F. W. Woolworth - Life in America
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When you walked in the store you could smell the popcorn. You instantly felt at home. Always a delight to shop there. Sadly their gone,we need stores like that today.
There was always something comforting about these stores. I didn't know others felt the energy also.
@@empressbeaded I still have my Woolworths check cashing card from 76.
We are not alone. Its a part of history that will never be again. We can hope that one day we will go back to learn.
*they're gone
The smell of popcorn and cardboard, that's the smell I was trying to pinpoint. Very distinct . Thank you.
I was just thinking of that
I miss Woolworth that was a classic store
I miss it so much too. Woolworth’s was such an institution back then!!! I miss all the items they used to sell too, so inexpensively but what memories I have of this extraordinary place( “paradise for a little kid with her Nana & a whole five bucks to spend, that she would give me!”) I remember her saying, as I searched & searched for just the right item( had to spend it as a little kid, naturally)”You can save your money Karen you know but I know it is burning a hole in your pocket!” 🤣
@@karenstrycharz1499 do you remember the Ben Franklin 5 and dimes ❓❓❓ sweet memories ❤🙏
It seems along time ago;,;,Woolworth department store: keerese store
@@davidstaudohar3791 Sam Walton used run one before Wal-Mart
Yes. And they had the best bon bon candy. Where did it go?
Boy I remember Woolworths stores in the 1970s.
There was one in downtown Tacoma, WA. The last one I was ever in. 1986+
There were two in Northern Virginia where I shopped. One at Tysons Corner Center (mall) another in Manassas, Virginia.
They were big in England
We had our 2 story ones in the Trumbull Mall (Connecticut) and stand alone in Stamford CT. Trumbull disappeared in '92. Stamford hung in until '97. Wilton CT was a level one story with a lunch counter.
I also have fond memories of Woolworth 🙏
I LOVED WOOLWORTH'S !!!!! ESPECIALLY LOVED THE LUNCH COUNTERS!!! I MISS WOOLWORTH'S
The best hot dogs ever!
But America is so much more vibrant now with its wholesale open immigration, rainbow flags and drag queen story hour.
Only a racist bigot would argue against that.
Me too! That's where I met my husband.
Same! As a kid in 60's Id take the bus downtown in Santa Monica CA to see a movie and then always went to Woolworths to look around and to eat lunch. In the 80's both my Mom and my sister worked at a Woolworths in Oxnard CA for several years. Great memories. Very sad the store is gone. Along with so many others. I believe it was done intentionally by the powers that be who own the Big Box billion dollar stores. They were basically squeezed out. If we look around these days we see the same thing with so many stores closed such as K Mart and hundreds of others. Same with Malls closing. With so much online shopping availability you are hard pressed to find many stores to shop in. I would rather go back to the 60's-70's and stay there.
Me too!!
Hot open face sandwiches from the lunch counter --- squishy white bread with choice of turkey, roast beef or meatloaf topped with mashed potatoes and gravy and a canned green beans on the side. Sometimes I'll make this meal just for the comfort of memories.
So do I, lol! Miss those lunch counters.
I loved these also. It’s making me hungry just thinking about it Thanks for the memory jog.
😥 you making me hungry... Loved the treat of a lunch counter meal after the weekly shopping & or new school supplies!! ☺😋😃
@@joeturner3451 I miss those luncheon counters too! Some of my favorite memories!!!!
Wow that brings back memories of time with the grandparents. Thank for that!
As a young kid in the 1960s, my family still referred to Woolworths as “the five and dime.” Nice memories - thank you! 🙏🏼🌿
My grandmother and her friends called it "the 5 & 10"; now I know why 😄
I heard of five and dime stores but I never thought Woolworth was one.
Same!
..we called them the 5 & 10...same thing..prolly regional differences...
Even in the 80’s my mom would always say “get in the car, we’re going to the dime store.” Must have just been habit from when she was a kid in the 50’s and 60’s.
My grade-school pals and I sat at the lunch counter one day and noticed balloons had been strung up overhead. I believe a sign informed us that we could pick a balloon and if a ticket was inside we would win whatever was written on it. I picked one and won a free banana split! You don't forget things like that!
That Pick A Balloon was great!..I won a hot dog 🌭fries & drink🥤once..👍
@@stevedeleon8775 I admit I would've been pretty thrilled with a free hot dog/fries/drink. But for a kid to win a FREE BANANA SPLIT!? Life couldn't get much better! Get away with your weak hot dog meal! :)
@@alevine1951 Wow dude congratulations on your banana split..so much for my meal 😰
@@stevedeleon8775 Not sure if you took me seriously or if you were kidding me back, so fyi I was kidding you. But I was impressed that you remembered the name of the promotion! You know Steve, over the long decades, remembering my delight at being informed what I won, and the image of the waitress presenting me with that heaping banana split...well, it's gotten me through some tough times... :)
@@alevine1951 I'm a Capricorn so yeah I was joking with you BUT I had you thinking🤪😅🤣
I would go to Woolworth's with my grandmother on the weekends during the summer. We always sat at the lunch counter for a snack. I miss those days.
Me to
Ohhhh Myyyyy Goshhhhh Kerry! Me too! My beloved Nana would say “Would you like to “have a bite to eat”, as we walked through the “five & dime”( what she called it)? Naturally, I always did 🤣& we would sit at the counter, ordering a sandwich & a chocolate ice cream soda! Other times we would get their hot fudge tulip sundae!!!! My favorite memories are tied with my dear Nana & I having lunch together at that luncheon counter. She would say to me this little poem “I scream, you scream, we all scream for 🍨 ice cream!”
My grandmother and I also frequented the lunch counter. Such good times. As a teen, madras shirts that bled when washed were the “It” thing to wear, but we couldn’t afford it. One day I was at Woolworth, and behold, there were a small rack of madras shirts, and I was able to get one at that famous low Woolworth price. Too bad that fad did not last. I loved that shirt.
@@lindabroad7391 “Ohhhhhh Myyyyy Gosh Linda! Me too! 🤣My grandmother would buy me a few of the “in clothes” for there was 7 of us, we lived with my Nana & parents divorced. I was so excited that she bought me two “ in dresses”( shifts they called it, back then ha!) from “STEIGERS”( upscale store in western Massachusetts at the time) when I was 16 yrs old! I finally had something that was “in.” I don’t think my Nana fully realized the importance of having “with it clothes” at that time in my life. Back in those days everyone was conscious of clothing & what everyone wore at the high school I attended. I know exactly how you felt about madras shirts & pocketbooks ( so in) & wanted them so much! What a great grandmother you had, too!
@@lindabroad7391 I remember madras shirts too! Where did the time go?
I just love watching these videos and they bring back so, many memories.
Remember the grant's hot dog's 😊Were the best
I loved Woolworths, it is a shame it is gone.
It’s gone for good but we still remember him because is truly a legend
Woolworths and tons of other stores that are gone forever.
Woolworth is is doing well in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Still open in 2021.
Woolworth's is still going in Australia and a few other countries, I think the U.S. is one of the few places where it's gone. The company that owned Woolworths in the U.S. outlasted the stores by a few years.
@@howardkerr8174 Another reason I should go to Australia!
Am I the only one continually hitting the pause button to read every ad and every sign? Love this channel, wonderful memories!!!
Agree 100%-all the "old stuff" is fun to read and reminisce. Especially the prices, just wow!
Me too!😁
Wendy Williams Same here! 👍
Lol an eight min video took me 30 mins but loved every minute of it
Yes I do pause
To take a peak.
Well, just because
The past I seek.
Was a simpler time
With thanks and smiles
That would gleeful rhyme
Away the Dot Com miles
So, Wendy I do hope
Your memories U keep,
And help U to aloppe
To restful yestersleep.
i remember meeting my mom for lunch at woolworths she would be on her lunch break and would be heading to work i loved their patty melt! R.I.P. mom i miss you!
Sounds like a great memory.
What a great memory & May all mothers whom have passed( love & miss you “my little mommy!”) “REST IN PEACE!”
My grandmother and I used to go there for lunch quite a bit. They were known for their Patty melts for sure and their chocolate shakes too. And then my grandma would pick up a whole bunch of yarn and sit for hours and make the most beautiful creations. Her hands were the most lovely things I've ever seen because she always made the most lovely things with them. That's what I think of when I think of Woolworths.
So sweet!
Those memories of eating lunch with your mom at the Woolworth's lunch counter will be with you forever. I remember my mom taking me and my twin sister to the Woolworth counter and putting on us on the stool. Our neighbour was the waitress/cook and I'd order spaghetti and she'd open a can of the Libby's/Heinz spaghetti and heat it up. I still eat that stuff to this day. I loved eating in the five and ten cent store!
Back in the 50's, I loved Woolworths as a kid. I always checked out the pet section. The parakeets, canaries, the turtles. My Mom would take my sister and I to lunch at their fountain when we went downtown on Saturdays. I always wanted the Club Sandwich. I was probably 9 or 10. I bought my first Duncan Yo-Yo there. What great memories.
I remember that from early 70’s
Great times
As a kid in the 70s, I loved going to their pet dept too! Odd that I never got a pet there, but I did buy pet supplies years later.
I got my first turtles and aquarium fish there. Loved watching the parakeets.
I remember it to( My grandmother taking me,in the early ‘60’s, here & all the delightful depts they had in the store for a young child to explore. I forgot about all the “birds, turtles, etc for sale but I too loved the club sandwich! Nana would say “Get what you want “ & I couldn’t remember exactly what I ordered until I saw your post! I “did” remember their hot fudge tulip sundae & if I didn’t order that, then it was a chocolate or vanilla ice cream soda but I couldn’t remember what I ordered for lunch! I did not care for open face sandwich’s ( still don’t ha! Don’t like the “wet bread with everything poured over it!”) but when you mentioned the club sandwich, I remembered, that was exactly what I ordered if we were doing lunch! Other times we would stop for just the hot fudge tulip sundaes! How I miss this store! Best memories!💜💜💜💜💜
You just reminded me of the first turtle my mom got for me there. It had a red back with palm tree on it. Even got it a bowl with a incline to walk up. It was something. Good memory.
How I wish Woolworth was still around. Those were the good old days.
What? You don't like rainbow flags on federal buildings, BLM protests, CRT and drag queen story hour?
@@1neAdam12 Don't forget about the illegal immigration that is ruining our country
I miss Woolworth and Service Merchandise.
I can't get enough of this terrific channel! It's the bee's knees!
Very nostalgic and sentimental. Love these vids.
also the Cats Pajamas
And-- the cat’s meow 😸
You're right I stumbled onto this channel and now I can't get enough of it
Me too!!! Fabulous!!!!
There is a Woolworth lunch counter still in operation in Bakersfield, California. The rest of the store is antiques, but the counter itself is old school burgers, fries, and shakes. I've been lucky enough to hit it, a couple of times, in the last few years.
What's the name of the location? That might be enough to get me to go to Bakersfield!
@@joeturner3451 Still called Woolworth's. It's at 1400 19th St, Bakersfield, CA 93301
@@billlonee9470 thx!
That’s really cool! ✌🏻🙂✌🏻
I loved to go to Woolworths at Christmas!!!It was so decorated and Christmassy!
You are absolutely right about that. You must be a true fan and a lover of good music just like me. I miss the old days where songs how so emotional and passionate, it was all about real life style and fun 🤩
As the lyrics to the song "It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas" from the 1950s say: "Take a look at the 5 and 10 / Glistening once again / With candy canes and silver lanes aglow..."
Our Woolworths was turned into an antique mall, but they kept the name and even reopened the lunch counter.
Wow David where was that at?..our Woolworths was turned into a Panera Sandwich/Salad & Soup Bar
@@stevedeleon8775 Bakersfield, CA!
@@davidthomas283 My uncle Flaco Jimenez was part of the Texas Tornados..they filmed & made a 🎵song about Bakersfield...👍
Yes and we still have our Kress across the street from our Woolworth 💥🎉💥🎉💥
@@normasubia6807 Cool 👍
I remember buying Christmas presents as a child. I bought my mother a bottle of Evening in Paris.
Yes, Woolworths with my Christmas club money to buy presents.
Me too! I bought my little brother ( pretty much every yr as a kid!) the Life Savers Book of different flavors! He doesn’t remember it ( 19 months younger than me) but I sure do! Too funny! I have 6 younger brother & sisters but just remember buying for my little brother, my mom & Nana( parents divorced when I was around 10 or so)! Did all my “Christmas shopping there”, as a kid!
I did too 😂😂
Reminded me of the time I bought my mom a gift of toilet water for a dime. I thought it smelled great. My mom's facial expressions told me I was wrong.
Oh wow! There’s a nostalgic memory!
For some reason, after more than 50 years, I often think of the lunch-counter grilled cheese sandwiches with my mom.
There was one in our neighborhood and I like going in there with my grandmother. Simple things we took for granted.
Me too! My Nana took me there as well! I will forever miss her! She told me a long time ago when I was little, that she wanted to do things for her grandchildren while she was alive, for she said “Once she was gone, she would be forgotten!” I will tell you what, I am 71 yrs old now & not one single day has ever gone by that I have not thought of my dear, beloved “Nana!” How blessed I will be if my grandchildren think of me, even one-quarter as much as I have thought of my own dear grandmother. She was an extraordinary woman, a true woman of substance, helping both her children & grandchildren & I strive to do for my own grandchildren, what my beloved Nana did for me!!!!♥️
Am 70 yrs. old and my grandma took me too...
@@karenstrycharz1499 That is a very nice story Karen , God Bless your Nana...I wish I could tell my Nanny how much I love her today, she and Gramp were very good to me...
I'm 62 @ i remember going to Woolworths with my uncle Larry @ buying toys for cheap ! I also remember the lunch counter ! Was the good old times !!!😜
My nana didn't drive ,so she would take all 4 of us on the bus. Ours had a diner in it and we would eat lunch there and then get to pick out a toy. Such fond memories. I thought we were rich. 💖
My mother often referred to going to the "5 and 10 store". You didn't mention one key fact about the Woolworth Building - it was built without a mortgage, paid for in cash. We'll never see that again.
I have such fond memories of my Grandpa taking me to Woolworth’s food counter on 16th street mall in Denver for the best pizza I’ve ever had! I sure miss those days now that I’m a grandpa...
The Denver store was also the worlds largest.
@@davidhamm5626
Oh wow that's interesting.
@@davidhamm5626 WoW! There were at least 2 very large stores in Manhattan, NYC that were 2 or 3 floors. One on 34th St across from Macy's and the bigger store in lower Manhattan which was huge (& not called Wilco). The lunch counter was tremendous!! It eventually became part of the famous NYC discount store Century 21, which unfortunately closed at the end of 2020 due to the pandemic. I bought a large snow-covered Christmas wreath from the 34th St store (for $1 after Christmas in the early 1990s) which I still have and use each December!😸
It is a city block north to south, which , in Denver is about 500 feet, and about 250 feet wide. I think it has 3 upper floors, and 2 basements, but, I cannot lay my hands on the information right now.
@@davidhamm5626 WoW! Wish I had been able to go there. 😿
Thank you for giving us all these good memories from better times.
Only a racist bigot would think America was better then.
@Carl Allen
I was being facetious.
I'm utterly repulsed by the way our world is changing, and it isn't for the better.
You can't even wear a cowboy hat today without the liberal Marxists calling it a symbol of White supremacy.
Woolworth basically invented today's Dollar Store (at a nickel) back in the 1800's!
I would not go that far:: dollars stores a great birthday party stuff
@walter deanovich I go to Farm & Home type stores now, just to get the smell of a Tack Shop of Leather saddles and horse ointment smells to remember when. Smells of past greatnesses. Farm and Ranch life was Best! Woolworth on Saturday, Church on Sunday.
Woolworth’s sold good merchandise, the Dollar Store sells mostly made in China crap!
By comparing it with dollars store; make Woolworth look cheap;; dollars stores more for cheap birthday; Christmas 🎄 holiday present 🎁: : dollars store more discount 💿 cd; DVD; ;; toys etc etc
Years ago during the 60’s,my ex mother-in-law worked @ the candy counter & retired from there. She would bring home the broken pieces of candy bars,that could not be sold. Thank you for this channel.
Now some stores will fire you for taking home food like that -they want it in the trash
@@davidperry7271 yep! Fact! I have even heard of people getting fired because they took perishable items such as bread and sandwiches that will just get thrown away, down to homeless shelters. Times are so different now
They always called it "The Dime Store" when I was a kid.
5 and Dime for me in the 50's.
My grandma called it that
Those were the days I miss them so much💌
@@staceynelson2357 what you really miss is your Grand Mother😊😊😊😊
@@ne1124 oh shut up and mind your own business you troll.
@@robertsullivan4773 It is exactly what my grandmother ( Nana!) called it too... the “five & dime!”
The local Woolworth lunch counter with swivel stools had the best burgers with toasted buns. No tables, just a counter.
Yeah, I liked those swivel seats too !! (as a kid)
😍😛
I remember sitting in the cafe eating pie and drinking coffee one afternoon after Christmas shopping. Ii remember as a young mother buying outfits there for my two young ones. Hated to see it close.
Yes!! I remember the one in westchester square. Such fun memories!
I remember going to Woolworth's in Chicago with my mom to buy my school supplies. I think it was '61 0r '62. I was either 5 or six. She bought me a hamburger, fries and a chocolate milkshake at the lunch counter. I recall the man at the counter poured my shake into a glass and left the metal shaker cup next to it. I looked in the metal cup only to discover more milkshake! My mom said that was mine too. One of the best childhood memories I have. I even remember the paper straws and how they would get soft and soggy and then collapse after a while, then my mom having to ask for another straw.
What a great memory…hanks for sharing! 🙂
Well you brought a tear to my eyes found memories
I used to buy my model kits there in the mid 70s.Loved Woolworths!!
I bought model kits at Woolworths too! I also bought model trains there.
Also bought mine there in the '70"s.
We'd go there 2-3 times a week in 60s and 70s. Bought a lot of 45s, candy, and baseball cards there. My mom even worked in the candy section for awhile. She'd bring home broken chunks the store couldn't sell.
45's. !! Play your favorite one a zillion times !!
Best memories ever!
Who could forget! Ours had a lunch counter turkey with mashed potatoes $.95
10Cent tip!
I had a turkey dinner for $1.89 at the Woolworths in downtown Corpus Christi, Texas, circa 1980. There was also a Woolworths in Padre Staples Mall (now La Palmera), with a Harvest House restaurant, next to Luby's Cafeteria (which will liquidate this year). When I lived in Dallas, I went to Woolworths in Northpark, now a Foot Locker.
WOW 😳
Try leaving a 10 cent tip today.
OMGOSH! My favorite dinner/ supper in the whole world was “turkey dinner “( still is!)! Loved their turkey dinners! Yum! Yum! Yum!
@JAMES LEVINE you are a funny man
I used to love going to woolworths as a kid in the 60's. The wood floor, the smells, the size of the place was just magical. I was sad when that store closed down. The store was in Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland.
I didn’t know they had stores in Ireland. Wow.
R.I.P Woolworth 1879 - 1997
50 years ago I liked sitting at their lunch counter. Great hot dogs and
grilled cheese sandwiches.
God bless USA.
I'm all in
The niceness is gone forever.
Woolworths was our go to store for everything! I never thought it would go away. I still can't believe it's gone!
People miss that and it would be a big hit to revive it.
I will have to pay attention more since today (the day of this posting) is the celebration of Frank Winfield Woolworth passing. RIP Sir!
And, an 'American Original' !!
Soon tho there will be no more, for HIDEOUS NEW WORLD and it's endless cruelties done for fun, will be established and empowered.
(Here, think Soylent Green and those of that constabulary or, the ones in "1984".
Half-way there now, we are. Like it? Hey folks, stand-by for lots, lots more.)
Loved Woolworth's and the lunch counter.
Awesome video. I miss Woolworths.
One of the best 5/10 store ever,I remember my mother always looked forward in going there to shop around and had a bite to eat at their dining area 🏆🥇💝⭐️😃💕😀Even though my mother passed away over 31 years ago,I’ll always cherish her enthusiasm and joy when I comes to enjoying doing small shopping and other fun time pleasures as a family. Those are truly treasured memories that remain in my heart 💝forever 😍😘💕👍👍👍🏆🥇⭐️🌈☀️☺️🙏😌😉
I used to like their lunch counter
Now, there's a store I really miss. The town I lived in when I was 11 years old was too small to have one, so I'd take the bus to a larger town and have lunch (usually a hamburger and an ice cream soda) and then just look around. I'd usually buy some small item or some candy. Dollar stores just don't do it for me. They feel sad, as if nobody cares about the merchandise or the customers.
Treated to root beer floats at the lunch counter of Woolworth’s at Powell and Market Streets after a day of shopping with my aunt downtown.
I remember the chili dogs being the best thing I ever ate.
I have such fond memories of Woolworth. Loved to go there and eat.
So many memories of just smelling the food at the snack bar. I'm a 70's kid and when my mom would go to one of the malls in Memphis, i would beg her to buy me a corn dog and coke/sprite but she refused. Unfortunately, when i was old enough to buy from Woolworths(mid-late 80's), the food wasnt the same.
My dad would stop in to the lunch counter whenever we were running errands for mom and we would get something to eat. They did have great food in the 70s.
Why would anyone refuse eating at Woolworths ?????? Th
One of my favorite stores when I was a teenager !
As a kid in the 60's and 70's i wanted to eat sometimes at Woolworth's lunch counter. But our parents wouldn't pay, thinking of such things as "Frivolous." And my allowance was too low to buy stuff. They did get me some models and a pet turtle from WWS. In 1970 I figured out with Inflation my 25 cent allowance was 1/5 my dad's Depression allowance in purchasing power! Dad's story was how with his nickel he'd get a double or triple scoop cone or see Saturday movies. i went downtown and priced them, me never having had a double cone and had only seen 2 movies, I confronted him. He raised my allowance to 1 dollar 25. A movie i think was 1.50 or 2 dollars. Before then, my brothers and i 'supplemented' our 25 cent allowances by stealing candy.
@@carlcushmanhybels8159 thieves
The last Woolworth I ever went to was located in Nags Head, NC, right next to the beach, long after other Woolworths had closed. I think that was in 1995.
Mine was in Phillipsbirgh NJ. Bought all my Christmas lights there
After the US stores closed, there were still some left in the UK. When I had visited London in the 1990s, I went out of my way to find one and bought candy.
I have spent many vacations in the Outer Banks NC over the last 50 years, just not recently. But I do recall that Woolworth being around Mile Post 10 (give or take), on the 'by-pass' of Route 12. Nice store always.
I remember our Woolworths in downtown Tucson, Arizona..The Little Grill Diner was my favorite section of the store..Hot Dogs🌭 on rotisserie display..blue plate lunch specials..& real scoop ice cream cones🍦
Best grilled cheese sandwiches, cooked on the flat top. It was such a treat.
@@AllieinCali
Yes I remember those days too.
@@AllieinCali Don't forget the delicious Tomato Soup in a Woolworths Mug to go along with that grilled cheese sandwich
Hot dogs on the rotisserie , the BEST. between Woolworth & W.T. Grants which used to across the street from each other, the HOT DOGS were BEST. As both stores had them. Ahhh the good old days.
@@Bigskyguy56 My mother worked for WT GRANTS back in the 1970's /80's I remember those Hot Dogs on a buttered Square Bun & grilled between the Flat Iron 😜 press..🤪
I used to go to Woolworth's with my Mom when I was little, before I started school. We'd always have lunch at the counter.
When I was older, Woolworth's was my go to spot for bargain shopping trips. I once bought Mickey Mouse dolls for my son and two nephews for Christmas.
Pamela Mays+ Mickey Mouse Dolls make wonderful Christmas and Birthday Presents:)!! I too so loved Woolworths as a Child and as a Teenager into Adulthood:)!!!
I worked for Woolworth in Rhode Island for a summer back in 1987.
My Woolworths was in Evanston Illinois on Davis street. I was eighteen, and just moved out on my own. I ate breakfast at the lunch counter all the time before going to work. Not every day, I couldn't afford that, but enough so that I became friends with many of the people who worked there. This went until I was 24 or 25, when I went out of town for a week on vacation and came back to find it closed down. I still miss those breakfasts. Anyone out there remember the Evanston Woolworths?
I would often go there to shop and have a bite to eat. My dentist was close by so I'd wait for my ride at that Woolworths. Lived in Skokie...
@@michelleholmes4330 I was there from the 80s to the 90s, so if you ever saw a guy with long hair either reading a book, or writing in a notebook, there's a good chance it was me.
Hello! You're probably 10-15 years younger than myself. Lol! I was hanging around there in the late 70's. Great hearing from you. Be safe
Remember Woolworths in Waikiki. The food counter had great fried chicken that you could eat in or take out.
And that store had a huge souvenir section on the second floor with a wealth of wonderful cheesy stuff. The Woolworth stores in Hawaii sold a distinctive large paper shopping bag with a hula girl on it. I favored the fried chicken from the Ala Moana Woolworth on the mall level, to the left as you walked in.
the woolworth store had the greatest bacon lettuce and tomato sammies and strawberry sundaes lol. i have so many good memories of those stores.
Almost every town had a Woolworth's when I was growing up. When I would travel to the UK there was one in every High Street in almost every town I visited in England and Scotland. Now, with the pandemic, we've seen a wave of store closings - the upmarket department store chain, Lord & Taylor, almost 200 years since its founding, was only one of many casualties.
L&T's flagship store is missed here in NYC, especially their legendary Christmas windows! 😿
@@larrycj4382 L & T had the best Christmas windows of any of the New York stores. Every December there would be a queue at least a couple blocks long lining up to see the windows.
@@JamesVaughan Yes! So much joy over the years!! The CEO had said that they would still have their planned display for their last Christmas in December 2018 (they closed in Jan 2019). So I went there one night in early Dec 2018 and was HORRIFIED to see red "Store Closing" signs in all but one of the windows! She LIED!! 😾The one window without a closing sign had a computer animated display that was shown a few years earlier of Gingerbread men frolicking around. Except the ending had a much deeper impact, as one gingerbread man came in for a closeup and waved goodbye! 😿 I was not the only teary-eyed one staring in disbelief!! On the 10th floor they had decorative items from store displays & windows including Christmas from as far back as the 1950s. It was like a museum with things scattered all over. I made one last stop a week before Christmas to wave a final goodbye to that Gingerbread man. This time I just let the tears flow. When others saw my reaction, they openly cried too! It was unreal!!! So many like me had said they had been there every year as a kid and told me that. I have photos and many memories from past years that I will cherish forever. One of a polar bear display from 2017 hangs in my bedroom. It has helped me endure the pandemic, as I would remember standing there watching the movement. 😸
@@larrycj4382 I grew up with the L & T store in Millburn, NJ. It was, of course, much smaller than the Fifth Avenue store, but was handy for us as we lived only 15 minutes away. My mother bought most of her clothes there (as did many of the other upper-middle class "WASP" ladies in the area). She would treat my brother and me to lunch in the store's restaurant, The Bird Cage, occasionally . The menu in the 1950s tended towards things like chicken à la king and dainty little sandwiches. Then a waitress would wheel out a dessert cart containing petit fors and fancy pastries. I always remember a wisecrack of my brother's, "I know why they call it The Bird Cage, because they eat like birds here!" The chain seemed to decline around the 1990s or so, losing some of their carriage trade in an attempt to broaden their customer base, and suffering from too many changes in ownership. Really sad, a venerable department store name that never quite made it to their bi-centenary.
@@JamesVaughan You summed up the demise of L&T perfectly. Nice to hear how things went on in Millburn. Wish I could have lunched @ the Bird Cage! For some reason, Manhattan dept. stores were never big on restaurants (except for Macy's & Bloomingdales), until 10-12 years ago. The L&T Manhattan store actually did not have a restaurant until about 12 years ago when a branch of the popular gourmet brunch restaurant Sarabeth's opened. It was a modern decor setting, probably beneath The Bird Cage. I actually had lunch there on my last visit, where it was an oasis hidden from the frenzied crowds of bargain hunters (most Women's items were marked down to $5.99, including evening gowns that retailed for several thousands of $$!!). About 3 years before the store closed, they completed a major renovation of the mens department which cost many millions of $. It was over 2 floors in size and was one of the largest men's departments in the City. They would have a once a year men's sale in June, which I always made sure to attend. The L&T men's brand had a uniqueness of its own, which I liked and am glad I bought some special pieces over the years, some of which were exclusively made only for the Manahttan store. I really miss it!
In Brooklyn we had 2 Woolworths and one Kresges within 6 blocks on the Avenue. We kept them straight by referring to them as the First 5&10, Second 5&10, and Third 5&10. Never bought a turtle from them, but we did get our gold fish, parakeets and canaries there! It was wonderful.
I remember hearing a missionary from France (who came to the USA) that you could even buy a Bible at a five and dime.
Went to the downtown Jackson TN location as a child, and they moved to Old Hickory Mall in the early 70s. Shopped at the Woolco in east Memphis, too. When I married and moved to Chicago in 1985, there seemed to be a Woolworth in every neighborhood. Most of our kitchen ware in our first apartment came from the Woolworth in Uptown. Most of our Christmas decorations did, too!
Yay! I have often wondered about Woolworth's history as it was always a favorite of mine as a child. I will be sharing this with my parents. Thank you!
I went to new York City in 1985 they had one Woolworths left. But it was going out of business didn't have very much left so sad. I did go to the lunch counter and ordered something can't remember what may have been a cheeseburger and chocolate shake. The older I get the more I long for the 1950's again.
Our last Woolworth’s store in Louisville Kentucky closed in 1993-94 and was on Lexington Road in Saint Matthew’s. It was neat inside as it had likely opened in the 1950’s and really hadn’t been updated much. I liked it that way. The building is still there too. Keep up the great work as I’m really enjoying your channel 👍
We'd always go to one around Shively when visiting my aunt and uncle. Last Woolworths I saw was in St Louis in 1995. Really hated to see Woolworths close down.
I remember the Woolworth stores located in Detroit, Michigan were on Gratiot and Seven Mile Road and I remember the Woolworth's on Woodward Avenue in Downtown Detroit had escalators to the 2nd and third floors and had a basement where the customers could shop.
I also remember the lunch counter being called the luncheonette.
I also remember Woolworth stores in up state in Michigan were in Calumet, Hancock, and Sault Ste.Marie.
Woolworth also had a slogan saying:
Woolworth the fun place to shop.
I grew up in Michigan in the 70's, but I honestly don't remember any Woolworth's stores -- just KMart, Kresge's, and the 'dime store' in town was 'Grove's 5c to $1' -- not sure if it was an independent or what, but it was the same basic formula. That's all gone now, the town has changed considerably in the 40 years since we moved away...
@@AndrewAMartin There was a Woolworths, could have been called Woolco inside of Universal Mall in Warren,Michigan.
I grew up in Sault Ste. Marie, and have fond memories of the Woolworth store on Ashmun St. with the lunch counter inside. We would get an order of French fries, because all we had was some small change. My Mother was from Sault, Ontario so we would also go to the Woolco store there. Across Ashmun St, there was a Kresge store. And in Sault Ste Marie Ontario there was a store just like Kresge's, named Jupiter. Where I got my first snowmobile suit.
@@Brvnkaerv I also remember the Kresge store on Ashmum Street, across the street from Woolworth's. There were Jupiter stores in the Detroit area. Back in the day, I used to work for Kmart when S.S.Kresge Company owned Kmart. Back in the day, they were Kresge, Kmart, and Jupiter stores. And, there were the SUPER K CENTERS, Kmart wanted to compete with Meijer and Wal-Mart.
@@davidsquires154 Cool! Are you from the Sault David?
they kept records in a locked showcase...bought a lot of records from them...my cousin worked the lunch counter
My grandma and I would go to the downtown Chicago Woolworths and have iced teas and grilled cheese sandwiches. It was a wonderful treat.
Here in England I went there as a kid 70 years ago. They were around for so long and had so many lovely things that Woolworths became literally the only store chain that people still fondly remember today. It was a special place.
I remember when I was 5 years old and up going in Woolworth with my mom. It was so neat to look at all the stuff. The lunch counter had real food. Yes I agree with others I miss that store and those days. It was sad to see these stores gone and replaced. But hey 120 years is pretty outstanding to be in business.
I also remember the drug stores that had soda fountains. Real ice cream 🍦. Gone are those too. Such a shame.
Thanks for the great video. I enjoyed it alot. Brought back memories.
Wow 🤩, what a memorable time.
I miss those days, it was all about real life style and fun 🤩
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Yes it was about real times. So many memories I hold. The good ole days for sure.
@@cindy4964 How are you? Hope you having a wonderful day. Wow, I’m so excited to hear that from you. I can’t wait to share more good memories with you honestly. I’m Dr Erickson, is my pleasure meeting you here. Thank you for the reply
@@ericksonfedor4765
I'm having a good day. Hope you are having a good day also.
You're welcome for the reply.
@@cindy4964 You seem nice and lovely to be honest with you, would love to know more about you perhaps knowing ourselves will be better and having a good conversation often outside here
I remember calling Woolworth’s asking if they had Prince Albert in a can, and when the came and said “yes”, “I said you better let him out” this passed as humor during my childhood. If I was aware of where to reach these people I would apologize.
Wow, memories of the past make me want to back to those simpler times......
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When I was a little kid early '80s there was still a Woolworth with a lunch counter in Dallas...went there with Nana alot...then it closed. It looked like a time capsule from 1950. Art deco ish decor in the lunch area.
They need to bring five and dime stores back with lunch counters!
Yes !!!!!!! I miss the good ole days !!!!!!!!
Never could they compete with the outrageous prices of today, our cost of food would never happen at the good ole lunch counters.
Right. Even Walmart and Target dont have lunch counters although there's snack bar type areas selling pizza or sub sandwiches kinda stuff. If just will never be the same
As a kid in the 60's I often went to the Woolworth on Dyckman St. in upper Manhattan when I had some money. I still vividly remember the times I sat at the lunch counter and had bacon, lettuce and tomato club sandwich and a chocolate milk. The world I grew up in is disappearing bit by bit.
Sounds like a yummy lunch!
Steve Keeley You are SO right! 😪
There also was a huge Woolworths (two stories) on 181 Street just off Broadway. My neighbor and would go there most weekends.
@@anitaschuloff2557 I remember that one on 181st St. "My" Woolworth's was on 125th St. It was so comforting to find one in Ithaca, NY when I went away for college! Yes, this brings back pleasant memories 😊
Im in NYC and still miss the big Chelsea Woolworths on 23rd and 8th. I needed a last minute gift to bring to an Easter dinner and bought a Venus Fly Trap there!! Best store for that stuff!!
Nothing says Easter like a Venus flytrap. Lol.
I remember being about 3 years old and being frightened by their mannequins. LOL When I was older, about 10 or 11, I bought a parakeet there.
We lost our Woolworth in the mid 90s. It is now an Ace Hardware occupying the same building. It was not a huge store, but it had most basics. There was a lunch counter -mostly attracting the local high school kids in the 50s/60s like my mom. There was a small pet corner I would frequent as a kid in the 70s. Our Main Street has been on life support for the last 30 years... Woolworth, JC Penney, and Gottschalk's were the last iconic/major stores to pull out.
Loved Woolworths! We called it the dime store. Best sandwiches ever. Happy memories with my grandmother. RIP.💖
My Gram and I used to go on weekends. It was a special treat to have lunch at the counter- loved their grilled cheese sandwich.
Use to have my Mom take me there at the end of the week after I got paid my allowance for chores. I would spend it on a brand new plastic car model kit. Thanks for the memories! Talking mid 1970's.
I remember going to Woolworth's lunch counter with my older brother and picking a balloon and the price inside was what you paid for the banana split, I think it was 5 cents to $1.25, he told me one of his friends paid 5 cents for one.
I love the music.
this channel is full of good childhood memories!! no store like Woolworth today, gone but good memories last a lifetime!!
I grew up near one in a shopping center in San Jose, CA. Apparently, several years before I was taken there they used to have a lunch counter but took it out. The place always had a smell of moth ice and parakeet/hamster cage "messies"!
Most everyone can recall Woolworth's and the simple things that are taken for granted. K Street Mall in Sacramento was the first Woolworth's my siblings and I went to with our grandparents and Woolworth's lunch counter is fondly remembered with their griddle top cooked hotdogs served on a New England split top roll, and plate lunches of fried chicken. Who remembers their dollar bargain basement? When I lived in Germany in the late 80's there was a Woolworth's in the town center, it didn't have a bargain basement, or lunch counter but it had many reasonably priced items and brought back old memories of being a kid. There is a Woolworth's in Bakersfield, CA. that is still open but inside it is an antique mall with consignment items, but on the plus side it still has a fully operating lunch counter.
Oh man, such wonderful memories of that store! The 70's was a great time to be a kid!
I remember Woolworth in the early 80's as a kid they had the best toy department ever. Loved my transformers and He-man collection.
Omg I found it !You guys did cover Woolworths ! this is amazing thank you so much for doing this it is now 2021 things are so awful in this beautiful country 😓 seeing some of these relics bring me so much happiness I miss when we used to respect each other in mind our own business this really does help get my head out of the present thank you!
@Lyniquechunte. Haha. Well stated: when we used to respect each other and mind our own business. I miss that too.
They are still thriving in Mexico!
With lunch counters?
@@captainamericaamerica8090 wow! Thank you!
Oh good, I was hoping someone else knew. I remember going to one in San Luis Potosi in the Plaza Sendero about 10 years ago.
Woolworths, owned by different people, still exists in several parts of the world. Germany still has Woolworths stores. Australia, Woolworths is one of our largest retailers operating 300+ supermarkets and discount department stores and is publicly listed. There’s is yet another Woolworths based and owned in South Africa that operates department stores across the world under several names including Woolworths. All 3 are owned by different groups and are not connected but the name has a common heritage. The British Woolworths of course went bankrupt in the last 20 years.
Why are all the Woolworths in other countries and none in the u s???????? Not fair at all !!!!!! One of my very favorite stores of all time !!!!!!!
Yes, there are some in Mexico, too.
I had ordered my sons entire Christmas from the Woolworth catalog. When I went to go pick up the order, I was told the company had closed and would not be shipping my order. 4 days before Christmas! They kept my money though and I had ask my parents if they had any gifts for my son that I could be from Santa. Thankfully they did.
Wow 🤩, what a memorable time.
I miss those days, it was all about real life style and fun 🤩
The famous five and dime store, later just called the dime store which is what I grew up with.
My first job at nineteen years old, I worked at the lunch counter in Hornell, N.Y. 1966.
Wow 🤩. You must be a true fan and a lover of good things just like me. I miss those days, it was all about real life style and fun 🤩
I was born in Alabama in the early 1950's, and we always called it 'Woolsworth'.
It's a Southern thing.
I from the North and a Child from the 70s into the 80s and we all called it Woolworths too:)!!!
@@wantingoneangel8976 Sorry if I wasn't clear.
We called it WoolSworth.
@@JSBIRD69
Reminds me of the movie
(O Brother Where Art Thou)
@@exit5276 Yes, I got a good laugh out of that scene.
I remember going to woolworth in Albany, Oregon. My mom sent me & a friend with a list of stuff. Whatever change there was I got to get penny candy.
I remember Woolworths and Ben Franklin 5 & 10. They had small bottles of perfume: Ben Hur and
also Blue Waltz.
@@RJ-hx5nb We also had Woolworths in Marinette Wi. I loved going in there on Saturdays before going to the Fox Theater which was directly behind it. If I had money from babysitting, I might get a 45, some candy at the candy counter which they always weighed out with a scoop on the old fashioned scales or if I had enough, maybe a plate of freshly made french fries. I think they were 45 cents. I don't remember Blue Waltz perfume, but I have heard about it so much that I finally bought some on The Vermont Country Store. You get two bottles. Its a very strong almond cherry scent, but I could see how that would really bring back memories.Thats what I truly believe in, memories.
@@Donna-zc9ii Me too, Donna! My girlfriend Lynn & I went to the one in Springfield, Massachusetts on Main Street. My mom would give me enough money to go to the Paramount or Capital Theater ( I also babysat a good five days a wk so money from that too) to watch a movie( two in those days!) & splurge on a “BUTTERCUP POPCORN 🍿 “ with REAL BUTTER( not the oily mess they substitute for popcorn today in theaters. We would then head over to Woolworth’s to buy a 45 rpm record or stick of 💄 lipstick ( gloss or white stuff big in the ‘60’s !!! Best memories ever. We would spend hrs looking at everything Woolworth’s was selling( Johnson’s Bookstore too.... long gone as well!)! Oh......”Best Memories Ever!”
Everytime I found a few pennies I would run to the little country store to buy penny candy 🍬🍭
@@Donna-zc9ii ever hear of Menomminee mich.?
I sooooo love this blog/page & their “OH SO VERY, VERY COOL” videos/posts!!!! How much fun is this & so informative too, giving us the background of some of our favorite memories of our childhood ( for me)! I will forever remember my beloved Nana taking me to Woolworth’s to sit at their luncheonette counter for a hot fudge tulip sundae!!! I so loved Woolworth’s!!!!♥️♥️♥️♥️
Wow 🤩. You must be a true fan and a lover of good things just like me. I miss those days, it was all about real life style and fun 🤩
@@ericksonfedor4765 How right you are! 😁”Best memories ever!!!!” Miss those special times, places & people but they are forever etched into our memories ( & ❤️ heart!”), never to be forgotten! “Take Care!!!!”😁
@@karenstrycharz1499 How are you? Hope you having a wonderful day. Wow, I’m so excited to hear that from you. I can’t wait to share more good memories with you honestly. I’m Dr Erickson, is my pleasure meeting you here. Thank you for the reply
I loved Woolworth stores in the sixties. I loved the food counter. Their pizza a delicious. I remember the scent of the store. The genuine wooden floors worn down from all the years of traffic. It even had a bargain basement store. Good memories.
I had my hand stuck in a gum machine at Woolworth in Milford DE. When I was 4yrs old haha thanks Milford fire department for getting my hand out
Wow 🤩, what a memorable time.
I miss those days, it was all about real life style and fun 🤩
It was a magical store! My Nana would take me there and let me pick out a toy, then we would have lunch there!!! Very special times in Life! 💛
All you great Woolworth's fans i have loved reading these lovely posts whih are every bit as nostalgic as the video. Who doesn't have warm thoughts about going to Woolworths? Nobody! VIVA WOOLWORTHS!
Woolworths is so nostalgic for me:)!! I so remember as a Child with my Brother, my Late Dad, my Mom, and my Late Grandparents all going there:)!! At Woolworths Cafeteria, at 2 Malls they had the most delicious Scrod Fish with al a carte side vegetables and a large serving of hot cup custard for Dessert:)!! I so remember getting cosmetics there as well as some costume jewelry, like the Cameo Charm ( which I still have), some clip on earrings, and at the sad going out of business sale, I bought a purple teddy bear necklace for 75 Cents and I still have it too:)!!! Thank you for this awesome trip down nostalgia:)!!! I do miss Woolworths:(.
They had great lunch counters.I bought the Brach’s pick a mix candy.Filled up the bag too.❤️💖
My first Woolworth's was on the main square in Easton PA, my Mom took us back to where she used to work and we had lunch at the counter. Albuquerque got a BIG Woolco in the early 70's and an entire shopping center grew up around it with a theatre (where I first saw Star Wars) and a Magic Shop. spent a lot of time there. Thanks for that Memory Jolt.
My neighborhood, Queens NY, had a Woolworths with a lunch counter until about 1975. Back then, there was no place else to grab a sandwich.