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unusual facts about Lunch counter


Lunch counter

Typical foods served were hot and cold sandwiches (e.g., ham and cheese, grilled cheese, BLT, patty melt, egg salad), soups, pie, ice cream (including sundaes, ice cream sodas and milkshakes), soda, coffee and hot chocolate.


Eastmont Town Center

Eastmont's primary anchor tenants were JCPenney, Mervyns, Woolworth's (including a lunch counter), Safeway, Pay 'n Save and Kinney Shoes, one of the nation's leading shoe retailers at the time.


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Clarence Harris

On February 1, 1960, Ezell A. Blair, Jr. (later Jimbaeel Khazan), Frank McCain, Joseph McNeil and David Richmond, four young African-American students from the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T), entered the downtown Greensboro Woolworth's and sat at the "whites only" lunch counter.

Dahl's Foods

Another store opened in 1952 featuring a scratch bakery, pharmacy, and a lunch counter, uncommon for a grocery store at that time.

Mrs. Smith's

Her son Robert P. started selling slices of Amanda’s own deep-dish, fruit-filled pies door-to-door, and at the local YMCA lunch counter.

Richmond 34

The Richmond 34 refers to a group of Virginia Union University students who participated in a nonviolent sit in at the lunch counter of Thalhimers department store in downtown Richmond, Virginia.

Terry H. Anderson

Anderson's The Movement and the Sixties was released by Oxford in 1995 and in e-book form in 2001 under the shortened title, The Sixties. Anderson traces the 1960s protest movement from the lunch counter sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina to the Indian activists taking the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, hostage.