The Shreveport Times

Twin Blends takes a look back at the old Woolco store that used to be at Shreve City.

In 1962, hundreds waited for the ribbon to be cut, then ran into the new Woolco store, founded by the F. W. Woolworth Co., opened in Shreve City. Woolco was billed as a full-line discount department ...
The New York Times

F.W. Woolworth Opens Its First Discount Store; WOOL WORTH ADDS A DISCOUNT STORE

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The New York Times

EX‐GRAYSON HEAD FORMS NEW UNIT; Apparel Buying Associates Set Up by Stanley Roth

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Sioux City Journal

Woolco Department Store

The new $1 million-plus Woolco Department Store officially opened Sept. 22, 1965, with dedication ceremonies at the Hamilton Boulevard location in the Sunset Plaza Shopping Center. The opening of the ...
Austin American-Statesman

Attention Kmart shoppers! When big discount stores arrived in Austin.

“I just stumbled across your Western Trails article done five years ago,” writes Kirby Dale about my short history of a midcentury community in Southwest Austin. “Just to clarify, Westgate Mall, ...