2007-08-27 03:21:26 · 23 answers · asked by ? 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
LadyG: It was W.T.Grants. Another fun store.
2007-08-27 03:36:38 · update #1
Yesss! I loved Woolworth's. The store I remembered still had wooden floors! I'd buy perfume, bobby pins, cornsilk powder make-up.
I also remember Niesner's, Kresges' (spelling ?), G.C. Murphy's. Boy I'd loved to go into one of those places again. Today's dollar stores can't touch them.
Thanks for the memories
2007-08-27 03:27:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yeah my Mom used to take us for walks down W. Ridge Rd. down from Kodak in Rochester - past a medical appliance store - Abbie Rents. I used to go over to the painted turtles (before Salmonella became a problem) and they had all sorts of things - fish, birds. She'd get me a Matchbox car and we'd have a tuna melt and a soda-pop if I behaved myself. The Community Savings Bank was kitty-corner across the street next to a Carroll's fast food place (changed into Burger King after other reincarnations - a Red Barn farther down on the same side as Woolworth's was fast food too (make your own sundae - {but she didn't want me to see that!}) It was great! I can't remember a better tuna melt. Melted cheese, tuna salad and boom! There it was - with fries on the side - cooling down getting ready to eat.
2015-08-11 09:07:59 · answer #2 · answered by Morgan 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do remember Woolworth's. And something like W C Grant's. I don't think W C is right, but I can't remember what that chain was. Another five and dime store, and that's where I got my first part time job. I remember working in ladies lingerie and on the nights The Monkees came on, the guy working in the TV department would turn all the TVs to that channel so those in the area could watch it.
2007-08-27 03:34:58 · answer #3 · answered by Lady G 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I remember WoolWorths and other five and dime stores downtown when I was a kid. As a kid when all I had was about a dime or less these places were my favorite shopping haunt. They were not air conditioned and the doors were wide open to the sidewalk traffic which was always heavy. We used to buy a cherry coke at one of them, I can't remember which.
Can you believe that times were such that a couple friends and I used to ride the bus 4 miles into the downtown area by ourselves when we were in the the 1st, 2nd and 3rd grades (Jimmy was in the 3rd, I was in the 2nd, Jimmy's sister was in the 1st).
2007-08-27 06:47:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I remember having a Woolworths in a bigger town about 25 miles from here but at the time it seemed like such a long drive,trips like that were saved for doctors appointments in that town and things like that. I remember those days very well!
2007-08-27 03:29:33 · answer #5 · answered by ncgirl 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Sure I do. Our old Woolworth's is now a grocery store. I remember Kresge's too. They both had cafeterias. all of that is now a thing of the past.
2007-08-27 03:47:51 · answer #6 · answered by robee 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I did inventory at a Woolworth's one year during Christmas break.1961 in Oregon.
2007-08-27 03:37:59 · answer #7 · answered by lilabner 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I worked in Woolworth's for a short while
2007-08-27 03:42:54 · answer #8 · answered by Diamond 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I worked at Woolworth's in the customer service/camera department in the early 1990's. They had great sandwiches! Now we have Walmart.
2007-08-27 03:30:38 · answer #9 · answered by mummy heffalump 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
My first in-town regular after school job was sweeping out a Woolworth store and stocking merchandise. 1958-59.
2007-08-27 03:27:24 · answer #10 · answered by Jack P 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋