Woolco

patk · January 26, 2009, 10:07:47 AM

i 2nd that :o
man thats old :warning:

jmcnamara96 · January 26, 2009, 10:40:56 AM

QuoteOriginally posted by XDeSuEhTX
Nice find...

do you have those????

XDeSuEhTX · January 26, 2009, 03:10:14 PM

QuoteOriginally posted by jmcnamara96
QuoteOriginally posted by XDeSuEhTX
Nice find...

do you have those????

Nope. Just found the pics.

XDeSuEhTX · January 26, 2009, 03:12:09 PM

A still vacant Woolco?! I'm not sure where, I think maybe Canada. Taken in 2006 I believe. Someone needs to get more pics of this location.

XDeSuEhTX · January 26, 2009, 03:17:25 PM

Federick, MD Wooclo add.

XDeSuEhTX · January 26, 2009, 08:49:03 PM

videogamer75 · January 27, 2009, 08:04:45 PM

Wow, they actually still use the original sign on that store in Hampton, VA!

I only know of one former Woolco near me, Pleasantville NJ, which is now a Kmart and is still mostly intact.

nims57 · January 27, 2009, 10:09:19 PM

QuoteOriginally posted by videogamer75
Wow, they actually still use the original sign on that store in Hampton, VA!

I only know of one former Woolco near me, Pleasantville NJ, which is now a Kmart and is still mostly intact.

Wow... and I thought I knew Pleasantville. Do you mean the one in Somers Point?

nims57 · January 27, 2009, 10:12:16 PM

QuoteOriginally posted by XDeSuEhTX
A still vacant Woolco?! I'm not sure where, I think maybe Canada. Taken in 2006 I believe. Someone needs to get more pics of this location.

that might be fake

videogamer75 · January 27, 2009, 10:32:04 PM

QuoteOriginally posted by nims57
QuoteOriginally posted by videogamer75
Wow, they actually still use the original sign on that store in Hampton, VA!

I only know of one former Woolco near me, Pleasantville NJ, which is now a Kmart and is still mostly intact.

Wow... and I thought I knew Pleasantville. Do you mean the one in Somers Point?

Nope, I know that this store is in Pleasantville proper. It is across the street from the Sams Club.

http://maps.live.com/#JnE9eXAuS21hcnQlN2Vzc3QuMCU3ZXBnLjEmYmI9MzkuNDAwMTM4NTgxMTc4NiU3ZS03NC41MzA5NzEwNTAyNjI1JTdlMzkuMzg5MDM5MTg1MjM2OCU3ZS03NC41NDk3Njc5NzEwMzg4

XDeSuEhTX · January 27, 2009, 10:45:49 PM

QuoteOriginally posted by videogamer75
QuoteOriginally posted by nims57
QuoteOriginally posted by videogamer75
Wow, they actually still use the original sign on that store in Hampton, VA!

I only know of one former Woolco near me, Pleasantville NJ, which is now a Kmart and is still mostly intact.

Wow... and I thought I knew Pleasantville. Do you mean the one in Somers Point?

Nope, I know that this store is in Pleasantville proper. It is across the street from the Sams Club.

http://maps.live.com/#JnE9eXAuS21hcnQlN2Vzc3QuMCU3ZXBnLjEmYmI9MzkuNDAwMTM4NTgxMTc4NiU3ZS03NC41MzA5NzEwNTAyNjI1JTdlMzkuMzg5MDM5MTg1MjM2OCU3ZS03NC41NDk3Njc5NzEwMzg4

Link doesn't seem to work.

the506 · January 29, 2009, 08:50:25 PM

I've seen that picture on the last page before. It was the Avalon Mall in St. John's, Newfoundland, and looks like was taken sometime in the 80s, possibly early 90s (remember, Woolco was still in Canada until 1994).

(For what it's worth, the Sobeys logo you see elsewhere in that pic was used from the mid-70s to late-80s, and Sobeys is usually good at updating its store designs.)

The Woolco was converted to a Wal-Mart in 1994, but Wal-Mart pulled out a few years later and it's now a Sears.

XDeSuEhTX · February 13, 2009, 12:05:38 AM

Found some more pics.

Former Woolco now Save A Lot among other things.

XDeSuEhTX · February 13, 2009, 12:14:59 AM

Old picture. Wichita, KS. I believe.

Mervyns · February 13, 2009, 07:25:59 PM

That would be amazing if there were a still-vacant Woolco. There is, however, a still-vacant Grant City in Clementon, NJ.

videogamer75 · February 13, 2009, 10:29:59 PM

QuoteOriginally posted by Mervyns There is, however, a still-vacant Grant City in Clementon, NJ.

I've been to that store before, I also took this picture of it:

Mervyns · February 13, 2009, 10:48:22 PM

QuoteOriginally posted by videogamer75
QuoteOriginally posted by Mervyns There is, however, a still-vacant Grant City in Clementon, NJ.

I've been to that store before, I also took this picture of it:

You were there when it was open?

videogamer75 · February 14, 2009, 09:54:25 AM

No, I just went there when it was abandoned. I wasn't even born until nearly a decade and a half after Grants went out of business.

By the way, it was also a Woolco afterwords, and then a flea market. It's been abandoned since maybe the early 1990's.

If you do a Google Book Search on the book ''Clementon'', you can see a picture of it when it was still open (as Grant City)! That's how I found out that the original tenant for the supermarket next door was Shop-Rite.

wwefan101 · February 14, 2009, 10:57:52 AM

i heard of them my family has talked about them before

FearlessSwan · March 10, 2009, 12:05:31 PM

TheRetroNickFan · March 10, 2009, 09:38:54 PM

That's AWESOME! :)

jmcnamara96 · May 05, 2009, 02:40:15 PM

I was just add good will and bought a party stearmers for 10 cents and had a woolco sticker on it for 68 cents ill post pics later also
My mom said when she was a kid she went to the Lowell Mass Woolworth next door to a Woolco she said they were on Merriamack Street and the Woolworth had a Soda Counter and she said they had cheap Jewelery

nims57 · June 13, 2009, 05:56:27 PM

Does anyone know if the Value City in Hazleton, PA was a Woolco?

XDeSuEhTX · June 14, 2009, 01:38:25 AM

Pics would make it fairly easy to determine.

nims57 · June 14, 2009, 09:31:38 PM

QuoteOriginally posted by XDeSuEhTX
Pics would make it fairly easy to determine.

I have no pics, just the address: 1099 N. Church Street, Hazleton, PA 18202

Sorry but Live Search Maps (now called Bing Maps) doesn't recognize the address, or most addresses I try for that matter.

XISMZERO · June 15, 2009, 09:21:39 PM

This must be the location in question, right? It's actually recognized in Hazle Township, not Hazleton.

jmcnamara96 · July 17, 2009, 08:12:29 PM

Heres the sign in Nashua used by Kohls and Home Depot and Burlinton Coat Factory
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XDeSuEhTX · September 10, 2009, 10:53:36 AM

Found these pics on an old retail blog, I don't think they've been posted here yet.

This is a really neat blog, tons of info on Woolco in excruciating detail, lots of pics too, including indoor ones. Lots of other stores too.

Check it out - http://pleasantfamilyshopping.blogspot.com/search/label/Woolco

shore72 · October 26, 2009, 10:13:10 PM

Here is the store we shopped at weekly when I was a kid:

This is in the Nylon Capital Shopping Center, Seaford, De. It stayed open until the bitter end. Nothing else has ever been in here...still vacant. They keep plastering newspaper on the windows, and it keeps falling down. We peered in recently and the floor was wet, not a good sign. The signage on the store was changed sometime in the 90s I guess-I preferred the old blue lettering that was there before. This was the store where I bought my first parakeet, among many, many other things! The shopping center and the Woolworths date from around 1960, maybe a little earlier. Here is the sign out front:

I'm not so sure the Woolworths part of it isn't still there, just turned inside out.

There was a store in downtown Cambridge, MD-I thought I had a pic but haven't found it yet. Also on the downtown plaza in Salisbury, MD, and inside Dover, Delaware's Blue Hen Mall.

gu4ever · October 27, 2009, 01:42:24 PM

QuoteOriginally posted by shore72
Here is the store we shopped at weekly when I was a kid:

This is in the Nylon Capital Shopping Center, Seaford, De. It stayed open until the bitter end. Nothing else has ever been in here...still vacant. They keep plastering newspaper on the windows, and it keeps falling down. We peered in recently and the floor was wet, not a good sign. The signage on the store was changed sometime in the 90s I guess-I preferred the old blue lettering that was there before. This was the store where I bought my first parakeet, among many, many other things! The shopping center and the Woolworths date from around 1960, maybe a little earlier. Here is the sign out front:

I'm not so sure the Woolworths part of it isn't still there, just turned inside out.

There was a store in downtown Cambridge, MD-I thought I had a pic but haven't found it yet. Also on the downtown plaza in Salisbury, MD, and inside Dover, Delaware's Blue Hen Mall.

That's a great photo shore72. The Woolworth's that we had locally were old school that tried to modernized. I do remember visiting a modern store in Maine, I want to say at the Maine Mall, but I'm not positive now. That location was good size, well lit and layed out.

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