A few smalls

[lptools]

Hello, I picked these up yesterday. At top is a 0-1/2" HANDY Micrometer, stamped on barrel; Sold Only at Woolworth Stores Made in U.S.A.. Next is a Millers Falls 0-1" Micrometer.  At bottom a Craftsman Carbide Wheel Glass Cutter.. All of these are items I have never seen before, all Made in USA !!! Regards, Lou

[p_toad]

Too cool.   Wonder when Woolworths got out of the tools trade...   

[Papaw]

Ceased operations in July , 1997.
 Having risen like a meteor, it faded into a peaceful retirement in North America in the 1990s, before falling like a stone in the UK in 2008. The 800-strong chain went from normal trading to complete oblivion in 41 days. Weeks later F.W. Woolworth GmbH of Germany became insolvent, though its administrators secured its survival and renaissance as a shop chain, rather than the website that now serves the UK.

 

[Bill Houghton]

Ceased operations in July , 1997.
 Having risen like a meteor, it faded into a peaceful retirement in North America in the 1990s, before falling like a stone in the UK in 2008. The 800-strong chain went from normal trading to complete oblivion in 41 days. Weeks later F.W. Woolworth GmbH of Germany became insolvent, though its administrators secured its survival and renaissance as a shop chain, rather than the website that now serves the UK.

Too bad.  Time was, Woolworths was where you went to get your grandmother her birthday presents - a reliable source of handkerchiefs, linens, and the like (although I was lucky - the dime store in the shopping neighborhood closest to my parents' house had great embroidered handkerchiefs).

[Downwindtracker2]

I think they are still up in Australia as a grocery chain.