The lunch counter existed from the time that F.W. Woolworth opened in 1912 at 205 E. Douglas until it closed on Dec. 22, 1990, a month ahead of the 12,000 square-foot store.

Near Manhattan’s Stuyvesant Town, an apartment-city of some 26,000 inhabitants, F. W. Woolworth opened a self-service store where shoppers picked prepriced wares from clerkless counters ...

F.W. Woolworth, J.J. Newberry and W.T. Grant were familiar “variety store” names in 20th century America, operating hundreds of stores nationwide that sold everyday goods ranging from bath ...

Rochester’s newest and one of the largest retail stores, the F. W. Woolworth store, at South Broadway and Second Street SW, will be open for business on the morning of Feb. 9.

The building that housed Fond du Lac's location at 74 S. Main St. was first built in 1890 for J.C. Whittelsey's dry goods business, before F.W. Woolworth Co. combined the dry goods store with its ...

WOOLWORTHS SEEKING DOWNTOWN LOCATION: An official of the F.W. Woolworth Co. said Thursday the company would like to continue operating a store in downtown Sioux City after its present store is ...

More: Palace Theater, one of Louisiana's most endangered sites, slowly being restored F.W. Woolworth Co. operated a chain of "five-and-dime cent stores" and began in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in ...