Tell Us About McCrory's Stores

We enjoyed the luncheon counter and often enjoyed a 60-cent dinner of baked meatloaf, right brown gravy, creamy whipped potatoes, fresh carrots and peas, a warm cloverleaf roll, and butter. A 10-cent Coca Cola. A strawberry tulip sundae for 25-cents topped it off.

The one in the town where I grew up is now a CVS. It didn't have a lunch counter but it did have one of those big displays of Brach's candy that you would buy by the pound, and I always helped myself to a caramel. It had a huge toy department which is where I'd be while my mom wandered the aisles looking at cheap housewares. The closest comparison I can think of is today's Christmas Tree stores.

My grandmother loved McCrory's

McCrory's owned several other chains, including National Shirt Shops and Lerner's (women's clothing).

In my flyover suburban town, McCrory's opened McCrory's Village, where all of their stores were under one roof. From the outside, it looked like you were entering any other big box store, but once inside, the stores were all in separate walled off areas.

Apparently, it wasn't much of a retail attraction as the store closed less than 10 years after opening.

Where we would buy goldfish for swallowing.

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