She never ate dinner, considering lunch superior. However you rate lunch, it is probably the original meal—for much of ...

The lunch counter existed from the time that F.W. Woolworth opened in 1912 at 205 E. Douglas until it closed on Dec. 22, 1990, a month ahead of the 12,000 square-foot store.

A monument is being made in her honor to commemorate the Katz Drug Store sit-in, which was one of the first lunch counter sit-ins in America.

Woolworth Lunch Counter stools are exhibited at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 14, 2016.

The lunch counter is an 8-foot section of the original lunch counter from Woolworth Department Store in Greensboro, North Carolina. There is a laminated black countertop with a stainless-steel trim ...

Apr 29, 2025 1 A section of the original lunch counter from the Greensboro Woolworth store has been on exhibit since the mid-1990s in the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.

It was the pharmacy lunch counter that I liked best. While in college my future wife and I could get a meat and two, a banana pudding and coke for under a dollar each and it was delicious.

The first day of business was slow. Chilly weather had potential customers walking briskly past the signs offering burritos. Tina Carter, who works behind the counter serving food, said the shop will ...