The 5 & 10 Cent store pretty much gave way to shopping makks starting in the late 50's. Woolworth's and Kress are the two I remember, and you actuly could go in there and get stuff for a nickel or a dime. Most of them, as I recal also had lunch counters (I believe one of the first sit ins in the civil rights movement was at a Woolworth's counter in North Carolina).
Basically as Main Streets in small towns disappeared so did the five and dimes.
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