Woolworth Company closes after 117 years in business.

* Seymour H. Knox II and his sister Dorothy Knox Goodyear Rogers heirs to the founder of F. W. Woolworth Company

Frank Winfield Woolworth ( April 13, 1852 – April 8, 1919 ) was the founder of F. W. Woolworth Company ( now Foot Locker ), an operator of discount stores that priced merchandise at five and ten cents.

In 1911, the F. W. Woolworth Company was incorporated with 586 stores.

The F. W. Woolworth Company ( often referred to as Woolworth's or Woolworth ) was a retail company that was one of the original pioneers, and arguably the most successful American and international five-and-dime stores, setting trends and creating the modern retail model which stores follow today, worldwide.

The similarly named Woolworths supermarkets in Australia and New Zealand are operated by Australia's largest retail company Woolworths Limited, a separate company with no historical links to the F. W. Woolworth Company or Foot Locker, Inc.

In 1912 the syndicate agreed to a scheme crafted by Frank Woolworth: to join forces and incorporate as one corporate entity under the name " F. W. Woolworth Company " in a merger of all 596 stores.

Second successful " Woolworth Bros " store, Scranton, PA. Later bought by brother Charles " Sum ", becoming the first " C. S. Woolworth " store, and eventually merged into the F. W. Woolworth Company.

Woolworth Company ’ s successor, the Venator Group ( now Foot Locker ), in 1998.

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* F. W. Woolworth Company, the original US-based chain of " five and dime " ( 5 ¢ and 10 ¢) stores

* Frank W. Woolworth, founder of F. W. Woolworth Company / Five and Dime stores

On completion, the Woolworth building overtook the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower as the world's-tallest building ; it opened on April 24, 1913.

At the building's completion, the Woolworth Company occupied only one and a half floors of the building, but, as the owner, profited from renting space out to others, including the Irving Trust bank and Columbia Records.

Woolworth Company | Woolworth's is now preserved in the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History

Image: Three Sisters Fixed. jpg | 13042 S. Western Ave., The Woolworth Building, for Teresa Klein, 1915, Blue Island, IL

The first Woolworth store was opened by Frank Winfield Woolworth on February 22, 1878, as " Woolworth's Great Five Cent Store " in Utica, New York.

After working in Augsbury and Moore dry goods store in Watertown, New York, Frank Winfield Woolworth obtain credit from his former boss, William Moore, along with some savings, to buy merchandise and open the " Woolworth's Great Five Cent Store " in Utica, New York, on February 22, 1878.

Woolworth, Woolworth's, or Woolworths may refer to:

Woolworth Company or just, Woolworth's.

General opinion among the knowledgeable record collectors of this era is that Madison, being sold at Woolworth's, survived for awhile after Grey Gull and their other labels due to fulfilling the Woolworth contract.

Foster found a ready market on the beaches of Atlantic City, New Jersey, where he began selling sunglasses under the name Foster Grant from a Woolworth on the Boardwalk.

Thanks to the late 19th century spread of the private estates of Vanderbilts, Roosevelts, Whitneys, Charles Pratt, J. P. Morgan, F. W. Woolworth, and others in areas where rocky terrain is more productive of pretty views than crops, the North Shore has a long-held reputation of elegance.

Zeller began his career with the F. W. Woolworth Company, where he started as a delivery boy in 1912.

Later on in his career he moved to New York City where he became a registrar at the Woolworth Building.

He arrived by boat in New York City where he stayed only for a short time but took the chance to go up to the top of the Woolworth Building, the highest skyscraper in the world at the time.

* July 25 – The Woolworth Company's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, the location of a sit-in that had sparked demonstrations by Negroes across the Southern United States, serves a meal to its first black customer.

A Woolworth ’ s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina became the setting for a significant event during the civil rights movement ( see below ).

The International Civil Rights Center & Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina, contains four chairs from the Woolworth counter along with photos of the original four protesters, a timeline of the events, and headlines from the media.

In February 1960, in Greensboro, North Carolina, four young African-American college students entered a Woolworth store and sat down at the counter but were refused service.

In 1925, Grey Gull began pressing the Madison label ( presumably for F. W. Woolworth stores ) The initial issues used a 16xx series for popular recordings ( both instrumental and vocal ) and a 19xx series for " standard " issues.

It began producing products for private labels such as Sears, Craftsman, Woolworth and many others.

He began his financial-services career as a bond salesman in New York City with a single building, the Woolworth Building, as his first territory.

* 1913 – The Woolworth Building skyscraper in New York City is opened.

In the primary logo, designed by sports cartoonist Ray Gatto, each part of the skyline has special meaning — at the left is a church spire, symbolic of Brooklyn, the borough of churches ; the second building from the left is the Williamsburg Savings Bank, the tallest building in Brooklyn ; next is the Woolworth Building ; after a general skyline view of midtown comes the Empire State Building ; at the far right is the United Nations Building.

He was cremated and is interred in a niche in the Azalea Room of the Velma B. Woolworth Memorial Chapel at Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York.

Gilbert wrote to a colleague, " I sometimes wish I had never built the Woolworth Building because I fear it may be regarded as my only work and you and I both know that whatever it may be in dimension and in certain lines it is after all only skyscraper.

The book is a gold mine of mid – twentieth century Wilmette history, including a reference to a Woolworth ’ s store once located in the Eden ’ s Plaza shopping center — as well as a prominent Encyclopædia Britannica sign once displayed on Wilmette Avenue.

Woolworth name since they did not do business in Australia and had not registered the trademark there but is in no other way connected to the U. S. or U. K. Woolworths.

* Woolworth Mexicana operates a chain of small variety stores in Mexico, sold in December 1997 to Control Dinamico S. A. by Foot Locker Inc now is a subsidiary of Grupo Comercial Control, S. A. de C. V.

The Woolworth Building, designed by architect Cass Gilbert in 1913, is one of the oldest skyscrapers in the United States.

Until recently, that company kept a presence in the building through a Foot Locker store ( Foot Locker is the successor to the Woolworth Company ).

The originator of the concept is Woolworth Bros, in July 1879.

Lower Manhattan is home to some of New York City's most spectacular skyscrapers, including the Woolworth Building, 40 Wall Street ( also known as the Trump Building ), the Standard Oil Building at 26 Broadway, and the American International Building.

Notable buildings in the district include the Flatiron Building, one of the oldest of the original New York skyscrapers, and just to east at 1 Madison Avenue is the Met Life Tower, built in 1909 and the tallest building in the world until 1913, when the Woolworth Building was completed.

Another example of his corporate work is an industrial musical revue for Woolworth performed in June 1965 called Mr. Woolworth Had a Notion.

Woolworth operated a main store and a garden store in the mall ; the former is now mall space, while the latter was converted to Odd-Job Trading before becoming Old Navy.

On the south end of Madison Square, southwest of the park, is the Flatiron Building, one of the oldest of the original New York skyscrapers, and just to east at 1 Madison Avenue is the Met Life Tower, built in 1909 and the tallest building in the world until 1913, when the Woolworth Building was completed.

The ground floor is leased to several commercial tenants, including the top floor of a, four-story K-Mart store ( formerly occupied by Woolworth ), and a restaurant.

There is a food court on the second floor, which was originally the second floor of a Woolworth store, as well as many retail stores featuring Spencer Gifts, Five Below, and a Dell Direct Store kiosk.