How'm I gonna spend my two bits at the five and dime? (page 2)

eva luna

When I was a single digit numbered kiddo, visiting my best lfreind, her father would give us all a dime to walk to the new safeway on Pollard Rd. L.G. She had a flock of brothers and sisiters from white to mocha. I just had freckles. But Pippy didnt mind them , so I would worry either.

We always got a shasta soda automaticy , but with the change, that was a hard one. We usualy did the gumball machines.

But there is nothing like a big new red eraser. I want a magical one. You know, erase some bad memories , erase the negative people out too.

Loved eating at the Woolworths counter too in downtown SC.. Always a grilled chees and timber float (water and toothpick) smile

Nice sharing memories with everyone....:)

Vidiot

Get your first real six-string.

Play it 'til your fingers bleed.

You and some friends from school start a band and try real hard.

Don't let Jimmy quit or let Jody get married.

Take it from there...

compound complex

Wonderful tales, Bee (Kelly Green) and Eva! Thanks for sharing your trips into the world of cheap but lovable merchandise.

I like how you turned your experience into a little story, Eva. I, too, want a magic eraser!

BTW, Bee, I have just now personalized my "Big Pink"! Forgotten about that. When I get through here, I'm going to use a potato peeler to take a strip of yellow off my Ticonderoga # 2 and ink in "CoCo."

My 7th grade teacher taught us how to make our own notepads from construction paper and wood-pulp sheets both cut to size and then stapled at the top. Gotta do that soon!

Gratefully,

CoCo du Papier

Glander

The memories are stirred from the bottom of the cauldron. Little tasty bits I haven't savored in a long time.

When the semester started in junior high or high school we were given old dog eared textbooks and instructed to get them covered. I always made book covers from brown paper grocery bags. Now we were faced with hours of boredom staring at our brown paper bookcovers. Naturally the artistic impulse to doodle was overwhelming. For us boys in the late fifties one of the constant themes were FLAMES. I got really good at it.

Hortensia

I remember that 25 cents would actually buy something at Woolworth's when I was a kid. Later, as a young adult, I loved eating at the Woolworth's lunch counter in downtown San Diego. Their hotdogs were delicious.

BabaYaga

Hello, Darling CoCo! I am still a cheap date (but don't tell anybody.)

Love (and thanks for the memories)
Baba.

nancy drew

I remember woolworths along with greens and grants all five and tens as we called them.

the first day of school they ring the school bell we line up quietly the nuns stand guard with sour faces we walk silently to our places in our navy blue uniforms.

The day starts with a string of prayers ending with the pledge of allegiance. 12 years of catholic school

nancy drew

I just thought of something about the pledge when I was five we had to start saying it every morning at school and I had no idea what it was all about and there's part of it that goes and to the republic for which it stands but i heard for whichard stand and I remember wondering what in the world is whichard stand it was puzzling to a five year old.

LV101

Woolworths and Newberrys --- WOW, long, long, time ago. Your post reminds me to pick up a new pencil box --- one of the larger type. We use them in our acrylic painting class as paint pallettes after we soak a few paper towels to line the box with. Should be plenty of pencil boxes on the market this time of year. Maybe dollar stores have them?

Yes, Woolworths in Calif. had good hotdogs and fountain cokes.

compound complex

Dear Five-and-Dime Friends:

Your comments have cheered me up and reminded me of many other related things (paper bag covers for old textbooks [thanks, Glander]).

I just realized that my affinity for this subject relates to the broader matter of education, i.e., the procuring of a student's tools of the trade to assist in the grand purpose of educating himself. Pencil to paper - however cheap the paper and stubby the chewed pencil - is my idea of writer's heaven.

This tapping out of keypad letters and shooting them through cyberspace is effective , to be sure, yet ...

Love,

CoCo des Crayons

How'm I gonna spend my two bits at the five and dime?

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