My Sister Janine recently E-Mailed Me this unique if not somewhat forgotten piece of vintage postwar Americanna. It's hard to imagine prices so well within reason today for anybody to eat outside these days, but this was the way of life in post World War Two North America. This is an old 1950's lunch counter menu from the old F.W. Woolworth neighborhood discount stores. I was born in 1962, and litterally grew up in Chicago shopping at the Woolworth Stores. I frequently visited the one at West 111th Street and South Kedzie Avenue in Chicago's Mount Greenwood neighborhood, as well as the one at the Cermak and Harlem Shopping Plaza in Berwyn Illinois, and the one on West 63rd Street near South Kedzie Avenue. There was also one in My old neighborhood at West 26th Street and South Pulaski Road.
Woolworth's pulled the plug and went out of business in 1997.
2 comments:
Do you remember Ben Franklins 5&10
Absolutely buddy.
I also remember Neisner's, Jupiter and Kresge stores too. I also recall that many neighborhood Walgreens drug stores had lunch counters too back in the 1960's and 70's era.
Eddie K.
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