WOOLWORTH'S Lunch Counter Menu 1970 !

...if you are at work and getting hungry do not look at this!

Woolworth's 1970 menu has the good (grilled cheese) the bad (shopper's diet plate --cottage cheese ,bun-less hamburger patty & peach half) and the ugly (ham salad!). The lunch counters actually closed before Woolworth's did (in 1997). So the remaining stores used the lunch counters for stocking merchandise and no longer served food. I sure could go for the Turkey Club Sandwich (says here ; $1.25) right now. In fact, at that price--I'll take 6 of them! I'm most impressed with the sheer variety on this menu! Barbeque on a Bun was mostly seen down south, so I'm wondering if the Woolworth's menu here--was nation-wide or not. I never heard of stuffed tomato either; another "down south" entree? Darkness and Light- The reverse end of food chain would be Jack in the Box.

As Woolworth's was opened mostly during daylight hours (many of them closed at 6:00 PM--which was very quaint, but annoying if you got there too late). Jack in the Box was the only other "24 Hour" fast food restaurant (aside from the anchor, White Castle).

Woolworth's customer's were mainly old ladies shopping for hair nets or bags of those chalky Canada Mints (the PINK ones). Jack in the Box customers were a mixed group--but on Friday and Saturday nights the eatin' was punctuated by fights, car crashes, m-80's going off in the bathrooms ; and the general late nite clientele of dirt-bags, white trash and snake handlers looking for stomach fodder to buffer the alchohol and drugs.

Dispite all this riff-raff, I loved their tacos! The entire thing was deep fried (a completley refreshing and non-tradional move!). The taco sauce would drip onto the wrapper and which you would be licking when you were done. Jack in the Box was truncated to "Jacks" here in NY in the 1980's (no clown heads, no frills). The chain is still very popular on the West Coast and in typical Mod-generic fashion, the clown has a cell phone now and he's probably on MySpace advertising glittery ringtones.