Woolworth Five And Dime Stores
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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. On 22 february 1879 woolworth opened his great five cent store in utica new york and it was. See more ideas about old things olds the good old days. Knox had more than.
Woolworth s cousin seymour knox ran a similar chain of stores called s h. 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. Five cent coin is called a nickel. Amsterdam new yorklibrary of congress.
Oct 8 2015 explore cindy griffith s board the old five dime stores followed by 562 people on pinterest. At the powell street store which opened in 1952. 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. Woolworth the last of the big dime stores called it quits yesterday ending an era in retail history and shuttering a san francisco landmark.
A nickel or dime would buy any item in the store. 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. It was the store s rigid pricing policy.
The common term in north america for a small general merchandise store is general store. Five and ten and fifteen cent turkey dinner. See more ideas about the good old days childhood memories my childhood memories. Knox and co s 5 10 cent stores.
The menu features a mix of traditional southern fare like pot roast. 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.