A 1939 menu featured cubed minute steak, pan gravy and buttered beets with a roll and French fries for 25 cents—about $5.68 today. Like many public spaces in the mid-1900s, some lunch counters ...

S & P Lunch sits in the space long occupied by Eisenberg’s Sandwich Shop, and shares its quirky, deadpan spirit. By Pete Wells Eisenberg’s Sandwich Shop, a narrow, anachronistic lunch counter ...

Smokee's is named after Siddons' 12-year-old Jack Russell terrier-pug mix breed dog, who's illustrated as an astronaut in a portrait on the dining room's wall. "He's got a big personality, and he ...

These two pictures are of a sit-in at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in Durham, N.C. on Feb. 10, 1960. Sit-Ins Spread Across The South By the end of February, there had been sit-in protests at more ...

I never ate at Doc Pryor’s lunch counter but I had a few cokes from his fountain. The Ridgedale Pharmacy near the corner of Main and Dodds was owned by Dr Fred McWhorter. From the late 1950s ...

The main exhibit highlights two separate (yet intertwined) timelines: Kresge’s five-and-dime store and lunch counter, so successful that it eventually grew into retail behemoth K-Mart; and ...

Jun. 19—GRAND FORKS — When Molly Yeh, owner of East Grand Forks restaurant Bernie's and host of Food Network show "Girl Meets Farm," heard the Grand Forks Air Force Base was looking to provide ...

PATERSON — The new owner of the Libby’s Lunch property said Monday that he no longer is looking to demolish the one-story cinderblock building and instead will do renovations so he can reopen ...

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 ...

Bernie's lunch counter now open on Grand Forks Air Force Base In this Herald file photo, Brian Loer and his wife, Jenny Loer, are first in line for the grand opening of Bernie's Cafe in downtown ...