Main Street Fond du Lac from around 1970, as depicted in Tracy Reinhardt's book "A Nostalgic Trip Down Main Street" for the Fond du Lac Historical Society. FOND DU LAC — Throughout the first half of ...
A new five-and-dime store opened on a rainy July 2, 1902, at a double storefront at 217-219 First Ave. East in Cedar Rapids. The Woolworth’s opening got billing in The Gazette that day. “An immense ...
Do you remember Woolworth’s store on Main Street? The KeyBank is now located where Woolworth’s was in the 1970s. In 1972 a dangerous fire destroyed the Woolworth building. The fire began before ...
(GREENSBORO, N.C.) -- Sixty-two years ago, four Black college students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. Their actions that day reverberated ...
Nickel parakeets and grilled cheese: welcome to the world's most famous five-and-dime -- Early years of the merchant prince -- Birth of Woolworth's "great five-cent store" -- Frank sires a ...
One hundred years ago, Woolworth opened a three-story San Antonio store to the public with promises that no item would cost more than 15 cents. On Friday afternoon, June 3, 1921, the store opened with ...
When the F. W. Woolworth store on North Street closes out in late July, the career of its longest-term worker will also end. Miss Cora M. Chapman, who went to work there "right out of school," retires ...
Working for 58 years in retailing would be enough to raise the blood pressure, flatten the feet and give a person a dim view of human nature. But for Mary and Cora Chapman, their 58 years (combined) ...
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The 5 department store lunch counters boomers still talk about
There's something about sitting at a lunch counter that younger generations just don't get. Sure, we have food courts now.
A roast turkey dinner with giblet gravy, cranberry sauce, creamy whipped potatoes, buttered vegetables, a hot Cloverleaf roll and butter, a drink and dessert. The cost: 25 cents. A pick-a-balloon ...
Frank Winfield Woolworth, an ambitious 27-year-old from Watertown in Northern New York, stands on the north side of Bleecker Street in Utica — near Genesee Street — and has a good feeling that he has ...
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