five-and-ten
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Broadway, the neighborhood’s high street, is served by five-and-ten dollar businesses: Walgreen’s, Wendy’s, soft ice cream stands, and grimy diners serving city chicken.
From Salon • May 12, 2013
If any Gothic soars into the morning, it commemorates not God but the Woolworth five-and-ten cent stores.
From Time Magazine Archive
France's largest five-and-ten store, expanded from two to nine stores.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Sea Snail is laughably mechanical, and the luna moth, which propels Harrison home to Puddleby-on-the-Marsh, looks like a five-and-ten windup toy left over from someone's Christmas stocking.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice" by Phillip Hoose
