Woolworth’s dominance was challenged by a boom in discount retailers, and by 1997 the company closed its 400 remaining U.S. stores. The last operating lunch counter , in Bakersfield, California ...

By Kathryn Rem. Take a look at this Woolworth lunch counter menu from the 1950s. If you can't remember it, marvel at the prices. If you can remember it, it may bring back some swell memories.

The menu prices at the counter in January 1969 were a bit higher. ... 1960, and continued nearly six months until the Woolworth's lunch counter there was integrated on July 25, 1960.

Walk into the reimagined Woolworth on 5th, past a front window display chronicling the building’s iconic history, and you’ll feel transported back in time to one of the most important decades ...

The menu gets attention in part because of the prices: The regular ham salad sandwich (30 cents), ... Anderson's collective fondness for the Woolworth lunch counter wasn't unusual.

There, students celebrated Black History Month as they reflected upon the impact of the 1960 Greensboro NC Woolworth lunch counter sit ins. Dr. Rita Gaither and Staci Feola-Elbadry, ...

Woolworth’s dominance was challenged by a boom in discount retailers, and by 1997 the company closed its 400 remaining U.S. stores. The last operating lunch counter , in Bakersfield, California ...