Does Anyone Remember Woolworths and Blts ?

By Patsie Hatley

@Hatley (163781)

Garden Grove, California

May 21, 2016 9:26pm CST

One of my fondest memories is being a little kid wilth my parents in Woolworths store and eating bacon, tomato and lettuce sandwichs . I was always ready for one of those.Also Imust have been about 12 when I learned o love shrimp cocktails at Woolworths store too. I Think I saw the last woolworths store shortly after we were marred and i had an appt with a dentst for an infected gum. We wentinto this oldwoolworths sotre andhad juge hamburgers and fries and it was so good.. My dentists office was right close to the store too.thatwould have b een back in 1958 wow long time back. those first yearsa of our marriabe were so lovelyy but all my marriae was good some downs, health probs and losing a child.

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@marlina (154166)

• Canada

22 May 16

I do remember an old Woolworths in downtown Toronto.

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@Hatley (163781)

• Garden Grove, California

22 May 16

One pf the things I remember is buyng candy in w oolworths for a nickel

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@Vjvals (906)

• Roseville, California

22 May 16

They had a Woolworths here at the local mall until just a few years ago, it was my favorite store there

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@Hatley (163781)

• Garden Grove, California

22 May 16

i have always wondered how long some of them lasted

@marguicha (215481)

• Chile

22 May 16

I went for a banana split on Saturdays and with the change from 50 cents I bought magazines and tropical fish

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@Hatley (163781)

• Garden Grove, California

22 May 16

oh those day s everything was so cheap and you would get small change and go to the candy store and buy a l ot of cand y for little money wow

@jstory07 (134477)

• Roseburg, Oregon

22 May 16

Woolworth went under because in the end their prices were to high and people were starting to go to other stores.

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@Hatley (163781)

• Garden Grove, California

22 May 16

I imagine when they raised their prices most left because that was their draw low prices.

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@dwstory (1276)

• Roseburg, Oregon

22 May 16

Woolsworths used to have nickle candy and I went their when I was a child and bought the nickle candy.

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@JohnRoberts (109857)

• Los Angeles, California

22 May 16

Yes, I remember Woolworth's from childhood. My mother once worked at a Woolworth's.

@Hatley (163781)

• Garden Grove, California

22 May 16

it seems l ike when I was a kid we did a lot of eating in W oolworths b ut surel y we did go to so me restaurans too lol

@Jessicalynnt (50525)

• Centralia, Missouri

23 May 16

per wiki it sounds like these stores were around in some places at least until the 1990s, but possibly under another name