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Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 3:37 pm
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Wow! I haven't thought of Woolworths in years!! Open the door and all at once yer hit in the face with the odor of cotton candy, popcorn and hot dogs! Great milkshakes!!

I don't know how many parakeets and goldfish I brought home from there! Also use to buy my 45s there as they had the biggest selection and the Top 100 stocked!

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a selection of boiled sweets or chocolate that you pick for yourself and pay by the weight.


What on earth is a "boiled" sweet?? If'n you folks don't eat the darnedest things! :lol:

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yes they sure do. :lol:


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The Woolworth company in the US went defunct in the mid 90s and morphed into Foot Locker. The Woolworths outside of the US share the name only but are completely unrelated to the company in the US, I think. Check it on Wikipedia!

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-Ryco wrote:

What on earth is a "boiled" sweet?? If'n you folks don't eat the darnedest things! :lol:


sugar, lots of additive and flavoured water , were still on rationing here you know :D .

If you think spotted dick pudding is bad you ought to see the typical 4am saturday morning food. The stuff that we eat when were blind drunk and staggering home :oops:
The only thing to surpass it is the stuff you eat when you get home in that state and havent eaten on the way home. The weird concotions of food that seem a good idea when youve drank a few too many.

meat pie in a bowl of tomato soup anyone? :!:


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I haven't seen a Woolworths in years. I thought they were out of Business years and years ago........along with Newberrys.
Ya I used to like going there. The one near me had a nice old time snack counter. Made some good clubs!

Oh man, are you taking me back with that snack counter. I remember being a small boy shopping with mom and grabbing a club sandwich there.

So Cal hasn't seen a Wooly in a long, long time.

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The stuff that we eat when we're blind drunk and staggering home :oops:


Yeah, we had that thread where we were all going round Ian Sheridan's house for late night beer and doner kebabs - Ian strangely vanished from the Forum for a couple of weeks when that was suggested...

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Woolworths USA sold off its franchises around the world decades ago and shared only the name thereafter. My wife's (now ex-) American employee was telling us this afternoon that Woolies US went under in the '90s...?

Apparently, in Australia and South Africa Woolworths is a very respectable middle market department store, a bit like Marks & Spencers. In the UK they could never work out what they wanted to be and took themselves ever further down market - which is never going to work out in the end as countries get richer and richer. Apparently they go down today with debts of £300,000,000. Shazzam!

Still: gotta love that Woolworths Building in NY. The only such building ever to be paid for in cash, I believe?

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They were a great five and dime store over here for many years. Like one post said back in the 60's and 70's you could get all the new 45's and albums there. and they all seem to have a fair pet department with fish, pigs and gerbals and lote of birds. I would say they did the same thing here they started to sell cheaper and cheaper stuff until they were no more. Hard to compete with the Walmarts and Targets which were getting bigger and bigger. Lots of big stores have gone away like Wards, Hutzlers, E.J Korvette, McCrory's all stores from the past that I am sure many here in the U.S remember well.

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Bought my first slayer lp at woolies, as well as my first metallica poster. That was hundreds of years ago though


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