I remember walking the street of Broadway and Ash as a child growing up in Plainview, Texas. I remember walking in the door of F.W. Woolworth's and smelling the smell of freshly swept wood floors.
I don't remember shopping there often. I do remember us grands going together and buying our grandfather an alligator. That's right. They sold baby alligators! I've shared this before, but I laugh as I think about how surprised my grandmother was and how our grandfather got the old metal tub out and we all sat around in the backyard and watched it swim, climb on the rock he placed in there, and snap my grandmother's pencils in half.
Here is an early F.W. Woolworth menu.
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