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From Woolworth to Tower Records, here are 10 iconic retail stores that vanished—but live on in nostalgic memories.
The former Woolworth's in Greensboro, N.C., (pictured) is on the National Register of Historic Places for being the site in 1960 of some of the first civil rights lunch-counter sit-in protests. East ...
When its first lunch counter opened in New Albany, Indiana, around 1923, the F.W. Woolworth Company was already known for innovation. Founded by Frank Winfield Woolworth in New York in 1879 ...
BlackPressUSA NEWSWIRE – In an update to the BlackPressUSA exclusive on the lunch counter exhibit at the National Museum of African-American History and Culture, the Smithsonian now says the ...
Despite earlier reports of its removal, the historic Woolworth’s lunch counter exhibit remains proudly on display at the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), also ...
On Thursday, the news outlet BlackPressUSA published a report that an exhibit from a historic moment in the Civil Rights Movement, Greensboro’s F.W. Woolworth Company lunch counter, fell victim ...
A picture from 1990 shows the “Try Woolworth’s Luncheonette” sign that once hung on the outside of the building at 205 E. Douglas. But one Wichita lunch counter outlasted them all ...
In the famous photograph, four Black college freshmen occupy the segregated Woolworth lunch counter in downtown ... Decades later, Bess would pose for pictures and sign autographs at the ...