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I'm not surprised, although Wikipedia does have articles on it. People don’t seem to care much for history anymore though, so it probably isn’t a priority within Echoland to add such info.
I was only 2 years old in 1960, so I don’t remember the sit ins you mentioned. But I definitely remember the long gone five and dime stores that used to dot the landscape in nearly every strip mall and small town in my area. Woolworth was one of them, along with TG&Y, and a host of others. And in small towns where I grew up, catalog stores were popular, especially if the small town was a long ways from a big town. I haven’t seen a catalog store in years now, but I don’t live in a rural area anymore. Sears and Western Auto catalog stores used to be very popular in smal town USA.
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