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The historic Woolworth’s building, reopening as early as August 15, is going to have a lot of music, as its basement stage ...
Woolworth’s in Center Square had a soda fountain “so long it could seat 50 people.” Sun Ray Drug Store was smaller but perfect for a “cozy snack experience.” ...
Nothing of the old Woolworth’s except the early-century architecture, protected by official historic building status – and the original 1950s-vintage soda fountain.
“When I was a young man back in the ’20s, Woolworth’s used to stay open until 10 at night and I’d take the girls there to the soda fountain,” said 86-year-old Tellis B. Weaver as he left ...
But by the 1980s, the Woolworth lunch counter — the last one still operating in downtown Wichita — was frequented mostly by a core group of regulars, some of whom would visit every day.
There’d be the classic wood-floored Woolworth’s on Belair Road in Overlea, where my mother would take me 40 years ago to pop a balloon to determine the price we’d pay for a soda fountain treat.
Before you go inside Woolworth on 5th, look at the enlarged black-and-white photograph displayed in the storefront window left of the entry.In that image, taken in 1960, is a young African ...
In June of 1921, F. W. Woolworth Company opened a new 5, 10, and 15 cent store on the corner of E. Houston and Alamo Streets, where the Maverick Bank Building once stood. The $225,000 building had ...
Garrett Davis’ documentary on Greensboro Woolworth 1960 lunch counter sit-in “The Man Behind ... wearing a busboy’s paper hat and carrying a tray past the soda fountain — an accidental ...
Few memories are sweeter for Carol Sherman than time spent at the soda fountain at Collins Corner Store in Berwick. “It was the place to go for the best 5- and 10-cent cherry or chocolate Coca ...