Woolworths menu from the 50's

[Mark Davis]

[Tele Fan]

Hmmmmm what to eat what to eat . . .

[Just-Jim]

Awesome flashback! I remember a drug store diner in downtown Long Beach CA I would go to with my parents in the 70's. I thnk it was the last time I ever saw a soda jerk (not being harsh - but that was what they were called back in the olden days)!

[Mark Davis]

Ya back then you could say extra butterscotch syrup or anything and get it.

We had a Woolworths in my hometown used to go in there and get malted milk balls they sold them by weight so you could get just a few or alot. I used to buy 15 cents worth and that would last me along time.

I remember getting grilled cheese sandwiches with a super sour dill pickle spear man those were good.

[emu!]

As an elementary student in the late 60's, Mom would give me 10 cents every day to use as I pleased at the candy counter. My usual:\

1 soda pop (10 oz glass bottle) - $0.05
6 home-made cookies (3 for .01) - $0.02
9 jaw busters (3 for .01) - $0.03

[boris bubbanov]

The food wasn't bad, but I saw no joy in eating in that kind of environment.

Half of the fun of going to Vic's Pizza was the sawdust on the floor and the opportunity to sit at the booth with your friends' older brother and his cool friends. The pizza was just a bonus.

Nobody seemed cool once they walked in the door of the 5 and Dime; the girls (!) didn't even seem all that alluring. Ever make a date at the butcher's shop? (what we used to call a "meat market" before that word was purloined)? Neither me. The same girls were almost irresistible at Vic's.

Context!

[Fendrcaster]

The last time I ate at a Woolworth's lunch counter was in Billings, Montana, in 1969. I remember there was a sign stating that if the server didn't ask you if you'd like a strawberry shortcake for dessert, you'd get one free. I sure did enjoy that free dessert!

[unclearty]

Woah...when I was little, a friend of my mother's would take me to town to run her errands once or twice a week. I hate to think of how many of those grilled cheese sandwiches I ate...with pickles, of course.

[FirstBassman]

"Pressed" ham?

[davidge1]

Man, Im bummed I can't try the "Super De-luxe Ham Sandwich."

[markothefish]

Originally Posted by unclearty

Woah...when I was little, a friend of my mother's would take me to town to run her errands once or twice a week. I hate to think of how many of those grilled cheese sandwiches I ate...with pickles, of course.

+1 Same here , Downtown New Bedford , The Woolworth's was right across the street from the planter's peanut shoppe

[voodoostation]

Still have a handful of lunch counters around these parts, but they're a dying thing. Got an apothecary just up the road that still has a soda jerk working there.

[boneyguy]

My granny would take me downtown on the bus to go shopping at Woolworths and Kresges. We would usually have lunch at the counter at Woolworths. That would have been in the mid sixties though. A whole lifetime ago.

[Cassidy]

Very cool, I remember my mom and dad taking us to the Woolworth's or Kresge's and what a big treat it was to eat there. Mmmmm, a cheese sandwich and a banana split. Once I found a twenty dollar bill on the floor. My mom took it straight to the checker and turned it in (much to my chagrin). A few minutes later, a woman asked if someone found a twenty... I got a five dollar bill reward and mom let me spend it... I bought a ton of stuff and had a couple bucks left over.

Back then, the five and dime stores were like our K-Marts. Speaking of K-Mart... remember when K-Marts had a lunch counter? Good burgers and fries, for like $1.19.

But the best memory was when dad took us to white castle for a whole bag of 12 cent burgers... little square burgers with something similar to meat and a whole mess of teeny onions (that I painstakingly picked off). Still, they were great.

Cassidy

[neatone]

ah woolworths! in nyc!
bought many a tropical fish at woolworths
and in the 60's, bags of cut/out 45's for 99 cents
maybe 20 in a bag
kinks, wayne fontana, dusty springfield, cool jerk!!
hahaha

and sittin on a blue naugahyde swivel chair at the counter
havin a banana split
and to pay u'd pick a balloon
from dozens of balloons suspended all around the counter
and whatever amount was on a piece of paper inside the balloon
was what u'd pay
and sometimes
FREE

theres was a great big old woolworths
on powell st in sf ca that lasted into the 80's
that was a real time machine

there was a similar type 5& 10 store
called mccrorys
that died a much earlier demise

[Fendrcaster]

The local Woolworths in my hometown of Frederick, Maryland closed about 15 years ago. I was sad to see it go, but I got some great deals on a bunch of fishing stuff that was on sale. I was somewhere in Georgia a couple weeks ago (Savannah?) and saw a Woolworths sign over a downtown storefront. I don't know if it was still in business or not.

[jonzer]

There's a pharmacy in downtown Fredericksburg with a menu like that (not the prices), but it's still pretty cheap. You can get a sandwich, chips, pickle and a coke for less than five bucks.

And I'm with the guy above who asked...."pressed ham"?...

[casterway]

We still have a store like this here. It's an old Army & Navy store, built in 1939. Still pretty original, walking through the old oak and glass doors, and down the wide, creaky stairs, there is still the old store cafe in operation. Not gourmet by any stretch, but you can sit at the counter and get a grilled cheese and a glass of milk and pretend you're in 1964.

[woodman]

man, i was there. a dime and a certain number of soft-drink bottle caps would get you into the triple-header western, with cartoons in between. then you'd spend the rest of your quarter on a hot dog and a big orange drink at Woolworth's. yeah baby! life was good then!

[B Valley]

I ate breakfast at one the last Woolworth's in the Bay Area. The same women had worked there since it opened, and now they were little blue haired ladies with hair nets. I ordered pancakes and while I was waiting, two roaches walked across the counter in front of me. I ate most of the pancakes, and when the third cockroach walked across the counter, I smashed him with my spoon and left him on the plate.
This is not to say they were all like that. They were actually decent places to eat. But this one, like the waitresses, was old and run down.