five-and-ten

They passed a Club Monaco, which Smith said used to be a five-and-ten, and Herrick Hardware a family-run store with beach chairs hanging on its exterior like climbing roses.

I didn’t have any money, but I walked down to the five-and-ten store.

And there were so many ways to have a good time—so many flavors of ice cream to try, so many treasures to choose at the five-and-ten, so many trees to climb, so many books to borrow from the library, so many relatives willing to stop for a game of dominoes or checkers.

My other brother’s five-and-ten store at Georgia Avenue and Lamont streets NW was looted and all his merchandise stolen.

Montgomery had stores like J. J. Newberry’s and Kress’s five-and-ten, which opened onto Monroe Street—the main street for black people.