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...just a row of dirty book stores and porno booths, privacy ensured, and the old auditorium, Ryman's, which used to be the Grand Ole Opry in better days, looks like a church turned bingo hall. The Ernest Tubb Record Store is only a dingy Woolworth's--lines of cheap cowboy boots and tumbled boxes of western shirts, old George Wallace Speaks records, trick glasses that look like they're full of beer but when you pretend to spill it on someone the beer stays in because there's a false...
Stones A one-Column ad sending people to an obscure Boston Woolworth's last week got the Stone's visit in June sold out before you could decide whether it was still worth it. Not like New York, where the Stones are always humming in the air anyway, and where a Mao-like billboard spans Times Square hailing their arrival. And not like 1972, when the band's sweep across the country didn't leave you much choice. There's still a chance of getting to the June 11 and 12 concerts, though, as people were allowed to buy four...
...million-oz. gold stockpile, offered for sale to the public in minimum lots of 400 oz.-worth $70,000 at pre-sale prices. But when the 209 bids submitted last week were opened, it looked like the great gold sale had drawn a strictly Woolworth's crowd...
Treasure Chests. Secondhand shoppers are discovering that thrift shops are often treasure chests of remarkable goods. Coats with real mink collars are sometimes found among last year's ratty tweeds; Ming vases have been discovered on shelves next to neo-Woolworth butter dishes. Emily Cadra, manager of Everybody's, recalls the time a customer paid $4 for a small glass nut dish, then announced triumphantly that it was made by Steuben. Another customer returned to gloat that her 50? string of pearls had been resold for $50. Veterans of thrift shops generally agree that there is only...
...this year) between Thanksgiving and Christmas, but they may be unable to do so this year. While retail sales rose 7% in dollars over the past year, that was equivalent to a drop in real terms once the impact of inflation was discounted. Several big chains, among them F.W. Woolworth and W.T. Grant, have suffered steep declines in third-quarter profits; at the biggest of them all, Sears, Roebuck, earnings fell...