five-and-dime

The storefronts — eateries, jewelers, mini-supermarkets, five-and-dime shops — were merely in need of new windows and paint jobs; they were in fact doing a brisk business.

Buddha’s Savage Peace 2009

If Priscilla's last name sounds familiar, it will more than likely be from jaunts made long ago to the neighborhood Woolworth's five-and-dime store.

Susan Fogwell: Priscilla Woolworth: Compost Q & A Susan Fogwell 2011

On Washington Avenue, where clubs now pulse till dawn, stores used to sell whitefish and five-and-dime notions to gray-haired ladies like Mrs. Wallach.

Lea Lane: South Beach: Then and Now Lea Lane 2011

Mr. Walton built Wal-Mart from a five-and-dime store in the backwoods of Arkansas into a giant that eventually became the planet's largest retailer.

Disney, Walton, Ford, Gates: Tales of When Legends Leave Joe Light 2011

In Shoes, Eva Meyer Mary MacLaren is a young woman working in a five-and-dime store.

George Heymont: Rolling Down a River, Drowning in Denial George Heymont 2011

The storefronts — eateries, jewelers, mini-supermarkets, five-and-dime shops — were merely in need of new windows and paint jobs; they were in fact doing a brisk business.

Buddha’s Savage Peace 2009

I always bought more down at the five-and-dime, to restock the tin, but he never knew.

Kings of Colorado David E. Hilton 2011

There is a large-chain grocery store, the Big Y, some empty factory buildings, several old dark-brick school buildings, a five-and-dime, and a motley assortment of other drab storefronts.

Red Flags or Red Herrings? Susan Engel 2011

“Where he bought it in a five-and-dime Chinatown whorehouse,” said Benny, laughing.

Kings of Colorado David E. Hilton 2011

The ones currently on this blog are so goddamned five-and-dime.

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