#f.w. woolworth

[retropopcult]

Winter Haven's Northgate Shopping Center, April 1959

[postcard-from-the-past]

F.W. Woolworth sales force in Holland, MI, US

American vintage postcard

[baseballbybsmile]

1952 Topps Baseball Cards on display at F.W. Woolworth! ~ Let's fire up the time machine and go!

[citizenscreen]

The first F.W. Woolworth store was opened by Frank Winfield Woolworth on February 22, 1878 in Utica, NY. #OnThisDay It was marketed as “Woolworth's Great Five Cent Store.” Pictured various Woolworth’s.

[the1920sinpictures]

1925 “Police Parade” passes F.W. Woolworth & Company. From New York City History and Memories, FB.

[mote-historie]

1954 Barbara Hutton the granddaughter of F.W. Woolworth, and heiress to the department store chain, sits with her poodle. Getty Images.

[vintage-tech]

The classifieds from The Tacoma News Tribune, year uncertain at this moment (I'd have to go through my scans folder since this copy was just titled "more.jpg") but 1960s, and it's clearly gendered.

HFC: The company still exists. The Villa Plaza mall does not.

This shopping center replaced the Catholic girls' school, Visitation Villa, that stood on the 100-acre property between 1923-1954. Tacoma developers Norman Iverson and Associates acquired the land from the Sisters of Visitation Order for $500,000. They spent $7 million to build the shopping center's first section that included 23 businesses configured in a U-shape around which was acres of free parking. The first portion of the development took up about 50 acres. Anchor tenants in 1957 included: J.C. Penney, Rhodes Brothers, Lerner's, W.T. Grant, F.W. Woolworth and a Firestone Tire Store. Villa Plaza Shopping Center operated from 08/1957 until c. 1985. In 1985, a local developer, Basil Vyzis, bought the complex and promptly tore it down to build Lakewood Mall, which opened for business in 1989. Lakewood Mall, in turn, languished, and was largely demolished in 2001. The Lakewood Towne Center complex was developed in 2002. [source]

Scotty's Cafe: Was established in 1930, and the location [29 Tacoma Ave North] would later become home to The Harvester.

A&W on Sixth Avenue: No longer exists after A&W scaled back operations in the 1980s-1990s. Amused by how they seek single female high school students, single female college students, but married female adults... when it's the single female adults that really need the jobs to support themselves. *shrug*

Vet receptionist: The listing doesn't say what clinic this was for, or include that you must love dogs (and cats, and tolerate reptiles and birds, and be ready if any barnyard animals were brought in).

[libraryofva]

Recent Acquisition - Postcard Collection

When You Play in the Game of Love. ... Our Pianist will Play it on Request. F.W. Woolworth Co's, 5 & 10c. Store.

[whenweallvote]

On February 1, 1960, four North Carolina A&T State University students — Ezell Blair, Jr. (Jibreel Khazan), Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil and David Richmond — walked to downtown Greensboro and “sat-in” at the whites–only lunch counter at F.W. Woolworth, a segregated retail store. When they were inevitably refused service, they sat peacefully in place until the store closed. 

Their actions that day sparked a sit-in movement that eventually spread to 55 cities in 13 states, desegregating lunch counters one-by-one across the nation and galvanizing a student movement.

𝗕��𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿, 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝘃𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿, 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝙝𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀.

[alex99achapterthree]

Remember this?

The lunch counter in a F.W. Woolworth department store back in the sixties.

Where I lived it was G.C. Murphys, but it looked exactly the same. These were the days before fast-food joints but there were lunch counters in the big stores and little restaurants scattered around where you could get a quick, reasonably-priced meal. I remember sitting on those swivel stools and eating hamburgers and fries washed down with a grape drink out of that machine over the ladies shoulder, all for maybe a dollar seventy-five.

I still miss them.

[retroclixs]

F.W. WOOLWORTH Lunch Counter Menu. #retroclixs #nostalgia #vintage https://www.instagram.com/p/CpOfulCrWCo/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 4.13

Beer Birthdays

Joseph Bramah (1748)

Albert C. Houghton (1844)

George Gund II (1888)

Julie Bradford Johnson (1953)

Ray McCoy (1960)

Andreas Fält (1971)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Don Adams; actor (1923)

Peter Davison; actor, "Dr. Who" (1951)

James Ensor; Belgian artist (1860)

Al Green; R&B singer (1946)

Thomas Jefferson; 3rd U.S. President (1743)

Famous Birthdays

Lyle Alzado; Denver Broncos DE, actor (1949)

Samuel Beckett; Irish writer (1906)

Lou Bega; pop musician (1975)

Peabo Bryson; pop singer (1951)

Alfred Butts; Scrabble game creator (1899)

Jack Casady; rock bassist (1944)

Teddy Charles; jazz vibraphonist (1928)

Bill Conti; composer (1942)

Jana Cova; Czech porn actor, model (1980)

Erich von Daniken; writer (1935)

Stanley Donen; film director (1924)

Tony Dow; actor (1945)

William Henry Drummond; Canadian poet (1854)

Guy Fawkes; English conspirator (1570)

Edward Fox; actor (1937)

Bud Freeman; jazz saxophonist (1906)

Amy Goodman; journalist, writer (1957)

Dan Gurney; auto racer (1931)

Jeanne Guyon; French mystic, founder of Quietism (1648)

Seamus Heaney; poet (1939)

Garry Kasparov; chess player (1963)

Howard Keel; actor (1919)

Davis Love III; golfer (1964)

Ron Perlman; actor (1950)

Philippe de Rothschild; French winemaker (1902)

Rick Schroder; actor (1970)

Paul Sorvino; actor (1939)

Jon Stone; Sesame Street co-creator (1931)

Lyle Waggoner; actor (1935)

Max Weinberg; drummer (1951)

Eudora Welty; writer (1909)

F.W. Woolworth; merchant, 5&10 cent store creator (1852)

[lboogie1906]

Franklin McCain (January 3, 1941 - January 9, 2014) was born in Union County, North Carolina. He grew up in DC but returned to his native to attend college at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. He and his roommate, David Richmond, had followed the progress of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and felt that they should do something to contribute to the movement for social change. On Monday, February 1, 1960, he joined the rest of the “A & T Four” (Joseph McNeil, Ezell Blair, Jr., and Richmond) in sitting at a segregated F.W. Woolworth lunch counter. The following day, two dozen students from North Carolina A&T and Bennett College joined the protest. By the end of the week, 3,000 students were picketing in downtown Greensboro. The movement rapidly spread to 54 cities in nine other southern states.

McNeil, Richmond, Blair and he agreed that their anger at injustice had been transformed into a commitment to resist oppression. He and his friends watched the protest turn into a community-wide effort. Support for the demonstrations came from Dudley High School, and the local NAACP, and although “the [A & T] Administration was subjected to various types of pressures to keep us in line,” A & T President Warmoth T. Gibbs refused to discipline the students. He said that he loved Dr. Gibbs “as a human being and as a teacher.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. attributed the increased momentum of the civil rights struggle to the implosion committed by youth, signaled by the actions of McCain and his friends. The “Greensboro Four” soon lent their support to the formation of the SNCC under the leadership of Ella Baker at Shaw University. They became national symbols of the struggle for racial justice.

After graduating from A & T as a chemist and biologist he was hired by Celanese Corporation. He married Betty Davis, had three sons, and continued to be an oral historian of the movement. He was a member of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #sigmapiphi

[baseballbybsmile]

1952 Topps Baseball Cards on display at F.W. Woolworth! ~ Let's fire up the time machine and go!

[belinchak22]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Two perfect F.W. Woolworths vintage maroon and white serving bowls (Korea).

[chstylellc]

On Feb. 1, 1960, four North Carolina A&T students initiated a peaceful, civil rights sit-in protest at the F.W. Woolworth Department Store lunch counter in Greensboro, igniting a national movement. #theysatsoIcouldstand #aggiesdo💙💛