Date:  Tue, 6 Feb 1996 22:38:36 EST

From:  Larry Horn <LHORN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU>

Subject: Re: Five & Dime / Dime store



Woolworth's was 'the five and ten' in the early 50's in New York; I've heard

five and dime since (including in the title of a nice Nanci Griffith song,

"Love at the Five and Dime", on "Last of the True Believers"), and somehow

process it as being more rural.



Larry