"Christine Dabney" > wrote
>
> We had Woolworths in Richmond, VA until I left there in 1975. I
> credit it with turning me on to over easy eggs. Before then, I used
> to like my eggs cooked dry....

What I remember is being a little girl (maybe 1st grade) in Baltimore, and
Woolworths had balloons hanging all around the lunch counter and if you
ordered a banana split, they popped a balloon to see how much you had
to pay for it. It ranged from a penny to 49 cents. This was what my sister
and I would do after the 35-cent matinee at the Arcade Theater. She was
three years older, and we were alone, having walked together from our house
around the corner. (This was maybe 1966?)