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Woolworth's
After seeing this Flickr photo of the vacant store on 10th and K in Sacramento...
http://flickr.com/photos/tspauld/87607923/
I took a few photos of my own of that location:
http://dtcwrt.earlracing.com/stores/other.htm
Here are some other locations I've seen on the web...
Country Club Centre, Sacramento (probably long remodeled and reused):
http://flickr.com/photos/87362701@N00/225754410/
Market/Powell, San Francisco, now The Gap:
http://flickr.com/photos/olivander/199591876/
Mission/Harrington, San Francisco, still vacant but sporting original signage:
http://www.mistersf.com/farewell/fwwoolworth.htm
http://flickr.com/photos/ericinsf/55468445/
Some locations mentioned here...
http://tinyurl.com/yhfwkr
707 Clement Street, San Francisco, now a Chinese supermarket:
http://tinyurl.com/yfnksp
(711 Clement is mentioned on the Groceteria spreadsheet and may be same building)
200 West Portal, San Francisco, looks to be Rite-Aid now (I have walked by this store several times):
http://tinyurl.com/y9vw52
The Groceteria spreadsheet mentions a few more for SF...
http://www.groceteria.com/sanfrancisco/ ... sheet.html
2159 Chestnut
http://tinyurl.com/ykj3ne
1650 Polk
http://tinyurl.com/yf9ye8
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Here's a shot from Chain Store Age's July 1966 issue, page E28, of a store in Sheridan, WY:
http://dtcwrt.earlracing.com/stores/csa ... eridan.jpg
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And now, some Flickr photos of other locations...
Preserved store in Bakersfield:
http://flickr.com/photos/string_bass_dave/165741924/
http://flickr.com/photos/string_bass_dave/165741778/
http://flickr.com/photos/naotoj/29418256/
Ferndale, 1928 and now:
http://flickr.com/photos/kbreenbo/90500952/
Reno:
http://flickr.com/photos/nancyo23/168553261/
http://flickr.com/photos/scottschrantz/39126264/
Greensboro (the one where the sit-in occurred)
http://flickr.com/photos/spcoon/119601475/
http://flickr.com/photos/amberlrhea/271430974/
http://flickr.com/photos/spcoon/119601249/
http://flickr.com/photos/spcoon/170110612/
http://flickr.com/photos/dragonflysky/121652675/
Somewhere in Oregon:
http://flickr.com/photos/francesrust/208344616/
Vacant location in Augusta, GA:
http://flickr.com/photos/amberlrhea/222135000/
http://flickr.com/photos/amberlrhea/222134976/
http://flickr.com/photos/idyllopuspress/198846552/ - 1970s depiction
Asheville, NC:
http://flickr.com/photos/51283283@N00/288613383/
http://flickr.com/photos/milknosugar/291830288/
http://flickr.com/photos/jsigharas/179531781/
http://flickr.com/photos/khalloran/25597680/
http://flickr.com/photos/_edna_million/280018763/
http://flickr.com/photos/_edna_million/280018759/
St. Louis:
http://flickr.com/photos/nickfindley/53980199/
http://flickr.com/photos/nickfindley/53978952/
http://flickr.com/photos/michael-leland/275727117/
Cambridge, MA:
http://flickr.com/photos/jbartok/21390632/
http://flickr.com/photos/dboo/248377852/
Artist's depiction of a Woolworth (NOT Woolco) department store in Hibbing, MN, from Roadsidepictures:
http://flickr.com/photos/54177448@N00/191265522/
Montreal:
http://flickr.com/photos/mikeygottawa/274367229/
Ann Arbor, MI:
http://flickr.com/photos/edward-vielmetti/76481837/
San Antonio:
http://flickr.com/photos/tadsonbussey/93462966/
Wilmington, DE:
http://flickr.com/photos/eilatan/18441453/
Brooklyn (Bedford-Stuyvesant) vintage shot:
http://flickr.com/photos/rachaelnoel/176359903/
Washington, DC (Georgetown):
http://flickr.com/photos/joearchitect/40557233/
Savannah, GA:
http://flickr.com/photos/courtneys/189460816/
St. Paul:
http://flickr.com/photos/uberculture/45146583/
San Diego:
http://flickr.com/photos/osbornb/11244276/
Downtown Los Angeles, now Foot Locker (which of course is what Woolworth's corporate evolved into):
http://flickr.com/photos/jimwinstead/32105996/
Vintage interior drawing:
http://flickr.com/photos/zilf/220223186/
Harrisburg, PA:
http://flickr.com/photos/sethgaines/52252493/
Los Angeles?
http://flickr.com/photos/red_devil/45875527/
Fort Worth:
http://flickr.com/photos/atomicglee/179283276/
Door handle in New Orleans:
http://flickr.com/photos/monceau/134884399/
another San Antonio location:
http://flickr.com/photos/bacarlson/137988518/
Sign on the closed store in the Downtown Eastside area of Vancouver:
http://flickr.com/photos/mikey720/44245615/
Riverside:
http://flickr.com/photos/87362701@N00/225754412/
Springfield, MO:
http://flickr.com/photos/trint/10016451/
Not sure where this one is:
http://flickr.com/photos/26823699@N00/124024313/
Sterling, IL:
http://flickr.com/photos/schquimpy/244267358/
Interior, Santa Fe:
http://flickr.com/photos/944play/146910310/
Wildwood, NJ:
http://flickr.com/photos/slice/186876062/
Demolition, Lexington, KY:
http://flickr.com/photos/killermonkeys/27761313/
Charleston, SC:
http://flickr.com/photos/gilesbooth/101745844/
Interior, Santa Cruz, CA:
http://flickr.com/photos/cruzan/6377474/
Augusta, GA, looks to be different store from the other one I linked to:
http://flickr.com/photos/cityofdust/54406028/
Door handle, Mobile, AL:
http://flickr.com/photos/doncolin/23773128/
Schenectady, NY (next to another five-and-dime):
http://flickr.com/photos/carljohnson/128349380/
Twin Cities area?
http://flickr.com/photos/mrankinen/28342003/
Door handle, Alaska:
http://flickr.com/photos/michaelrry/277658738/
Charlottesville, VA:
http://flickr.com/photos/waldoj/147129571/
Ex-department store, Northwood, OH:
http://flickr.com/photos/o_caritas/221031757/
Cleveland, now the House of Blues:
http://flickr.com/photos/73416633@N00/248250090/
---
from the still-existing British and German divisions:
Hamburg, Germany
http://flickr.com/photos/txmx2/136787760/
Nuremburg, Germany:
http://flickr.com/photos/allysther/75705165/
Heidelberg, Germany:
http://flickr.com/photos/scurzuzu/141024469/
Hildesheim:
http://flickr.com/photos/frabble/157236956/
London:
http://flickr.com/photos/danielpare/104368418/
Berlin:
http://flickr.com/photos/danielpare/104368418/
Another Berlin location?
http://flickr.com/photos/squirm/27722970/
A Scottish interior:
http://flickr.com/photos/stephpeters/85163238/
Ladenburg:
http://flickr.com/photos/tamngo/49990037/
Konstanz:
http://flickr.com/photos/amandaingermany/255075667/
Glasgow:
http://flickr.com/photos/duncan/121779327/
Brighton:
http://flickr.com/photos/llinor/209238752/
Bristol:
http://flickr.com/photos/fray_bentos/162914392/
Dusseldorf:
http://flickr.com/photos/squirm/33861699/
---
from the Mexican division, still existing:
Mexico City:
http://flickr.com/photos/giffmex/104199707/
San Luis Potosi, Mexico:
http://flickr.com/photos/oxtopus/46651242/
Tijuana:
http://flickr.com/photos/juliosueco/102174572/
Puerto Vallarta:
http://flickr.com/photos/sharon-west/89291463/
http://flickr.com/photos/tspauld/87607923/
I took a few photos of my own of that location:
http://dtcwrt.earlracing.com/stores/other.htm
Here are some other locations I've seen on the web...
Country Club Centre, Sacramento (probably long remodeled and reused):
http://flickr.com/photos/87362701@N00/225754410/
Market/Powell, San Francisco, now The Gap:
http://flickr.com/photos/olivander/199591876/
Mission/Harrington, San Francisco, still vacant but sporting original signage:
http://www.mistersf.com/farewell/fwwoolworth.htm
http://flickr.com/photos/ericinsf/55468445/
Some locations mentioned here...
http://tinyurl.com/yhfwkr
707 Clement Street, San Francisco, now a Chinese supermarket:
http://tinyurl.com/yfnksp
(711 Clement is mentioned on the Groceteria spreadsheet and may be same building)
200 West Portal, San Francisco, looks to be Rite-Aid now (I have walked by this store several times):
http://tinyurl.com/y9vw52
The Groceteria spreadsheet mentions a few more for SF...
http://www.groceteria.com/sanfrancisco/ ... sheet.html
2159 Chestnut
http://tinyurl.com/ykj3ne
1650 Polk
http://tinyurl.com/yf9ye8
---
Here's a shot from Chain Store Age's July 1966 issue, page E28, of a store in Sheridan, WY:
http://dtcwrt.earlracing.com/stores/csa ... eridan.jpg
---
And now, some Flickr photos of other locations...
Preserved store in Bakersfield:
http://flickr.com/photos/string_bass_dave/165741924/
http://flickr.com/photos/string_bass_dave/165741778/
http://flickr.com/photos/naotoj/29418256/
Ferndale, 1928 and now:
http://flickr.com/photos/kbreenbo/90500952/
Reno:
http://flickr.com/photos/nancyo23/168553261/
http://flickr.com/photos/scottschrantz/39126264/
Greensboro (the one where the sit-in occurred)
http://flickr.com/photos/spcoon/119601475/
http://flickr.com/photos/amberlrhea/271430974/
http://flickr.com/photos/spcoon/119601249/
http://flickr.com/photos/spcoon/170110612/
http://flickr.com/photos/dragonflysky/121652675/
Somewhere in Oregon:
http://flickr.com/photos/francesrust/208344616/
Vacant location in Augusta, GA:
http://flickr.com/photos/amberlrhea/222135000/
http://flickr.com/photos/amberlrhea/222134976/
http://flickr.com/photos/idyllopuspress/198846552/ - 1970s depiction
Asheville, NC:
http://flickr.com/photos/51283283@N00/288613383/
http://flickr.com/photos/milknosugar/291830288/
http://flickr.com/photos/jsigharas/179531781/
http://flickr.com/photos/khalloran/25597680/
http://flickr.com/photos/_edna_million/280018763/
http://flickr.com/photos/_edna_million/280018759/
St. Louis:
http://flickr.com/photos/nickfindley/53980199/
http://flickr.com/photos/nickfindley/53978952/
http://flickr.com/photos/michael-leland/275727117/
Cambridge, MA:
http://flickr.com/photos/jbartok/21390632/
http://flickr.com/photos/dboo/248377852/
Artist's depiction of a Woolworth (NOT Woolco) department store in Hibbing, MN, from Roadsidepictures:
http://flickr.com/photos/54177448@N00/191265522/
Montreal:
http://flickr.com/photos/mikeygottawa/274367229/
Ann Arbor, MI:
http://flickr.com/photos/edward-vielmetti/76481837/
San Antonio:
http://flickr.com/photos/tadsonbussey/93462966/
Wilmington, DE:
http://flickr.com/photos/eilatan/18441453/
Brooklyn (Bedford-Stuyvesant) vintage shot:
http://flickr.com/photos/rachaelnoel/176359903/
Washington, DC (Georgetown):
http://flickr.com/photos/joearchitect/40557233/
Savannah, GA:
http://flickr.com/photos/courtneys/189460816/
St. Paul:
http://flickr.com/photos/uberculture/45146583/
San Diego:
http://flickr.com/photos/osbornb/11244276/
Downtown Los Angeles, now Foot Locker (which of course is what Woolworth's corporate evolved into):
http://flickr.com/photos/jimwinstead/32105996/
Vintage interior drawing:
http://flickr.com/photos/zilf/220223186/
Harrisburg, PA:
http://flickr.com/photos/sethgaines/52252493/
Los Angeles?
http://flickr.com/photos/red_devil/45875527/
Fort Worth:
http://flickr.com/photos/atomicglee/179283276/
Door handle in New Orleans:
http://flickr.com/photos/monceau/134884399/
another San Antonio location:
http://flickr.com/photos/bacarlson/137988518/
Sign on the closed store in the Downtown Eastside area of Vancouver:
http://flickr.com/photos/mikey720/44245615/
Riverside:
http://flickr.com/photos/87362701@N00/225754412/
Springfield, MO:
http://flickr.com/photos/trint/10016451/
Not sure where this one is:
http://flickr.com/photos/26823699@N00/124024313/
Sterling, IL:
http://flickr.com/photos/schquimpy/244267358/
Interior, Santa Fe:
http://flickr.com/photos/944play/146910310/
Wildwood, NJ:
http://flickr.com/photos/slice/186876062/
Demolition, Lexington, KY:
http://flickr.com/photos/killermonkeys/27761313/
Charleston, SC:
http://flickr.com/photos/gilesbooth/101745844/
Interior, Santa Cruz, CA:
http://flickr.com/photos/cruzan/6377474/
Augusta, GA, looks to be different store from the other one I linked to:
http://flickr.com/photos/cityofdust/54406028/
Door handle, Mobile, AL:
http://flickr.com/photos/doncolin/23773128/
Schenectady, NY (next to another five-and-dime):
http://flickr.com/photos/carljohnson/128349380/
Twin Cities area?
http://flickr.com/photos/mrankinen/28342003/
Door handle, Alaska:
http://flickr.com/photos/michaelrry/277658738/
Charlottesville, VA:
http://flickr.com/photos/waldoj/147129571/
Ex-department store, Northwood, OH:
http://flickr.com/photos/o_caritas/221031757/
Cleveland, now the House of Blues:
http://flickr.com/photos/73416633@N00/248250090/
---
from the still-existing British and German divisions:
Hamburg, Germany
http://flickr.com/photos/txmx2/136787760/
Nuremburg, Germany:
http://flickr.com/photos/allysther/75705165/
Heidelberg, Germany:
http://flickr.com/photos/scurzuzu/141024469/
Hildesheim:
http://flickr.com/photos/frabble/157236956/
London:
http://flickr.com/photos/danielpare/104368418/
Berlin:
http://flickr.com/photos/danielpare/104368418/
Another Berlin location?
http://flickr.com/photos/squirm/27722970/
A Scottish interior:
http://flickr.com/photos/stephpeters/85163238/
Ladenburg:
http://flickr.com/photos/tamngo/49990037/
Konstanz:
http://flickr.com/photos/amandaingermany/255075667/
Glasgow:
http://flickr.com/photos/duncan/121779327/
Brighton:
http://flickr.com/photos/llinor/209238752/
Bristol:
http://flickr.com/photos/fray_bentos/162914392/
Dusseldorf:
http://flickr.com/photos/squirm/33861699/
---
from the Mexican division, still existing:
Mexico City:
http://flickr.com/photos/giffmex/104199707/
San Luis Potosi, Mexico:
http://flickr.com/photos/oxtopus/46651242/
Tijuana:
http://flickr.com/photos/juliosueco/102174572/
Puerto Vallarta:
http://flickr.com/photos/sharon-west/89291463/
Last edited by TheStranger on 11 Nov 2006 05:59, edited 2 times in total.
Chris Sampang
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Hayward, CA (22510 Foothill Blvd) now Cyclepath bicycle store;
http://www.alamedainfo.com/Hayward_PC_15b.jpg
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Country Club
The Woolworth's at Country Club Centre in Sacramento must predate the one across the street at Country Club Plaza. When I lived there in the mid-70s, there was no longer a Wooworth's at CCC, only at CCP. The one in CCP (two levels, with escalator) is now a Ross.
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Here's a sad story: the case of the closed Woolworth location in San Francisco, at Mission and Harrington Streets.
Rite Aid was supposed to move into the vacant store in 1998, even going so far as to signing a 25 year lease - only that the building continues to lie vacant (with its Woolworth's signs up), unlike the Woolworth's in West Portal that did reopen as Rite Aid.
http://www.bhnc.org/www/s_net/S-NET_TIMES_March-05.htm
12/28: Just drove by the location today and it has reopened as a furniture store.
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12/7: A Woolworth's in Medford, OR.
http://flickr.com/photos/simplysha/313159376/
Rite Aid was supposed to move into the vacant store in 1998, even going so far as to signing a 25 year lease - only that the building continues to lie vacant (with its Woolworth's signs up), unlike the Woolworth's in West Portal that did reopen as Rite Aid.
http://www.bhnc.org/www/s_net/S-NET_TIMES_March-05.htm
12/28: Just drove by the location today and it has reopened as a furniture store.
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12/7: A Woolworth's in Medford, OR.
http://flickr.com/photos/simplysha/313159376/
Chris Sampang
Woolworth's on Market St
I saw the posted picture of the Woolworth's at Market & Powell. Wasn't there another location on market that closed in the late 90's? It was across from Nordstrom's. You could enter it either from the street or from BART because the entrance was a little below street level.
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Re: Woolworth's on Market St
The Powell and Market location was the one across from Nordstrom. It opened in the late 1940s or early 1950s, I believe. It closed in about 1991, and was replaced by a Gap store and a relocated, smaller Woolworth at basement level. The new Woolworth lasted until the 1997 company shutdown (or just before), I believe.
wrallen99 wrote:I saw the posted picture of the Woolworth's at Market & Powell. Wasn't there another location on market that closed in the late 90's? It was across from Nordstrom's. You could enter it either from the street or from BART because the entrance was a little below street level.
Ditto!runchadrun wrote:The labelscar on the store in Downtown LA on Broadway is clearly visible under the much-smaller Foot Locker sign. I was down there earlier this year for an anti-war march and pointed it out to a friend. He was very much unimpressed and thought I was strange for finding it interesting.
I was with a coworker as I noticed Woolworth's spelled out in stone (mentioned above).
The coworker could care less!
I also remember when Ralphs changed their logo from script to bold printed letters in the mid-80s. I noted this to a friend. Her reply, "Who cares!?"
thanks again to this site...for those of us that do!