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...Square] used to be a small little village with no chains at all except Woolworth's," Corcoran says. "We're becoming more and more like a shopping center...

Author: By Michael M. Luo, | Title: Defense Fund Fights to Preserve Square | 1/11/1995 | See Source »

...them down," she says. "It was really a struggle, but I always believed in God and I knew that whatever means it took for me to survive, beyond violence, I would survive. As long as you had a job, you could make it." Eventually, she got one at a Woolworth variety store, where she still works as a clerk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out of the Ashes | 4/12/1993 | See Source »

...inhabitants wander aimlessly and joblessly; its Ridgecrest Mall, once the paragon of consumer culture, is mostly in plyboards. Tyler's dream world of the Sharper Image turned into a Woolworth's going-out-of-Business sale overnight...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: Lots of Luster, Not Much Body | 8/7/1992 | See Source »

...chain stores like CVS, Bradlees, K Mart, Walgreen's, and Woolworth's have all ceased to sell the water gun in the area...

Author: By Jendi B. Reiter, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Super Soaker Squirt Weapon Spurs Boston Controversy | 6/27/1992 | See Source »

...banal and commercial of today's pop stars--people like George Michael and Phil Collins whose primary lyric is "I miss you, baby." With their pleasant, sleep-inducing hum, a cappella groups sing in a manner reminiscent of Muzak, that great piped-in music so often heard in certain Woolworth's branches...

Author: By Philip M. Rubin, | Title: It's Muzak to My Ears | 11/28/1990 | See Source »

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