Date:  Tue, 6 Feb 1996 17:50:06 -0600

From:  Natalie Maynor <maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

Subject: Re: Five & Dime / Dime store



I'm pretty sure we called it "the ten-cent store" in Mississippi in the

early '50s. We might have called it "the five and ten" but never "the

five and dime." Later "dime store" can along.

  --Natalie (maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ra.msstate.edu)