Monday, February 12, 2024

“The five-and-dime !”

Jean Stafford, “Bad Characters” (1954), in Collected Stories (1969).

The names for such stores have been a matter for scholarly inquiry.

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comments: 2

Sean Crawford said...

I saw a play called "Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmie Dean." Dean appeared as a ghost behind a muslin screen.

Michael Leddy said...

Blogger failed to register my comment, hours ago. Anyway:

There’s also the old song “I Found a Million Dollar Baby (In a Five and Ten Cent Store).”