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  2. G. C. Murphy - Wikipedia

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    G.C. Murphy was a chain of five and dime or variety stores in the United States from 1906 to 2002. They also operated Murphy's Mart (full scale discount stores), Bargain World (closeout merchandise), Terry & Ferris and Bruners (junior department stores), and Cobbs (specialty apparel) stores.

  3. Variety store - Wikipedia

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    five and ten cent store, five and ten, five and dime (a dime is the name of a US ten-cent coin). [17] dime store; 5, 10 & 25c stores [18] five cent to one dollar stores [19] Before Woolworth, the prevailing thought was an entire store could not maintain itself with all low-priced goods, but with Woolworth's success, many others followed their ...

  4. List of defunct retailers of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Hess Shoe Store (1872–1999) – Baltimore, Maryland region. J. Brannam – a unit of the F. W. Woolworth Company established in 1979 that operated primarily in the southern U.S.; [62] closed in 1985 [63] J. Byrons – Florida-based retailer, sold to Uptons, closed in 1996; Jay Jacobs – Seattle-based clothier; founded in 1941 and closed in 1999

  5. Nostalgic Photos of Old-School Five and Dime Stores

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    Frank Woolworth opened his first five-and-dime store in Utica, New York, in 1879. By the time he inaugurated his monumental headquarters in New York City in 1913 — at the time, the tallest ...

  6. Classic Five-and-Dime Stores From Yesterday and Today - AOL

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  7. F. W. Woolworth Company - Wikipedia

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    The F. W. Woolworth Company (often referred to as Woolworth's or simply Woolworth) was a retail company and one of the pioneers of the five-and-dime store.It was among the most successful American and international five-and-dime businesses, setting trends and creating the modern retail model that stores follow worldwide today.

  8. Hampden, Baltimore - Wikipedia

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    Hampden is a neighborhood located in northern Baltimore, Maryland, United States.Roughly triangular in shape, it is bounded to the east by the neighborhood Wyman Park, to the north by Roland Park at 40th and 41st Street, to the west by the Jones Falls Expressway, and to the south by the neighborhood Remington.

  9. S. H. Kress & Co. - Wikipedia

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    The chain of S. H. Kress & Co. 5-10-25 Cent Stores was established in 1896 in Memphis, Tennessee. [1] In the 1920s and 1930s, Kress sold a house label of phonograph records under the Romeo trademark. He died in 1955. The events that led to the Harlem riot of 1935 began at the Kress department store at 256 W 125th Street across from the Apollo ...