With terrific brand new songs, ‘5 & Dime’ plays at Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts through July 13.

It is at this time of year that Patricia Krenn misses the old five-and-dime stores most. “They were so very festive and joyous,” said the Allentown resident. She remembers the garland, … ...

Woolworth's, Grant's, and McCrory's may be gone, but the history of five-and-dime stores is still alive at locations across the country.

Howard Sine opened his five and dime in 1912 and moved the business to its current location in 1926. Today, the fifth generation of Sine's family is operating the store, which remains a fixture on ...

The Northville Five and Dime store is one of the oldest in the country. It's been owned by Ashley VanAllen's family for three generations.

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 ...

A store closing banner and sign are pictured outside Ben's Five and Dime in Perry. The variety store will close its doors on Saturday, June 29, 2024. ...

Five-and-dime stores are a hallmark of America's early retail landscape. The brainchild of Frank Woolworth, the discount store cut its first opening-day ribbon in 1879 in Utica, New York.

In the 30s and 40s, nearly all American towns had a five-and-dime. ... The “5-10 and 25 Cent Store” had operated for almost 76 years, ...

A new five-and-dime store opened on a rainy July 2, 1902, at a double storefront at 217-219 First Ave. East in Cedar Rapids. The Woolworth’s opening got billing in The Gazette that day. “An ...

The store saw great numbers during the start of the COVID pandemic, Tunink said, as Ben’s Five and Dime was deemed an essential business and customers were looking for fabric to make masks ...