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Here's a Real Blast from the Past: 1957 Woolworth's Lunch Menu
Reaganite Republican ^ | April 8, 2011 | Reaganite Republican

Posted on 04/08/2011 2:57:25 AM PDT by Reaganite Republican

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To: Dr. Scarpetta

Me too. Downtown San Diego.


61 posted on 04/08/2011 7:36:19 AM PDT by onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want to be on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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To: Nip

I grew up in California close enough to go to McDonald’s at lunch. Hamberger 12 cents fries 10 cents and a coke for a dime or malt for 15. 1950’s.


62 posted on 04/08/2011 7:36:46 AM PDT by Coldwater Creek (He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty Psalm 91:)
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To: mylife
I grew up in the nest of the original Bob's Big Boy...and remember some of this (Guessing late 50's or early 60's):


63 posted on 04/08/2011 7:39:38 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (It's not the Obama Administration....it's the "Obama Regime".)
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To: old and tired

I got $3.50 per lawn on Long Island in 1963. At that time a Saturday matinee double feature up the block was $0.35 and candy was a nickel. So, for half a buck we got two movies, a box of candy for each one and a third box to throw around the theater in candy fights. Black Crows were my favorite ammo.


64 posted on 04/08/2011 7:46:25 AM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get down that hill?")
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To: Giddyupgo

Definitely a blast from the past. In the early 60’s my girlfriends and I would get on the bus and go downtown (Jacksonvile, Fl) to shop at the dept store then over to Woolworth’s for lunch. I always got the grilled cheese, fries and a cherry coke. We were lucky to grow up in such a wonderful time. I feel sorry for kids nowadays they have no clue how great childhood used to be.


65 posted on 04/08/2011 8:01:47 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Reaganite Republican

Darn- now you did it; I’m hungry!


66 posted on 04/08/2011 8:25:40 AM PDT by JimRed (Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: ErnBatavia

I could murder one of those burgers right about now.


67 posted on 04/08/2011 9:17:31 AM PDT by mylife (OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
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To: old and tired
The going rate in the Philly burbs in the early 1970's was 5 bucks a lawn.

If philly burbs = main line, OK and now we are into the 70s when the original menu was from 1955.

Twenty years can make a difference.

In 1939 my dad, a united steel worker was receiving .39/hour in 1959 at the same plant, his rate was $ 3.29/hour, 20 years can make a difference.

68 posted on 04/08/2011 9:43:43 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages.)
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To: Reaganite Republican

Brings back fond memories. Back in 1957 my cousin and I used to get wonderful tall root beer floats for $.15 at our local drugstore soda fountain. Malts were a lofty $.25, but you got not only a tall glassful, but the rest in the metal mixing container!


69 posted on 04/08/2011 9:53:50 AM PDT by Zman516 (muslims, marxists, communists ---> satan's useful idiot corps)
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To: RandallFlagg

One of those might go for 30k now. Talk about inflation!


70 posted on 04/08/2011 10:09:49 AM PDT by CJ Wolf (I like it that FR still spell checks "obama")
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To: Reaganite Republican

I started working in earnest when I was 14. My treat to myself was to take the bus to downtown Houston, eat at the Woolworths’ Lunch Counter and go to a movie at Lowe’s.


71 posted on 04/08/2011 12:01:06 PM PDT by PROTESTBYPROXY (We are manning up!!)
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To: Reaganite Republican

Good old Woolworths. On my vacations home from college, I worked at our local Woolworths taking the store inventory. There’s few things more boring in this world than counting buttons at Woolworths at 11:00 at night. While your friends are out partying.


72 posted on 04/08/2011 12:21:50 PM PDT by Ol' Sox
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