[tdscpa]

I could very well be wrong. Old-timers disease, you know. In 1967 I was a college senior. My schools had cafeterias in the early 50’s when I started grade school. All of the schools in NW KS had school lunches during all my grade school years.

[T-Bird45]

Interesting about cafeterias in NW KS in the 50s & 60s. Is it possible that it had to do with the rural nature of the area, i.e. long distances? I grew up in Arkansas City KS, population around 13,000 in my youth. In the 50s and into the early 60s, there were still one-room rural schools in operation in that county with grades 1-8.