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9 unusual facts about F. W. Woolworth Company


An Awfully Big Adventure

Stella has no interest in schoolwork, so her uncle, who sees a theatrical career as being her only alternative to working behind the counter at Woolworth’s, signs her up for speech lessons and pulls the strings to get her involved at a regional playhouse.

Buckingham railway station

Woolworths opened a store in Buckingham in February 1964 and operated a policy of moving their goods by rail.

Clarence Harris

He grew up and attended high school in Durham, North Carolina, where he began his career at the F. W. Woolworth Company store, in 1923, as an assistant stock room manager.

Clarence Lee "Curly" Harris (1905-1999) was the store manager at Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina, during the 1960 sit-ins.

F. W. Woolworth Company

This was the same year as its competitors opened similar retail chains that sold merchandise at a discount: the S.S. Kresge Company opened Kmart, Dayton's opened Target, and Sam Walton opened his first Wal-Mart store.

February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four

Nationally broadcast on Independent Lens on PBS, it tells the story of The Greensboro Four, four young college freshman, Joe McNeil, David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Ezell Blair Jr. now Jibreel Khazan, who staged a sit-in at Woolworth's in 1960 to protest segregation practices.

Gérard Dufresne

Under his tenure, the old City Market (located downtown) was demolished to make room for a Woolworth's retail store and Boulevard Royal was extended to the current location of the Biermans movie theater.

Kingston Centre

This move, combined with the disappearance of smaller department stores including Biway Stores, Family Fair, Marks and Spencer, Zellers and Woolworth, left Kingston Shopping Centre without a department store anchor.

Lebanon College

In 1997, Donald Wenz was named the college's tenth president, and launched a "Campaign for Renewal" to purchase and renovate the old Woolworth's building in downtown Lebanon.


Chain store

By the early 1920s, the U.S. boasted three national chains: A&P, Woolworth's, and United Cigar Stores.

Eastmont Town Center

Eastmont's primary anchor tenants were JCPenney, Mervyns, Woolworth's (including a lunch counter), Safeway, Pay 'n Save and Kinney Shoes, one of the nation's leading shoe retailers at the time.

Frank Winfield Woolworth

Frank Winfield Woolworth (April 13, 1852 – April 8, 1919) was the founder of F. W. Woolworth Company (now Foot Locker), an operator of discount stores that priced merchandise at five and ten cents.

Lily Renée

She took whatever odd jobs she could get to raise money, including painting boxes with Tyrolean designs, posing as a model for fashion illustrator Jane Turner, and illustrating the Woolworth's catalog for 50 cents an hour.

Monoprix

The closest comparison to Monoprix for American and British customers might be the old-style Woolco /Woolworths stores in both countries, which combined Woolworth's non-food range with a supermarket offering, or the Fred Meyer chain in the United States' Pacific Northwest.

Shawnee Pottery

The first products were primarily decorative items like figurines, cookie jars and vases which could be found in "five and dime" stores, such as F. W. Woolworth Company, S.S. Kresge and McCrory Stores.

The Maine Mall

In 1997, Woolworth and Lechmere both closed; within a year, they were replaced by Linens 'n Things and Best Buy, respectively.

The Mall at 163rd Street

In addition, it sported forty-nine outlets, including Food Fair (later Pantry Pride), J. C. Penney, M and M Cafeteria, Walgreens, and Woolworth.


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