I can remember well sitting next to my grandfather at the Woolworth’s lunch counter as a young girl in South Georgia, me with a Coca-Cola or a milkshake and some kind of “five and dime” treasure I had ...

Twenty five years ago it was the end of an era as F.W. Woolworth’s, the original five-and-dime store launched more than a century before, called it quits. The once mighty retail pioneer announced on ...