“I do not want to be the big looking glass of civilization but just the little pocket mirror of everyday life.” Peter Alterberg You wouldn’t think that peeling a clementine over the kitchen ...

The small town of Lauscha, deep in a fir tree forest in Germany’s Thuringian mountains, is the birthplace of glass Christmas tree ornaments. Entire families have been making them there since the ...

However, the Christmas season of 1980 marked the end of one staple of downtown shopping. The pioneer of the five-and-dime — F.W. Woolworth Co., or simply Woolworth’s — was closing for good.

The same is true for Bethlehem’s Betty Geppert. Christmas in the 1930s and ’40s was a time to take a dollar to the five-and-dimes to get all the presents she needed.

Frank Woolworth opened his first five-and-dime store in Utica, New York, in 1879. ... candy by the pound — even a special room dedicated to Christmas goods open year-round.

East Aurora, N.Y. — For the fifth time, an iconic store in Western New York will be featured in a holiday movie. Vidler’s 5 & 10, an East Aurora shop billed as the largest five-and-dime ...

Woolworth's, Grant's, and McCrory's may be gone, but the history of five-and-dime stores is still alive at locations across the country.

Twenty five years ago it was the end of an era as F.W. Woolworth’s, the original five-and-dime store launched more than a century before, called it quits. The once mighty retail pioneer ...