Certain vintage, low-cost five-and-dime items could be quite valuable to collectors today. Here is a list of 10 items worth over $100 currently.
About this product Product Information This sparkling story of intrepid young women is not just a strike narrative of the Great Depression, but echoes down to our own times. Dana Frank is always on the side of those who are willing to fight! --Nelson Lichtenstein, Director, Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy at the University of California, Santa Barbara Frank does an excellent job of creating articulate arguments out of a complex blend of history, economics, and current events. --Library Journal Woolworth's was the Walmart of the 1930s. The women were exploited and sexually harassed. This is the exciting story of how they fought back against corporate exploitation and oppression. Product Identifiers Publisher Haymarket Books ISBN-13 9781608462452 eBay Product ID (ePID) 115693821 Product Key Features Author Dana Frank Publication Name Women Strikers Occupy Chain Stores, Win Big: the 1937 Woolworth's Sit-Down Format Paperback Language English Subject History Publication Year 2012 Type Textbook Number of Pages 60 Pages Dimensions Item Height 216 mm Item Width 137 mm Item Weight 84 g Additional Product Features Country/Region of Manufacture United States Title_Author Dana Frank Show More Show Less
On Feb. 22, 1879, F.W. Woolworth opened the first chain store in America in Utica, NY. The chain closed the last Woolworth store in 1997. The last Woolworth in Tucson
10-12 Baxtergate, Doncaster, Yorkshire Woolworths opened in Doncaster in 1925, originally on Baxtergate. As you can see in this 1920s photo, it was a large purpose-built store. The posters in the w…
18/28 Hare Street, Woolwich, London SE18 6ND In 1911, the second London Woolworths store to open was in the South East – Woolwich. It opened on Hare Street, the area chosen for being very ind…
This former Woolworth's store was built in 1939. Today it houses an Antique Mall, as well as an original Woolworth's Luncheonette.
"Nevertheless, she persisted."
817 High Road, Leytonstone, London, E11 1HQ Woolworths opened in Leytonstone in 1933 on the High Road. It was an L-shaped store with another entrance on Church Street. Source: Facebook The store tr…
612-614a Lea Bridge Road, Leyton, London E10 7DL One of the early London stores, this one opened in 1923 in the Bakers Arms district on Lea Bridge Road, with a striking Art Deco facade. It was an L…
Many retail and department stores have come and gone throughout American culture. These are stores we loved that no longer exist today. Starting off the list is ‘Woolworth.’ The store was one of the pioneers of the five-and-dime store. They created the model that all other stores followed. Another missed store is ‘Marshall Field’s,’ which
The NW corner of Douglas and View Streets in Victoria, BC, circa-1977. Beneath the clean, modern exterior of the Woolworth Department Store was the corner-turreted, 3-storey, Victorian building that was once the gracious Vernon Hotel. The hotel building was purchased by the Woolworth 5-and-dime store chain in the 1920s. The property now houses a 2-storey McDonald's restaurant and Chapter's bookstore.
Letchworth has had a number of chain stores from its early days
62-64 Bridge Street, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire PE1 1DX Woolworths opened on Bridge Street in Peterborough in December 1915, and amazingly there are two photos of the store from this time, the fi…
An antique store houses the last operational diner from the defunct department store chain.
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43 The Broadway, Mill Hill, London NW7 3DE Woolworths opened in Mill Hill on the 23rd March 1934. Although the building looks like it may have been a cinema, it was probably a purpose-built store a…
The historic mansion in Scranton, first built in 1910, is the former home of Charles Sumner 'Sum' Woolworth, who created the now-defunct chain of stores with his brother.
Beautiful vintage platter by Homer Laughlin in the Maytime pattern has a yellow rim white center with a yellow and white and tan flowers. This pattern was produced by Homer Laughlin for the former chain of Woolworths stores throughout the 1950s. Discontinued pattern 1956 through 1966. Approximately 13 1/2“ x 10 and three-quarter inches , it is in good condition, but has a little fading in the gold ring. This is vintage item and could show signs of wear from use.
