The term “five and dime” describes 1950s-era stores that sold cheap, low-quality household items at discounted prices. “Five and Dime” stores were popular for a time, but their reputation ...

Frank Woolworth opened his first five-and-dime store in Utica ... In 1985, the company was bought out by Ames Department Stores. With more than 75,000 items spread over two levels, you never ...

Perry’s Ben Franklin Store was moved to its current location at 1221 Second St. in 1973. Jan and Jay Pattee later took over as owners and changed the name to Ben’s Five and Dime. “ ...

The name Northville, New York, says much about its character. Sitting at the tip of the northwest spear of Great Sacandaga Lake inside Adirondack Park, Northville forms a tiny nodule in a sea of ...

When Woolworth’s centennial rolled around in 1979, the Guinness Book of World Records proclaimed it largest department store ... of the discontinued five-and-dime stores into more profitable ...

It was then leased to the S. H. Kress Company. At the time, Kress was a national chain of 150 five-and-dime stores located mainly in the South. Coleman was the owner of a wholesale produce company ...

Although Pittsfield had five-and-dime stores as early as the 1890s ... The Newberry store in Pittsfield took over the space of the Wallace Department store at 75-81 North St. in the Central Block ...

our Five & Dime name is a tribute to the Frank Woolworth “Five and Dime” retail stores of the late 19th and early 20th century. We are located in the historic Woolworth Building lobby ...

The J.J. Newberry Co. store was built in 1951. In those days, the Monroe County-based chain operated more than 500 five-and-dime stores spanning from Maine to Wyoming. Somerset’s Newberry store ...