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Post by Reactionary Rage on Jan 4, 2020 14:33:17 GMT
I used to love Woolworths. Spent many an hour staring at the walls of VHS tapes in the 80s.
Bought Lovesexy in there amongst others.
It was a much loved high street shop.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2020 14:42:18 GMT
I didn't realise Woolworths were an American company, from Pennsylvania. The first British store was in Liverpool in 1909.
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Post by oleandermedian on Jan 4, 2020 16:16:00 GMT
There was this “lavish” and really crappy mini-TV series about Woolworths heiress Barbara Hutton on British TV in… the 80s, I dunno. She had this very glamorous lifestyle that didn’t at all square with the very plain image of Woolies as I knew it. My local one had a pretty good record section in the 70s and early 80s – singles and LPs. Some of the LPs you had to be careful with though – The Sound of Wings (big letters) by the Boston Pops Orchestra (small letters) and suchlike.
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Post by tory on Jan 4, 2020 16:19:00 GMT
I have affection for Woolworths even though it was the only place I was caught shoplifting. IIRC it was for a Twix, Mars Bars and a Double Decker at the age of 14.
Never did it again, even though I had plundered WH Smith's for the 87/88 Panini stickerbook previously.
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Jan 4, 2020 16:23:02 GMT
I used to buy records in BOOTS in Carlisle, but nobody else I know seems to remember them stocking vinyl...
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Jan 4, 2020 16:28:06 GMT
There was this “lavish” and really crappy mini-TV series about Woolworths heiress Barbara Hutton on British TV in… the 80s, I dunno. She had this very glamorous lifestyle that didn’t at all square with the very plain image of Woolies as I knew it. My local one had a pretty good record section in the 70s and early 80s – singles and LPs. Some of the LPs you had to be careful with though – The Sound of Wings (big letters) by the Boston Pops Orchestra (small letters) and suchlike. YES! They were good for MFP (Music For Pleasure) reissued records and tapes. I bought Relics, Searching For The Young Soul Rebels, Trans-Europe Express, and I THINK Love Bites on the label.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2020 16:49:25 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2020 17:34:49 GMT
What a great site - thanks!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2020 17:32:42 GMT
UK Woolworth's seem a lot different than US ones, the ones near me anyway. I don't remember seeing anyone under 65 at the two that were near me. They were discount dept. stores, not unlike Dollar Tree or the Dollar Store we have now, except they had a lunch counter.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2020 13:53:08 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2020 14:52:58 GMT
Woolworths seems quite naff looking back. I get the nostalgia though. I miss Binns in the town more.
Sunderland lost its last independent bookshop, Hills, 15 years ago, after being open since the 1850s. I was into calligraphy for a time and there was a great selection of pens and paper on the top floor. It was bigger than any Waterstones we've had. There was a very well-loved Jewish toyshop called Josephs just around the corner on Holmeside as well which went at around the same time. It's now a bar bearing the same name.
Anyone remember Job Lots? That was your real bargain basement supermarket that made Lidl seem like Harrods.
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Jul 4, 2020 16:39:38 GMT
I don't, no. The absolute rock-bottom cheapo supermarkets I knew of before Lidl and Aldi were Lo-Cost and Kwik Save.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2020 17:52:04 GMT
Yeah I remember Kwik Save. And Food Giant, which I used to cut through on the way home from school for a comic.
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