It’s funny what we remember as kids. When we’d visit my grandmother in Fort Collins, Colorado she would walk us “up town” to Woolworth’s for ice cream sodas at their Soda Fountain! I remember these lines running from the cashiers where they would clip the money on what looked like a clothes pins to the bookkeepers upstairs!
Also when living in San Francisco as a child, my mother would take us to Woolworth’s to get “sidewalk sundaes”... They were similar to an ice cream sandwich. That was a big deal!
In the summer my grams would dress up, light summer dress, fancy straw hat with bright red wooden cherries, and white gloves. With us in tow, it was a slow stately walk in DC’s hot and humid summers, stop and chat with other ladies along the way to the store. On the return home we were treated to a small Coca Cola glass with crushed ice, ice was a big deal. Think they cost a nickel at the five and dime. Ice cream sodas were for birthdays and such.
It is funny what we remember. For no special reason I recall ice cream sodas costing 26 cents when I was in high school. Be really hard pressed to recall the price of anything else back then. Hmmm....