Woolworths used to have a damn fine coffeeshop

[catmandu57]

But they went belly up in the sun, maybe it was all the psychos that hung out there that did them in.

[asthmaticeog]

1. Back in my day, coffee was a nickel and children kept their mouths shut!

[catmandu57]

2. Damned straight Jack

The worlds went to hell in a handbasket when they closed the Woolworth.

[Rude Horner]

3. My sister used to waitress there when I was a kid

I'd go there and she'd buy me a cheesburger, fries and a shake. Oh man. Mmmmmmmmmmmmm

[Adsos Letter]

4. Oh man, I hadn't thought of that in years...linoleum and

those little round padded stools...and pie...

[ComerPerro]

5. I have really good memories of Woolworth's diner, my grandpa used to take me there

[BrotherBuzz]

6. Our Woolworth's coffeeshop smelled like mothballs and popcorn...

but then again, everything in our Woolworth store smelled like mothballs and popcorn.

:shrug:

[Shakespeare]

7. In Nancy Griffith's song "Love at the Five & Dime"....

She described the Woolworth's smell as "popcorn and chewin' gum, rubbed around together on the bottom of a leather-soled shoe."

An excellent song, too. :-)

[BrotherBuzz]

9. I'll check that song out, but the smell wasn't chewin' gum, it was definitely...

'Old lady' mothball smell.

[texanwitch]

8. We had a big Woolworths downtown on Main Street.

They had three places to eat at one time.

A sad part of American history was that the upstairs eating places were for only white people, the downstairs for black people.

I still remember my Aunt taking me downtown when I was very small and I couldn't understand why we couldn't eat downstairs.

[Kat45]

10. Ours had a counter, a soda shoppe type of thing.

The bikers used to hang out there.

[Wapsie B]

11. I remember a nut roaster in our Woolworths.

MMMMMMMMMMMMM! What a great aroma.

[KitchenWitch]

12. I loved the Woolworth Coffee shop in DT Minneapolis

We went there twice a year when I was a kid.

[njdemocrat106]

13. I kind of miss Woolworth's

IMO, the coolest of their coffee shops was in the Cherry Hill Mall here in New Jersey. It was called the "Cherry Hill Grill", and it wasn't actually inside the store; instead, it was across from it, inside the actual mall. You'd sit down at the counter, and you'd actually look down and watch the cooks make your order. The last time I was at that mall, naturally the Woolworth's was gone, and the grill had become some trendy, overpriced "bistro". :(

Edit: I found this picture of it, from back in the 60s. It didn't really look like this when I used to go there.

[catmandu57]

14. I loved their breakfast

Sitting at the counter watching the sausage, eggs, and pancakes cooking, while two feet away was a pie safe full of cavities and tooth decay, ymmm.