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Aug 12, 2015 · It was 1878 and Frank Winfield Woolworth was working in a general store. The 5-cent merchandise table was set up and staffed by Frank. As he assisted the customers that crowded around the table, Frank resolved to start a store of his own stocked only with 5-cent merchandise. 1. By June, 1879 Frank Winfield Woolworth was on his way to make history.
Feb 22, 2023 · It fails almost immediately. 1879-06-21 Frank Winfield Woolworth opens his 1st successful "Woolworth's Great Five Cent Store" on North Queen Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. 1913-04-24 The Woolworth Building opened in New York City by Frank Winfield Woolworth at a cost of $13.5 million, at 792 feet then the world's tallest building.
American businessman Frank Winfield Woolworth, who founded the F.W. Woolworth Co., was the originator of the five-and-ten variety store (i.e., a store that sells all items in stock for 10 cents or less). Woolworth was born on April 13, 1852, in Rodman, New York. After leaving school at age 16 and working for a period on his family’s farm ...
Aug 23, 2019 · You might say that F.W. (Frank Winfield) Woolworth is the founder of 'five and dimes'. He was born on a NY farm back in 1852. His first five cent store opened in Utica, New York.
Woolworth, Frank Winfield, 1852–1919, American merchant, b. Rodman, N.Y. He established in 1879 a five-cent store at Utica, N.Y., which failed, and the same year he started a successful five-and-ten-cent store at Lancaster, Pa. Woolworth opened many others and soon extended business throughout the United States and to several foreign countries.
New York, N.Y. 10021. Frank Winfield Woolworth was born in Rodman, N.Y., on April 13, 1852, and spent his childhood on the family's farm in Great Bend, N.Y. After attending a business college in Watertown, NY, he worked in the dry goods store of Moore & Smith in Watertown, at a salary of $10 a week. He married the former Jennie Creighton in ...
May 17, 2024 · Woolworth evolved into a multinational corporation with a large collection of specialty retail stores on four continents. Its headquarters were in New York City. The company was founded by Frank Winfield Woolworth (1852–1919), the originator of the five-and-ten variety store.
