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Friday, August 22, 2008

LUNCH TIME! 1950


North Americans will probably be the only ones to smile at these old prices on the menu. They are at least 10 times as much now.
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Remember Woolworths? The place where a kid's allowance could actually buy something useful! A treasure store. The first version of the dollar store, but back then we called them 5 and 10 cent stores. You know the "cent" symbol is not even on our computer keyboards anymore? I MISS IT!
For you youngsters, it looks like this:
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1 comment:

dmarks said...

Our Woolworth's closed 10 or 15 years ago. It had a completely retro lunch counter, too.

 

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