth's store in a shopping mall in Memphis. IIRC they had
>> fish & chips on Friday. I think I got a burger and fries there a
>> couple of times, too, but seems to me there were crinkle cut
>> fries. I dunno, I was a long time ago.
>>
>> When I finished eating I'd peruse the store for fun little items
>> like cheap costume jewelry. I still have a macrame neckace with
>> sliced sea shell dangles that I picked up for 50 cents.
>>
>> https://s22.postimg.cc/z1aiqsb01/shells.jpg
>>
>> Thanks for the memories, Joan!
>>
>> Jill
>>
>
> I used to enjoy going to Woolworths and Kresges. The lunch counters
> usually had really decent food. The Woolworths always had hot roast
> beef sandwiches with real mashed potatoes. Very tasty. Of course
> theyhad the usual burgers, grilled cheese sandwiches, BLTs, etc. I
> used to like buying tropical fish in the pet department.

We mostly ate at a dime store near our house called Grants. I always got the
stuffed tomato. Might be stuffed with chicken salad, tuna salad or cottage
cheese. The cook named Jo, always told me that wasn't enough food for a
growing girl so she fried a roll for me. They were the hot dog type buns
used for lobster rolls. No clue where they got them from as I've never seen
them for sale anywhere here or at any other eatery.