Greensboro's downtown S. H. Kress & Co. Building, not far from the F. W. Woolworth. These were anchor retailers in many cities large and small throughout the United States -- back when free standing surburban shopping malls and airport terminal malls were matters for science fiction. The Kress buildings were and are impressive, and have been mostly reutilized. Kress five and dime stores had lunch counters and were also, like the Woolworth counters, part of the sit-in movement.
Have you noted any Kress or Woolworth buildings in your nearby cities? If so, what are they being used for now? One Woolworth building I know of has a smoky jazz club in its basement.
Today's Rune: Defense.
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A few days ago I was bike riding down Lawrence Avenue, in the Albany Park neighborhood here in Chicago that I'd grown up in, and noted that the handsome building that the local Woolworth's was located in is still there, occupied by a dollar store. Five and dime, a dollar-- it's all the same.
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