Woolworth Five And Dime Stores
When you walk into the new woolworth s on 5th you are immediately engaged in the story of this iconic five and dime.
Woolworth five and dime stores. Grant and mccrory s may be gone but you can still find classic five and dime stores to relive the glory days of the variety store. Oct 8 2015 explore cindy griffith s board the old five dime stores followed by 562 people on pinterest. See more ideas about the good old days childhood memories my childhood memories. Knox and co s 5 10 cent stores.
It may surprise many americans who grew up at five and ten stores that the store name wasn t just meant to connote inexpensive merchandise. Get your fill of penny candy and nostalgia with this look back at 5 and 10 cent stores from the past and some that are still around today. Mar 12 2018 explore m hauck hauck s board woolworth dime stores on pinterest. See more ideas about old things olds the good old days.
Woolworth company often referred to as woolworth s or woolworth was a retail company and one of the original pioneers of the five and dime store it was among the most successful american and international five and dime businesses setting trends and creating the modern retail model that stores follow worldwide today. It was the store s rigid pricing policy. At the powell street store which opened in 1952. Woolworth the last of the big dime stores called it quits yesterday ending an era in retail history and shuttering a san francisco landmark.
Five cent coin is called a nickel. Woolworth s cousin seymour knox ran a similar chain of stores called s h. Five and ten and fifteen cent turkey dinner. Frank winfield woolworth had seen the success in michigan and western new york of so called nickel stores where everything cost five cents the u s.
The common term in north america for a small general merchandise store is general store. Amsterdam new yorklibrary of congress. A nickel or dime would buy any item in the store. Woolworth brought america the five and dime stores variety store 5 10 five and dimes these stores go by many names flickr variety stores in general have a long history with a lot of demand sustaining them.
Knox had more than. On 22 february 1879 woolworth opened his great five cent store in utica new york and it was.