Woolworth's: The World's First Chain Store - Looking Back Over the Landscape of Americana
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- Опубликовано: 11 янв 2022
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I remember going to La Crosse, WI a few times a year as a child. Mom would shop at Woolworth's for our school shoes and various items. We would stop after and have a hot dog and chocolate milk at the lunch counter. Shopping there was a fond memory growing up. We would also make our rounds to Jupiter's and during the holidays Grant's which also had a lunch counter. They had a little food cart there where you could get a small paper bag of warm, roasted cashews. Shopping in those days was a family time adventure because we did so only a few times at year. Family picnics and drive-in movies were also family time. As was church on Sunday and visiting relatives. We also spent time picking night crawlers and catching fireflies and toads. It is sad that so many children now grow up with their faces stuck in technology.
I, remember Woolworth Stores in the Detroit area and in the Suburbs. Also, Woolworth Stores in the State of Michigan.
Toledo had them too. I remember one at Miracle Mile Shopping Center, Woodville Mall and their downtown location with a basement.
So many good memories of Woolworth's. Especially the luncheonette. I'd sit at the window people watching through all seasons, Christmas being my fave. Loved their chocolate malts and grilled cheese sammies. The smell when you walked in the door. They should sell it as a room freshener!
When we were very young, my mom would treat my brother and me with a Saturday afternoon going to a Disney matinee and lunch at Woolworth. I loved the hamburger platter most. Then, she'd let us choose something from the toy department like paper dolls, pinwheels, etc. Fond memories.❤
@@angelagoodwin5758 somebody should write a book of Woolworth's memories!
Woolworths used the name "Woolco" for a shortlived chain of supermarkets in the UK, (one appears in the movie, Glitterball) then breifly as a catalog shop chain. But their department stores were called "The Big W".
You 100% sure your not confusing countries. Big W is a Woolworths Australia discount department store chain; still up a d running, and the Australian Woolworths actually isn't related to with the British or US chains.
I'm from NY and we always called it the 5 n dime.
@@andyrob3259 Yup, look on Google images and you'll see the UK Big W.
@@kathymcel Interesting, was it just for Woolworths that name, or for all similar stores?
Awesome history lesson! I would have never believed that Woolworth is grandfather of footlocker. Woolworth reminds me of my mom taking me and brother to Kmart in the late 70’s-early 80’s shopping for clothes and school supplies. Kmart had a small food restaurant area. 👍
When I was a kid I got my Matchbox car collection from Woolworths. I always preferred them to Hot Wheels. And they had the best hot dogs at their lunch counter. We just called it the dime store. In the early 70s the one near me closed down and became a music store where my mom bought my first guitar. I used to go in and study the sheet music, until they got hip to my game and told me I had to buy or move on. I used to pick up my newspapers at that same store front.
Now it is an empty lot among other empty lots in what used to be a vibrant shopping district. I just flat out miss those times. I drove through my old neighborhood for the last time five years ago. I'll never do it again. But here's to Rexall's, Woolworths, A&P, and all the other stores we used to haunt when I was a kid.
as a kid. my mom used go shopping at Publix. i get bored so i walked over to Woolworth and check out the toy's & the nes games. it was sad to see Woolworth's closed down. this store will always be a part of the American history.
My family and I used to go to Woolworth's when I was little. We had one on what used to be Sears Town (now Sable Palm Plaza)in Fort Pierce, Florida. I miss that store. It was awesome.
I remember going in woolworths eating at the in store diner - it was cozy and right. Come back woolworths.
I enjoyed your video. Thanks for posting.
I remember my neighbor ( African American woman ) Mrs watts worked at Woolworths with my Aunt and I would visit during lunch on weekends and we would all eat together just us girls mid to late 60s until I went to college
*Native Black American" or U.S. Freedmen (our formal federal status title) not "African American" (children of Black immigrants). African American in a 1980s fabricated term. We say native Blacks because we are the domestic presence here directly connected to federal treaties like the 1866.
They didn't change their name to Footlocker. Woolworth bought Kinney Shoes who started Footlocker and that's how the name Woolworth lives on.
Thank you for your presentation , I watched all of it .
Another great video. When we were kids in the 70s our grandparents would take us to the mall. Mostly we would just walk around window shopping but we also hit Woolworth. They had a motorized display that turned displaying old coins. My grandpa would let us pick one. Maybe an indian head penny or a buffalo nickel. Then over to Fannie Farmer for a sack of chocolate covered raisins and more walking.
We had a Woolworth's in my home town , I remember they had balloons at the lunch counter they had little slips of paper in them and if you bought a banana split you picked a balloon , they popped the balloon and that paper slip would say how much you would pay and that was anywhere from a penny up to fifty cents...
“And stay out of the Woolsworth’s”…..line from oh brother where art thou.
There was a local woolworths when I was a kid and friends mom worked there. Every toy or bike they had came from there. And yes, there was later a Woolco box store that appeared not long after Kmart did. Sadly, all gone now.
Cardboard mashed potatoes with brown gravy. I kinda miss it, and the fact they always had fish and birds for sale too.
Got my first non-portable CD player at Woolworth's.
I remember Woolworth's and another store that was the competition named, J.J. Newberry.
I'm a little bummed you didn't mention more about Watertown, NY and the store he worked in also called "Five and Dime"; the place that inspired him.
They still have Woolworths in Australia🇦🇺
This store is still in Friesen germany
So the advent of the more efficient Walmart's and Costco's killed it?
I worked at a Costco Wholesale here in Phoenix! Costco Wholesale is ten times better, all I didn't like about them was their racist hiring preferences!
Woolworths Australia still exists and operates one of our largest supermarket chains (995 stores) and a large discount department store chain called Big W (176 stores like Walmart but without food). But our Woolworths (or Woolies as we call it) is in no way related to the US chain.
Woolworth's has no business being in Australia and the Aborigines over there should OPELY REFUSE TO SHOP THERE!
I'm not sad to see and hear that Woolworth's is going onto decline! That's a suitable punishment that was INEVITABLE! Here in Arizona, Black Americans were getting beaten at public lunch counters and publicly humiliated same as in Greensboro. Jim Crow was just as pervasive out here in the state of Arizona as it was in South! We were even getting denied service at the "Mexican" restaurants out here back in the 60s! The Eurasians, Dawes Rolls "Indians" and Hispanics were going to school with, in intermarriages with, and living in the same neighborhoods as Anglos, all legally classified as white, too!! But claim they ever truly had it so rough and won't stop comparing their fake struggles to our STILL ONGOING NATIONAL CRISIS? Yet my people are still obsessing over them too?! Why my people were so stupid to fight for integration when we were already "integrated" on the plantations and battle fields, we already had nice neighborhoods, we had BANKS and family-owned businesses of our own is beyond me. Why my people still obsess over "not Black people" like they are the end-all-be-all, God's gift to Negroes and think having children with the relatives of these virulent racists is an accomplishment and is "fixing racism" when really? That same mixing obsession is making things worse, complicating our ancestral restitution claims and thinning out our gene pool, is beyond me. I don't shop at any parent or sister companies of Woolworth's either that are still in operation. Nobody else should be making any "hate" claims in this country when it has always been PAINFULLY OBVIOUS that everyone else is against Black people, with an emphasis and specific negative fixation upon FREEDMEN, AMERICAN Black people. The abuse and degradation of Black consumers, mainly AMERICAN Black consumers, is not the same as everyone else who has been allowed to have their communities, their ethnic enclaves UNBOTHERED and are getting away with their organized crime activities. Why my people gave up what remained of our communities after the century and a half of the arson, bombings and pillaging of our districts like legendary Greenwood in Tulsa is EVEN MORE BEYOND me when we could've had a tourism tax base. To HELL with Woolworth's, and the same goes for all other corporations that owe Black Americans trillions of dollars in reparations and instead has chosen to suck up to China and Mexico, invest in illegal aliens, work with cartels and push other unlawful and cruel agendas!
I WANT THESE EVIL INSTITUTIONS TO END! ZERO RESPECT for Woolworth's!
OK, wanna get into this??? this country was built on the backs of immigrants, people who werent indigenous to the country. I'm part native and my great ancestors lived here long before immigrants took over the country. My ancestors were rounded up and given parcels of land to live on, gone were the freedoms that the constitution guaranteed every man. Any ways, the issue I have is blacks insist that their way is best. Immigrants brought their customs and traditions but they found a way to integrate them into what america was. Black people dont do this, they refuse, its seen as a weakness in their race. I see it every day, black people feel their entitled to do as they please without any regard to the fact that we all have to live together and coexist. I have no issue with race but I have strong issue when you push your beliefs in my face and attempt to make us accept your way of life. You wanna gain more acceptance, stop being so racist, stop your hoodlum way of life, stop with the disrespect you show others every day. this aint africa we arent tribal here. you wanna be that way, hauls your butt back to africa, this is america, we show respect to everyone in some form or another, we value the diversity and grow from it, we value life for the most part and dont go shooting up neighborhoods over some stupid issue. learn to blend with society, learn to accept your personal faults and take responsibilities for your shortcomings be whatever they are. quit blaming others when things dont go your way - thats life, it ant always fair but you grow as a person and your eyes widened to see things for how they really are. wanna call me a racists, i dont care, i am who i am and i care about people around me and even the strangers i meet. show some humility from within and things will change.
How old are you??
@@kathymcel im 56, ive been living long enought to see the stuff i described on an every day basis.
how old are you?
Yeah nothing like a left wing racial diatribe thrown out for everything. I’m sick of hearing your bullshit. You’re never satisfied. The country has basically been handed to the blacks on a platter and for what good has it done? We wants reparations! Give us money because of slavery! Nobody alive has been a slave or slave owner since 1863! Shut up and get over it and demanding handouts and complaining and burning cities and blaming the cops for black behavior. You act like an animal, you get treated like one whether you’re black, white, red, yellow or polka dotted.