The Past is Everywhere, You Just Need to Notice
Thrift shop door pull, Canonsburg PA
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Fredericksburg, Virginia has a neat 1950s Woolworth’s being used the same way. While my wife was looking at antiques, I was looking at where the lunch counter was!
Some of the smaller five and dime chains were regional, but McCrory ended up with most of them. From “Pleasant Family Shopping”: “By the 1980‚Äôs Rapid-American was a key caretaker of America‚Äôs 5-and-10 store heritage, owning McCrory, H.L. Green, J.J. Newberry, T G & Y, and McLellan‚Äôs. Their only competitors in that fading segment were Woolworth‚Äôs and Ben Franklin.”
Troy, NY, where I grew up, had an H. L. Green store, the least of the city’s 5 and 10s below Woolworth’s, Grant’s, and Kresge’s (oldest, and smelled bad.) Even as a child, I noticed “MMG” (for McCrory McLellan Green) on some of their signage.
George
March 23, 2011 at 3:37 pmThe name sounds familiar, but they never got this far north. Isn’t it ironic that so many of those old five and dime chain stores wound up as thrift stores?
George
October 17, 2018 at 12:23 pmThe name sounds familiar, but they never got this far north. Isn’t it ironic that so many of those old five and dime chain stores wound up as thrift stores?
Glenn Wells
March 25, 2011 at 5:53 amFredericksburg, Virginia has a neat 1950s Woolworth’s being used the same way. While my wife was looking at antiques, I was looking at where the lunch counter was!
Some of the smaller five and dime chains were regional, but McCrory ended up with most of them. From “Pleasant Family Shopping”: “By the 1980‚Äôs Rapid-American was a key caretaker of America‚Äôs 5-and-10 store heritage, owning McCrory, H.L. Green, J.J. Newberry, T G & Y, and McLellan‚Äôs. Their only competitors in that fading segment were Woolworth‚Äôs and Ben Franklin.”
Troy, NY, where I grew up, had an H. L. Green store, the least of the city’s 5 and 10s below Woolworth’s, Grant’s, and Kresge’s (oldest, and smelled bad.) Even as a child, I noticed “MMG” (for McCrory McLellan Green) on some of their signage.
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March 27, 2011 at 9:23 pmWe only had Woolworth’s in the town where I was growing up but I remember Woolworth / Woolco and McCrory/McLellan’s from a commercial. I should’ve paid better attention!