(showing my age)... back in my childhood, my mom used to call Woolworth’s and the like, “the dime store”.
My parents also used that phrase and I remember that the local Woolworth back in the late 50s still had the sign with the 10 cents on it.
” “the dime store”. “
Boy, it’s been decades since I’ve heard that one.....
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Yup. The 5 and dime store.
I remember going to those as a yute.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._W._Woolworth_Company
The F. W. Woolworth Company (often referred to as Woolworth’s or Woolworth, or even Woolsworth) was a retail company that was one of the original American five-and-dime stores. The first Woolworth store was founded in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, with a loan of $300, in 1879 by Frank Winfield Woolworth.
The concept of the variety store originated with the five and ten, nickel and dime, five and dime or dimestore, a store where everything cost either five cents (a nickel) or ten cents (a dime). The originator of the concept may be Woolworth’s, which began in 1878 in Watertown, New York. Other five and tens that existed in the USA included J.J. Newberry, J.G. McCrory, S. S. Kresge, McLellan’s, S.H. Kress, TG & Y and Ben Franklin Stores.
showing my age)... back in my childhood, my mom used to call Woolworth’s and the like, “the dime store
I remember Grants and woolworths both being the 5 and ten cent stores, as for the dollar stores their a dime a dozen around here I think their is one about every 5 miles around here.
I remember when the generic term was the “Five and Ten,” and I’m technically not yet an old fart.
Little store near us was called _____________ 5 and Dime. There was Woolworth’s and Kresge’s (where one could get a very good lunch for a good price) Guess I’m dating myself, too. Loved the wooden floors in those stores.
The 5 & Dime is where mom took us so we kids could buy Christmas presents for each other.