Dime (King Size) Cokes at the "Dime Store"

*1957*
Sandwich Menu
from Woolworths.... 

If anyone doubts what we paid for a coke and a sandwich at Woolworths in the 1950s,

here's proof of the era we lived in.

Memory Lane

I'll begin with some of the things that I remember, and you can add to the list: (Because of spam, your comments go to a moderator who approves and posts them later.)  There is no need to send them twice.

• Outhouses
• 2-holer
• Mule teams
• Cream separators
• Butter churns
• Flat irons; heated on wood stove
• Wood cook stove
• Clothes line
• 1-room school
• Sleeping on the hay rack (hay wagon) because it was too hot inside the house
• Chicken house
• Nation-wide broadcast at 8 PM on Sunday evenings (do you know who?)
• Lone Ranger on TV
• Horse-drawn plow
• Party-line crank phones & the operator
• Rationing (of almost everything) - ration stamp books
• Manure spreaders
• "Cake" - for feeding cows in winter
• Sewing bee
• Large holiday dinners with the whole family
• Shipping cattle by train
• A nice little town with 3 filling stations, 2 new car dealers, 3 implement dealers, 2 drug stores, 5 grocery stores,  a grade school, a high school, a hospital, 2 hardware stores, a dry-goods store, a weekly newspaper, a weekly livestock auction, a blacksmith shop, a 'sleepy' city marshal, a one-room jail, a volunteer fire department with a truck, and  numerous other businesses
• Saturday night dances
• High school plays
• Rodeos
• Local baseball
• Swimming in the river
• Hunting in the woods
• Fishing in the river
• Exploring on Lookout Mountain and many other places
• Turkey shoots (without the turkey!)
• Labor Day parades
• Alumni Banquet
• Sidewalk roller skating (and in the Hewins Park Pavilion)
• 5 cent Cokes, in glass bottles
• Penny candy
• 20 cent hamburgers and 15 cent hot dogs
• 19 cent per gallon gas
•  Saddle horses and real cowboys
• Farm "hands" -- workers who were very patient with curious little boys
• Dads who could make or fix anything -- because they had to
• Milking the cow(s) by hand
• Being happy to see deep snow
• Waiting for the rural mail carrier to bring the mail
• Picking walnuts and pecans off of the ground in the woods
• Getting news of relatives who were away at war