Many came straight from the shelves of five-and-dimes and department stores.
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In the 1960s, in department stores and even five-and-dimes, there were lots of little sewing things — zippers and bobbins and threads.
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Americans stopped going to their neighborhood diners, grocers, haberdashers and five-and-dimes, shifting their business to big malls, and blighting the central business districts of towns and cities across the country.
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Lunch counters were once commonly located inside retail variety stores ("five and dimes" or "five and tens" as they were called in the United States) and smaller department stores. The intent of the lunch counter in a store was to profit from serving hungry shoppers, and to attract people to the store so that they might buy merchandise.
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Sebastian S. Kresge was a prosperous traveling salesman when, in 1884, he purchased a part interest in two retail stores.S. S. Kresge World Headquarters Building from Detroit1701.org One of them was located in Detroit; Kresge moved to the city and soon gained control of a five and dime retail store on Woodward. Kresge applied his own name to the store, and by 1899 was beginning to build a chain of five-and-dimes.
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Pierce placed a greater emphasis on the production and sale of country LPs than his major label competitors. Throughout the 1960s, Starday released scores of LPs with garish and kitschy covers that became favorites of country music record collectors. Starday was extremely successful with LP sales by utilizing a unique “rack jobber” network. Starday sales reps spread across the South, installing small record racks in country stores, five-and-dimes, truck stops and supermarkets.
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William Walker McLellan (1873 - April 11, 1960) was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He came to the United States at the end of the nineteenth century, and began working at a department store in Newark, New Jersey. He became a manager of the first S. H. Kress store in Memphis, Tennessee, and then joined McCrory Stores as a vice president. In 1917 he founded McLellan Stores, a chain of five and dimes, which grew to 200 stores by 1933.
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Promotions Unlimited had stepped in as a supplier for many Ben Franklin franchisees during the corporation's descent into bankruptcy. It acquired the name of the chain in 1997 as the old corporate entity was moving into Chapter 7. It has continued operating as a distributor servicing individual franchisees and advertising the products sold there through direct mail services and newspaper inserts. The chain comprises about 209 craft stores and 123 variety stores, the latter being akin to five and dimes.
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The S.H. Kress company had a long- established presence in Fort Worth prior to 1936. The national chain of five- and-dimes first arrived in Cowtown in 1905 and since had moved into its third space in 1924. In 1936 it was determined a new structure was needed to handle growing business. Kress architect Edward F. Sibbert’s design mimicked much of the flagship New York store’s design while making room for Meso-American accents (such as the stylized Mayan caps above the upper windows) popular throughout Fort Worth’s Art Deco buildings.
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Variety stores, which used to commonly be known as five and dimes or dime stores, and now are most common as dollar stores such as Dollar General, which sell goods usually only at a single price-point or multiples thereof (£1, $2, etc.). During the early and mid- twentieth century chains such as Woolworth's, J. J. Newberry and S. S. Kresge lined the streets of shopping districts of America's downtowns and suburbs; these stores had origins as five and ten cent stores, but later moved to a model with flexible price points, with a variety of general merchandise at discounted prices, in formats smaller than today's discount superstores.
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Sibbert-designed Kress Building in Daytona Beach, Florida, one of many former Kress stores admired today and in use for other purposes. Edward F. Sibbert (July 1, 1889 – 1982) was a Brooklyn-born American architect. He is best remembered for the fifty or so retail stores he designed during a 25-year career as the head architect at the S. H. Kress & Co. chain of five-and-dimes. His tenure at Kress coincided roughly with the company's peak years of success, and many of his Art Deco-style buildings have survived beyond the chain's 1980 demise and are in use today in other purposes.
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F. W. Woolworth, an entrepreneur who had become successful because of his "Five-and-Dimes" (5- and 10-cent stores), began planning a new headquarters for the F. W. Woolworth Company in 1910. Around the same time, Woolworth's friend Lewis Pierson was having difficulty getting shareholder approval for the merger of his Irving National Bank and the rival New York Exchange Bank. Woolworth offered to acquire shares in New York Exchange Bank and vote in favor of the merger if Pierson agreed to move the combined banks' headquarters to a new building he was planning as F. W. Woolworth Company's headquarters. Having received commitment from the banks, Woolworth acquired a corner site on Broadway and Park Place in Lower Manhattan, opposite City Hall.
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