[T-Bird45]

In 1967, I think nearly all schools had cafeterias.

And you'd be wrong. That year was the very first year for the first cafeteria in the brand new junior high school of my youth. The elementary schools were strictly a brown-bag or go-home lunch situation. The high school was downtown with access to lunch counters or get in your car to go to a drive-in or brown-bag. I write all of this from first-hand experience with each as I was part of the first group to experience the new cafeteria in 1967 as a 7th-grade student in that mid-sized Kansas town.

[tdscpa]

I could very well be wrong. Old-timers disease, you know. In 1967 I was a college senior. My schools had cafeterias in the early 50’s when I started grade school. All of the schools in NW KS had school lunches during all my grade school years.