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The F. W. Woolworth Company (often referred to as Woolworth's or simply Woolworth) was a retail company and one of the 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.
Woolworths closed its doors in the United States in 2001, so American shoppers haven't missed it for years. But recent news in the New York Times that Woolworths is closing all of its 807 stores ...
Kansas City, Missouri 39°04′16″N 94°34′18″W / 39.0711°N 94.5716°W / 39.0711; -94.5716 ( F. W. Woolworth Building (Kansas City, Missouri 1928
At its peak, White Hen had 245 stores in the Chicago region and 55 in the Boston area. White Hen's decline began in 2000, around the time it was sold to Clark Retail Group.
Woolco was an American-based discount retail chain. It was founded in 1962 in Columbus, Ohio, by the F. W. Woolworth Company.It was a full-line discount department store unlike the five-and-dime Woolworth stores which operated at the time.
A crowd fills the seats during a strike inside of the F. W. Woolworth Co. at 1261 Woodward in Detroit, during a strike on March 2, 1937.
Dixie Square Mall was an enclosed shopping mall at the junction of 151st Street and Dixie Highway in the Chicago suburb of Harvey, Illinois, United States.Opened in 1966, the mall featured Montgomery Ward, JCPenney, Woolworth, Walgreens, and Jewel as its anchor stores, with discount store Turn Style joining in 1970.
In 1957, area code 815 was split for the assignment of area code 309 to western central Illinois. No further changes took place for 33 years. In 1989, area code 708 was created for all of the suburbs in the Chicago metropolitan area while the city of Chicago kept the original 312. Area codes 847 (northern suburbs) and 630 (western suburbs) were ...