"Five-and-ten" nghĩa là gì?

"Five-and-ten" -> nghĩa là cửa hàng bán hàng hóa giá rẻ (chỉ từ 5 đến 10 xu cho từng sản phẩm); cửa hàng tạp hóa.

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Acoma-born and Spokane-raised mega-crooner Bing Crosby said it best. It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, everywhere you go! Take a look at the five-and-ten, glistening once again…With candy canes and silver lanes aglow!

Farm breakfasts were made really special by having good ribbon cane syrup to eat with buttered homemade biscuits and sausage. In early days, kids used to punch a hole in a biscuit and pour in syrup. That made a good school lunch and the empty syrup bucket made a good lunch pail. The syrup buckets were mostly gallon size, but now most are half-gallon size. The empty syrup (xi-rô, nước ngọt) bucket also made a great Easter egg bucket before you could buy baskets and pails at the five and ten cent store. Buckets of syrup made good door stops. I have a scar on my chin where I fell, hitting my chin on the edge of one of these buckets.

Lorraine Gutierrez, class of 1972: “I really wanted to go to Raymond Hill because we heard they had the best candy, but my mother wouldn’t let me. My favorite costume was a skeleton one that my mother got for me at the five and ten store on Fair Oaks.” Scott Stevenson, class of 1977: “Halloween of 1975, me and a buddy decided on a different approach to the event. I had a Nixon mask and he had a Kissinger, which comprised the totality of our ‘costumes’ as streaking was in full swing at the time. We traded treats for the trick that year, since being fleet of foot was a priority and terrorized the neighborhood around Marengo, Mission and Oxley. Definitely one memorable Halloween and hopefully any statute of limitations has long expired.”

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