It will serve none of the purposes that Frank Winfield Woolworth had in mind in 1879. No penny candy, no socks, underwear, or laundry detergent. Nothing of the old Woolworth’s except the early ...

Frank Woolworth opened his first five-and-dime store in Utica, New York, in 1879. By the time he inaugurated his monumental headquarters in New York City in 1913 — at the time, the tallest ...