Woolworths, once an American icon, disappears from U.K.

My 1st date was at a Woolworth's. Banana Split for 2

with all the businesses going out ,its starting to look like a parade.Maybe america will become an agrarian society again.The way its going we will have to grow our own food,maybe we can even sell some to the rich,save up and buy a nice a toyota

the economy is gettin all of us, but I feel more sorry for those of us who are already poor than the ones who got to live big for so long.

I still have my parents' old Nativity set, bought at Woolworth's in Pittsburg, KS, about 1962. I also have fond memories of another long defunct chain... Kress.

Love those sandwiches with potatoe chips...BLT and ham ones!!!!

i loved woolworth's stores and also s.h. kress when it was in business back in my days of growing up(a long time ago).these were the main stores for evryday shopping. i sure do miss them.

What great memories this brings back! Susan & Anne in 1959, Janette & Peggy in1969, Janie and me all the time! We were safe on the bus and walking around downtown Norfolk. What memories will our kids have? Christmas shopping for everyone at Woolworths for a whole $10.00!
Maybe we all need to look back for a better future!

Worked for Woolworth's for 25 years. Had an office in the Woolworth building, it was spectacular and a great place to work place.

good memories.I used to work in Woolworth for 15 yrs. in PR and US. I bought a xmas tree 20yrs ago and we still using it every yr. ah ! the best cafeteria ever, good food !!! and good people !!

Sears is next

Remember when I was in high school and one of my friends worked their part time and later went on full time. I know he must be sad. But if management goes down the tubes this is what happens and this is what GM and Chrylser should do also. We don't need unions these days, if they get what they paid for from the Democrats, this card check you will see alot of business close the doors before they are blackmailed by the union thugs.

Having moved here recently from the UK I can tell you Woolworths wasn't that bad of a store, similar to our local Marshalls here - in other words, untidy, hard to find items at times, and not enough staff. The downfall of the company can be blamed on their management for not moving with the times, ASDA (Walmart in the UK) and other large companies have progressed and gotten bigger and better, Woolworths stagnated and seemed dated. It's a shame for all the staff who will be losing their jobs, I was hoping someone would rescue them, but honestly, they're really not a good bet at all in this market!

As a child Woolworth's was a store where my mother would take us boys when mother had x-tra $ to buy NEW clothes....'it's been 45 years...but having just read the article....'it brings back fond memories for me.

One of my earliest memories, at age 5 or 6, during the Great Depression, was my mom taking me to a Woolworth's soda fountain in Los Angeles where I developed my craving for chocolate milk shakes, which lasts until this day. It's a great shame that one of the examples of how to survive that economic depression can't survive this one. Incidentally, in my day Woolworth's was known more as a five and dime rather than a department store. Department stores were for the wealthy.

Early 60's growing up in small town Mich, the Woolworth in the middle of the small downtown was THE place to go.

Transplanted down to Houston and downtown Woolworth's was big. You could buy a gun at Woolworths !

I have a couple of the gold wooden letters from the 5th ave store which closed sometime around 1970. Must be worth something.

I remember when I was a kid being so excited every mid August to go school supply shopping with my mom downtown Brooklyn at the old Woolworth there (yes, when I was in elementary school I actually LOVED school). They always had the best deals on school supplies. First Alexanders, then Woolworths. I miss my childhood!!!

In Michigan, we lost our store years ago. But I can remember back in the fifties when I was under 10, my girlfriend & I put on a bunch of make-up at the beauty counter. We went to look in the mirror & we looked like a couple clowns. We always purchased live green turtles, sometimes the brown ones, for "show & tell" at school. I remember some kid got bit. Those were the good memories. The only bad memory was black (negro people) back then couldn"t sit at the lunch counter. Even as a kid I knew this was wrong. I'm glad that changed. How sad the memories those people must still have. Woolworth would'nt survive those policies today.

I remember F. W. Woolworth's in Elmhurst, Illinois, when I was just a kid. A few doors down, I believe was S. S. Kresgee's, their competition. Great stores!

Proud to say that I'm under 30 and know what Woolworth's is! We used to have one at one of the mall's here in Vegas and I'd go shopping there with my parents all the time! I always remember buying candy there...