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Post by David Sechrest on Jun 2, 2006 11:59:01 GMT -5
This is not about Edwards, but another store that no one has mentioned. F. W. Woolworth!! This smaller 5 and 10 cent store was on Washington Street, just South of The Greeks. I began working there when I was only 15 (my cousin was the manager when I was hired and she fibbed about my age because you needed to be 16 to work). I worked at Woolworth's until my senior year in high school and at that time got a job at Irwin Union Bank and Trust.
Actually I preferred Woolworth's to Murphy's, it was smaller, the clerks were friendlier and I just liked it better. I began at the makeup counter and I worked with a very nice lady, oh her name won't come to me right now. From there I eventually was moved around to all the counters to learn where things went, prices, etc. One Summer the "candy counter" girl quit and I was given that job for the whole Summer. Let me tell you there was never a cleaner or a fresher display of candy anywhere. I'd scour and clean and then when the stockboy couldn't get me the new candy from the stockroom in a timely manner, off I'd go to the upstairs attic and carry down two twenty lb boxes of candy. I couldn't stand to have an empty space in my candy counter.
Maybe no one else remembers Woolworth's but I sure do, as it was my first "real job" and I was paid 50 cents an hour. [/size]
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Post by David Sechrest on Jun 2, 2006 12:15:43 GMT -5
Something told me there used to be a Woolworth's downtown!
By the mid 1960's, I think Woolworth's was gone. Is it possible that Edwards replaced it?
The address was 325 Washington, which would have put it next door to Zaharako's.
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Post by richard on Jun 2, 2006 12:28:00 GMT -5
Something told me there used to be a Woolworth's downtown! By the mid 1960's, I think Woolworth's was gone. Is it possible that Edwards replaced it? The address was 325 Washington, which would have put it next door to Zaharako's. Washington Street information from the 1953 Columbus City Directory 315 Mode Theater Sidney G. Showalter (Lawyer) Paul D. Lawson (Lawyer) 318 Sanitary Café Tavern 318 ½ Homer M. Rush Jr. 321 Kitzinger Café 321 ½ Omer B. Cook (massage) 322-26 Goodman & Jester Department Store 323 Kitzinger Bakery Company Inc. 325 The Fair Store (variety store) 327 F. W. Woolworth Co.328 The Glassner Store (department store) 329 James K. Zaharako & Sons Confectionery329 ½ Frank P. Brockman (real estate) 331 Stilwell Drug Store 331 ½ First National Bank Building Richard
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Post by Babs on Jun 3, 2006 10:33:28 GMT -5
Many thanks David for starting a thread on F. W. Woolworth's. I thought if I posted in the other spot maybe it would generate some interest.
My mind finally became more active and I recalled the name of the pretty lady that ran the jewlery and makeup counter. It was Freida. There were two sisters who also worked in Woolworth's. One worked toward the back of the store and the other one, Elsie I think her name was, worked upstairs in the office.
I see from Richard's posting there would've been just one business between us and the Greeks. Thanks Richard, sure was nice to see all those old addresses.
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Post by jabaker on Jun 15, 2010 10:14:05 GMT -5
Ohhhhh I wish I could bring up an image of that place in my brain! I almost can but it's just out of grasp! I must have been very young when Woolworth's was downtown. And Edwards rings a bell too. My Mom referred to Woolworth's and Murphy's as the little dime store and the big dime store.
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Post by jabaker on Jun 15, 2010 10:22:20 GMT -5
And looking over the list of stores by address also reminds me of Jester's! We used to occasionally buy shoes from a store other than Tovey's. I seem to visualize the children's shoe department at Jester's had a raised platform with chairs on it so the children sat higher than the clerk? and now that I'm thinking of shoe stores I'm gonna expand a bit and mention Schiff's and Collier's. I can recall one of these stores having an old wooden rocking horse and the other store (or maybe the same) had an upstairs balcony in the back that overlooked the ground floor. I remember Collier's had an Art Deco facade with big steel circles across the top. Or I may be hallucinating.
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