Date:  Thu, 8 Feb 1996 07:15:33 CST

From:  "Donald M. Lance" <ENGDL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MIZZOU1.MISSOURI.EDU>

Subject: Re: Five & Dime / Dime store



Tom, I was alive through 85% of the 1930s, but I remember the "million

dollar baby in the five and ten cent store" from the 1940s. Someone else

will come on and say it was 1950s, I'm sure.

  For me those stores were always "dime stores" but I used those other

terms when I knew interlocutors preferred the clumsier labels.  That's

the term my parents used; for a time when I was in the first grade my

mother worked in the dime store downtown, Kress's.

  The contemporary dollar stores seem to me to be a different kind of

enterprise than the salt-of-the-earth dime stores of the past.

                          DMLance