Date:  Tue, 6 Feb 1996 21:09:40 -0800

From:  THOMAS CLARK <tlc[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]NEVADA.EDU>

Subject: Re: Five & Dime / Dime store



Come back to the five and dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean

Is that the right title? Loved Cher.

Cheers



Thomas L. Clark         702/895-3473

University of Nevada, Las Vegas (89154-5011)

tlc[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]nevada.edu



On Tue, 6 Feb 1996, Natalie Maynor wrote:



> 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)

>