Local ‘The lunch counter now has two empty seats: ’ She is the only one left who can describe what it felt like to sit there that hateful day.

"Who do you think the guys are in the shades?" Joan Mulholland asked. I looked again at the black-and-white photograph on the coffee table in front of us. I had stared at it many times, but had ...

Drugstore lunch counter struggles for survival Monday, July 30, 2007 | 7:05 a.m. Walk into Decatur Drug, pass the penny slot machines and head to the gold-flecked Formica lunch counter in back.

ASHEVILLE - The Rite Aid lunch counter, a North Asheville icon of nearly 50 years, served its final customer Saturday, marking what one longtime regular deemed "the end of an era." ...

Though empty now, the old lunch counter at the Bakersfield Woolworth's is slated for restoration and to operate once more. It is the last of its kind in the U.S. Photo Courtesy Sherod Waite ...

“Who do you think the guys are in the shades?” Joan Mulholland asked.

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