Path, the dime store Kresge's was in direct competition with Woolworth's. Kresge's then started K-Mart, and so, yeah, K-Mart was a direct descendent of the five-and-dime. I think that Wal-Mart ended up beating out Woolco and K-Mart (though it's still hanging on) because Wal-Mart just paid more attention to computerized inventory and supply flows (and other business-savvy things) and Target is still doing well because of their marketing savvy.
lilnemo, if you look on the second page on my "60's discount stores" link, you'll see TG&Y -- which despite what that page says, was still alive until recently (I saw one in Arizona in August 2002. I also saw a Gibson's in Colorado). It appears though that McCrory owned TG&Y by the time it went bankrupt and closed at the end of 2001. When I look closely in the windows of my very crooked car-shot TG&Y photo, I can see now that the store was empty by then. Also, here's a pic of a closed McCrory's in Newark from a defunct abandoned subway stations page. [via archive.org] So I guess TG&Y belongs with McCrory's under the Wikipedia entry for Department Stores -- Defunct US Chains Not Acquired by Extant Chains.
I grew up in Thief River Falls, Minnesota and remember the Woolworth's well. It closed in 1997, when I was 16, but I'll always remember the lunch counter, the odd hum of the
fluorescent lights, and the Woolworth's smell. The store is now a Ben Franklin and still very Woolworths-like.
And (blatant tangential self-link time) the wallpaperish screen print makes me think of the strange obsession they had with random kitchen things in the 60s and 70s, like giant forks and coffee grinders [self].
Path, the dime store Kresge's was in direct competition with Woolworth's. Kresge's then started K-Mart, and so, yeah, K-Mart was a direct descendent of the five-and-dime. I think that Wal-Mart ended up beating out Woolco and K-Mart (though it's still hanging on) because Wal-Mart just paid more attention to computerized inventory and supply flows (and other business-savvy things) and Target is still doing well because of their marketing savvy. lilnemo, if you look on the second page on my "60's discount stores" link, you'll see TG&Y -- which despite what that page says, was still alive until recently (I saw one in Arizona in August 2002. I also saw a Gibson's in Colorado). It appears though that McCrory owned TG&Y by the time it went bankrupt and closed at the end of 2001. When I look closely in the windows of my very crooked car-shot TG&Y photo, I can see now that the store was empty by then. Also, here's a pic of a closed McCrory's in Newark from a defunct abandoned subway stations page. [via archive.org] So I guess TG&Y belongs with McCrory's under the Wikipedia entry for Department Stores -- Defunct US Chains Not Acquired by Extant Chains.
posted by andyf 20 years ago
In "Soybellyflop?"
This isn't the first time someone has streaked for them.
posted by andyf 20 years ago
In "F.W. Woolworth"
I grew up in Thief River Falls, Minnesota and remember the Woolworth's well. It closed in 1997, when I was 16, but I'll always remember the lunch counter, the odd hum of the fluorescent lights, and the Woolworth's smell. The store is now a Ben Franklin and still very Woolworths-like.
posted by andyf 20 years ago
In "Artist Rica Takada"
And (blatant tangential self-link time) the wallpaperish screen print makes me think of the strange obsession they had with random kitchen things in the 60s and 70s, like giant forks and coffee grinders [self].
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