Site of Old Dime Store in Jacksonville

In Jacksonville, Alabama, Crow Drug now occupies the site of the old dime store mentioned by Rick Bragg in All Over But the Shoutin'. Bragg wrote: "The ritziest place I had ever been inside was the dime store on the old courthouse square. It was run by two ancient sisters. I would walk the aisles, looking at the toys and worthless knickknacks and magazine rack, which I was not allowed to touch. The old women tracked me with their eyes, every step I made. At ten-minute intervals one of the old women would ask if they could help me. "No ma'am,' I would say, " I'm just lookin'" (96).

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