Well, I certainly prefer the dime-store cowboy to the drug-store cowboy! Unfortunately, my Micro molding job doesn't let me get out on the horse too often during the week!

I remember the soda counter at the merchantile 5 and dime. We could get a coke with cherry phosphate for a dime and add peanuts to get the phizzz. Miss those days very much...

I do remember them good old days of the 5 & 10. We use to go get all the stuff to be a cowboy, hat, guns (cap pistols), for about $2.00. Also got 50cents worth of candy that would last about all day. I would say about 45 pieces of candy, one cent to 2 cents each. That was the big saturday deal. We use to stay out all day running the neighborhood. The only time we came home was for lunch or let mom know your having lunch at your friends house. Use to play hid and seek after dark.

There is a real dime store, with all the fix'ns in Branson, Missouri called "Dicks 5 and 10".
It is in old town Branson and I highly recommend it. Be prepared to see things you haven't seen since you were young.

Hi all, we got snow last night too cold to say out long so I thought Id put something down while im wating to thowout. I remember the old cap pistols that the dime store use to sale. Boy werent they something. Diecast metal with a hole in the end so you could see the smoke come out . My how times change. We use to play with those pistols all day even after the caps were gone. Does anyone out there remember those days. Does any one out there want to play.