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Roderick Howard Allen (16 May 1929 – 22 August 2007) was a British advertising executive who wrote many well known advertising slogans and jingles used in the United Kingdom. He was nicknamed the "jingle king". Allen was born in Consett, County Durham and worked in advertising from the age of 17. His career was only interrupted by National ...
The Woolworth Building is a 792-foot-tall (241 m) residential building and early skyscraper at 233 Broadway in the Tribeca neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City. Designed by Cass Gilbert, it was the tallest building in the world from 1913 to 1929, and remains one of the 100 tallest buildings in the United States as of 2024 .
Richman Brothers. 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.
The British branch of the F. W. Woolworth Company, which had been founded in Pennsylvania, F. W. Woolworth & Co. Ltd, was founded by Frank Woolworth in Liverpool, England, on 5 November 1909. [17] Frank Woolworth had ancestry in Woolley, Cambridgeshire — Frank claimed he had traced his ancestry through the Founding Fathers of the district to ...
The young women and girls at Woolworth’s worked a 52-hour week, were paid 28 cents an hour and barely cleared $14 ($296 adjusted for inflation) after six days — about half of the wage of ...
Hanniger-Johnson Building (Bisbee, Arizona) Bisbee, Arizona. 31°26′30″N 109°54′58″W. / 31.44167°N 109.91611°W / 31.44167; -109.91611 ( Hanniger-Johnson Building) 1907. Not built for Woolworth, but best known as the local outlet of the retailer. Owned by the same owner since 1994, houses a nostalgia store and suite rentals.
Frank Winfield Woolworth (April 13, 1852 – April 8, 1919) was an American entrepreneur, the founder of F. W. Woolworth Company, and the operator of variety stores known as "Five-and-Dimes" (5- and 10-cent stores or dime stores) which featured a selection of low-priced merchandise. He pioneered the now-common practices of buying merchandise ...
Push-up bras weren’t new, of course — one of the earliest padded bras dates back to 1948.The Wonderbra brand, which dates back to the late 1930s as an offering from the Canadian Lady Corset ...