I used to use sites such as Facebook to collect random thoughts and share them with people I know. However, I do not wish to actively participate on a platform that thinks of women as objects or encourages the denigration of people based on orientation, race, religion, gender, ethnicity, etc. So, I will put my random thoughts here. I will keep the platform for now, as I don’t want to lose touch with friends. And hell, facebook keeps buying everything, so it is nearly impossible to escape them.
I was bouncing around the internet this evening, and I saw a menu from Woolworths. I highly recommend looking up the history of the company, which started as a 5 and Dime in Utica, NY, and later in Lancaster, PA, in 1879. Some people may remember it from the sit-ins in the early 60s. Others may remember it from the 2000 movie Oh Brother Where Art Thou.
I remember it as where I had lunch in the 90s when I was a manager at Montogomery Ward at the Yorktown Mall. At some point, I will have to add an entry into what I did there, but my friend and I had the entire floor where they used to house Discover Cards for our office. I think we were in our early 20s at that point. Woolworths more or less ceased to be in 1997, and I think that was the time it left the mall. Technically, the company is still around, but it is very different.
The one at Yorktown had a lunch counter, and my friend and I would often go there for lunch when we were at our office. Here is, I’m pretty sure, a menu from that era. I’m not putting the whole menu because, more often than not, I got the burger.
So, there it is… a simple memory.
Henry James Morello 