A lunch counter or luncheonette is a small restaurant, similar to a diner, where the patron sits on a stool on one side of the counter and the server serves...
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Greensboro sit-ins (redirect from Lunch counter protests)
products from a desegregated counter at the store with no problems, but were then refused service at the store's lunch counter when they each asked for a...
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lunch Lunch box Lunch counter Lunch lady Lunch meat Mahlzeit (German salutation) National School Lunch Act Plate lunch No such thing as a free lunch Portals:...
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were segregated lunch counters at Woolworth's. In Roanoke, Virginia on August 27, 1960, two women and a boy "...sat at the lunch counter and ordered a slice...
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free lunch experience by saying "the shells and shrapnels was flyin round and over our heads thicker than hungry bums around a free lunch counter". Free...
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Nighthawks (Hopper) (category Lunch counters)
sister, Marion, she wrote, "Ed has just finished a very fine picture—a lunch counter at night with 3 figures. Night Hawks would be a fine name for it. E...
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such thing as a free lunch" (alternatively, "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch", "There is no such thing as a free lunch" or other variants, sometimes...
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France. Diner lingo, American verbal slang used by staff in diners Lunch counter, a small diner-like restaurant located within another retail establishment...
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Eisenberg's Sandwich Shop (redirect from S&P Lunch)
Eisenberg's Sandwich Shop is a New York City lunch counter established in the Flatiron District in 1928. In 1928, Charles Schwadron and Rubin Pulver opened...
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childhood and later Joe's love interest and wife, who runs the airport's lunch counter but dreams of becoming a concert cellist. David Schramm plays Roy Biggins...
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the lunch counters of local stores, police and other officials sometimes used brutal force to physically escort the demonstrators from the lunch facilities...
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the public, or disrupt the goings-on of the protested organization. Lunch counter sit-ins were a nonviolent form of protest used to oppose segregation...
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Chock full o'Nuts (category Lunch counters)
beginning in 1926. When the Great Depression struck, he converted them to lunch counters, serving a cup of coffee and a sandwich for five cents. The brand became...
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Sit-in movement (category Lunch counters)
successfully deployed sit-ins and other direct action protest tactics against lunch counters in the city since at least 1953. One notable successful student sit-in...
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denied lunch service, they brought out the receipts, asking why their money was good everywhere else in the store but not at the lunch counter. Hundreds...
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Dictionary of American Slang defines sloppy joe as any cheap restaurant or lunch counter serving cheap food quickly. Several variations of the sloppy joe exist...
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housewares, fabrics, penny candy, toys, cosmetics, and often included a lunch counter or snack bar. The retailer John McCrorey opened his first McCrory store...
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their famous Concrete Mixers. Drink portal Dirty soda Barista Bartender Lunch counter Milk bar Milkshake Coffeehouse List of obsolete occupations Allen, Irving...
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Nashville sit-ins (category Lunch counters)
to May 10, 1960, were part of a protest to end racial segregation at lunch counters in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. The sit-in campaign, coordinated by...
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Blueplate Lunch Counter and Soda Fountain was a restaurant in Portland, Oregon, United States. Located in downtown's Dekum Building, the diner and lunch counter...
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turned away from the lunch counter." Many states in the US have outlawed practices that single out students who have school lunch debt. Webster was part...
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essential part of urban culture, alongside bars and nightclubs. Blueplate Lunch Counter and Soda Fountain, Portland, Oregon Byways Cafe, Portland, Oregon Cup...
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George Webb Restaurants (category Lunch counters)
an American chain of 31 lunch counter-style restaurants in the state of Wisconsin. After starting as a single lunch counter operation, George Webb Restaurants...
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efforts included the first successful civil rights campaign to integrate lunch counters (Nashville); the Freedom Riders, who desegregated interstate travel;...
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Part II Annie Banks (Age 7) 1998 The Parent Trap Lindsay 2000 What Women Want Girl at Lunch Counter 2001 The Affair of the Necklace Demonstrating Girl...
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opened the country's first soda fountain. The original location and its lunch counter is still in operation. At first there were three branches, two on what...
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Clary's Cafe (category Lunch counters)
Restaurant information Established 1903 (1903) Food type Breakfast and lunch Dress code Casual Street address 404 Abercorn Street City Savannah County...
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spoon Coney Island (restaurant) Dhaba, an Indian diner List of diners Lunch counter Mamak stall Meat and three Mickey's Diner Nick Tahou Hots Pat's Hubba...
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afterwards as the Greensboro Four, the four young men sat at a "whites-only" lunch counter at the Woolworth's store in downtown Greensboro and asked to be served...
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food cart, mobile kitchen or food truck An ice cream van A tapas bar A lunch counter A tuck shop "Snack bar". The Free Dictionary By Farlex. Archived from...
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