1879-1929, fifty years of Woolworth : over 2100 Woolworth stores celebrate this year in 1500 cities in 5 countries of the world : the fiftieth anniversary of the F.W. Woolworth Co. : with amazing buying opportunities for your nickels and dimes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-242) and index.
Contents
Nickel parakeets and grilled cheese: welcome to the world's most famous five-and-dime -- Early years of the merchant prince -- The birth of Woolworth's "great five-cent -store" -- Frank sires a million-dollar baby in Pennsylvania -- The march of "five-and-dimes" -- Reaching for the sky: the great Woolworth Building -- Woolworth's international -- Transition: from history to nostalgia -- Those fabulous lunch counters! -- A store for all seasons -- The spectacle of Woolworth's -- Woolworth's coast to coast -- The collectibles!
Pamphlet contains reproductions of previously published newspaper articles.
Contents
Introduction--Personnel entered in F.W.Woolworth books as first asset--Woolworth's sales line expands to more than 35,000 items in stock--Woolworth chain linked solidly to pioneer's retail policy--Good 1d. and 6d. pays off in Britian for Woolworth company--Woolworth's of Britian blazons vast range of new products.
"This book, first published in 1940, is the unmissable biography of Frank Winfield Woolworth (1852-1919), the American entrepreneur behind the F. W. Woolworth Company and the operator of variety stores known as "Five-and-Dimes". He was also the first to use self-service display cases, so customers could examine what they wanted to buy without the help of a sales clerk.Woolworth founded an international financial empire with a short lease on a tiny store, a couple of gross of tin cans and a simple but revolutionary idea. Woolworth grew up a poor farm boy who tended his father's cows barefoot, but he followed the great American dream by parlaying native ingenuity, business sense, and understanding of people into a huge fortune and establishing an institution that became a familiar part of America's way of life." [from Google Books, https://books.google.com/books?id=GtwuDwAAQBAJ]
Go to the following link to see an LNP newspaper article about Woolworth establishing his first successful store in Lancaster: https://goo.gl/f75cLZ
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v.99,no. 3
Summary
"Lancaster is a place where dreams become reality. A man with a vision, Frank Winfield Woolworth, could truthfully say that this thriving city...was the land of opportunity for him beginning in 1879. Life was not always easy for this young man. The first twenty-one years of Frank's life were living on farms with his younger borther, Charles Sumne, but the two intensely disliked farm work."
The F. W. Woolworth Collection contains materials related to the F. W. Woolworth Store, including anniversary booklets, dinner menu, event program, and annual reports.
Admin/Biographical History
The first successful F. W. Woolworth Store opened in Lancaster, PA in July 1879.
Stock in trade : being an "inventory of the store in Litiz (Pennsylvania), taken from the 4th to 8th May, 1773," and some pertinent remarks regarding service to the American public
