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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Monday, February 12, 2024
“The five-and-dime !”
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I saw a play called "Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmie Dean." Dean appeared as a ghost behind a muslin screen.
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ReplyDeleteThere’s also the old song “I Found a Million Dollar Baby (In a Five and Ten Cent Store).”