On Jun 21, 7:56*pm, Christine Dabney > wrote:

> However, I will go inside. *I want to check out the lunch counter. *I
> have fond memories of eating at a Woolworths lunch counter. *And
> judging from the responses I have gotten to my FB posting, others have
> fond memories too. *
>
> Anyone else have memories, even fond memories?
>

I remember kids sitting at the counter, shooting drinking straw
wrappers at each other. After the straw makers got smart and started
putting holes in the end of the wrappers, the kids would have to twist
the ends of the wrappers to be able to shoot them.

I think Woolworth's was where I had a frozen cherry Coke.

The thing I associate most with Woolworth's was the cheeping birds
they had for sale. Each Woolworth's sold pets.

On Jun 22, 2:43*pm, spamtrap1888 > wrote:
> On Jun 21, 7:56*pm, Christine Dabney > wrote:
>
> > However, I will go inside. *I want to check out the lunch counter. *I
> > have fond memories of eating at a Woolworths lunch counter. *And
> > judging from the responses I have gotten to my FB posting, others have
> > fond memories too. *
>
> > Anyone else have memories, even fond memories?
>
> I remember kids sitting at the counter, shooting drinking straw
> wrappers at each other. After the straw makers got smart and started
> putting holes in the end of the wrappers, the kids would have to twist
> the ends of the wrappers to be able to shoot them.
>
> I think Woolworth's was where I had a frozen cherry Coke.
>
> The thing I associate most with Woolworth's was the cheeping birds
> they had for sale. Each Woolworth's sold pets.

Don't forget the 49 cent Flame-glo lipsticks which lived under glass.
A clerk had to extract and show each one.

Mine also had goldfish, plus a FREE 45 player in the record section.
I can recall they had to take it away after some kid played "Stranded
in the Jungle" and "Maybelline" a few dozen times.

(Now, who sang THOSE, all you trivia experts?)

On 6/22/2010 12:43, spamtrap1888 wrote:
> I remember kids sitting at the counter, shooting drinking straw
> wrappers at each other...

When both the straws and their wrappers were made of paper?

<and individual servings of milk came in glass bottles with cardboard
stoppers, and we had to get the teacher to open our milk for us because
we only had stumpy little kid fingers but she had fingernails!!... I am
so old>

On Jun 23, 3:59*pm, Pennyaline > wrote:
> On 6/22/2010 12:43, spamtrap1888 wrote:
>
> > I remember kids sitting at the counter, shooting drinking straw
> > wrappers at each other...
>
> When both the straws and their wrappers were made of paper?
>
> <and individual servings of milk came in glass bottles with cardboard

> stoppers, and we had to get the teacher to open our milk for us because
> we only had stumpy little kid fingers but she had fingernails!!... I am
> so old>

I still have a box of paper straws. Utterly useless, don't know how
we used them when we were kids, but maybe that's why I still have the
box<G>.
maxine in ri

maxine in ri wrote:

>
> I still have a box of paper straws. Utterly useless, don't know how
> we used them when we were kids,




Plastic anything was pretty rare int he 50s except for crummy celluloid.
You had to drink quickly because the paper straws fell apart when they
were wet. How spoiled we have become!

gloria p