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75. I'm a few years younger than Chump, and I remember "dime stores" from the 1950s

Fri Apr 17, 2026, 12:50 PM

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Of course they're long gone and have been for some time. My mom used to call them dime stores (it was probably Woolworth's) so that's what we learned to call them.

I'm guessing dime stores are the closest equivalent to today's "dollar stores," but they're not really the same thing. In the 1959 or 60, I could take my 25-cent weekly allowance to the dime store and buy penny candy, a comic book, and a bottle of soda. Or I could go the ice cream shop and get a 5-cent ice cream cone, or really splurge and get two scoops for 10 cents. It was incomparable luxury!

What has me puzzled is why doesn't he recognize the term "corner store"? I mean, he grew up in New York where all the stores are corner stores, even in Queens. He's showing more symptoms of dementia, or Alzheimer's.

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