I used to love Woolworth. Beyond the endless isles of crap that you could buy they had an electronics department that featured products from companies you never heard of for great prices. You could buy a dual cassette player from Scanasonic or Trony for like ten bucks! They also had the most odd assortment of tapes in their music collection. Looking for the soundtrack to CHOO CHOO AND THE PHILLY FLASH? Look no further than Woolworth!
Woolworth was also home to some good eatin'! Many Woolworth stores had "Coffee Shops" or "Lunch Counters". Seriously, that was my favorite place to eat back in the day. Any eatery that features it's entire menu on a laminated place mat...you know you're in for some good eats! They had great sandwiches (especially the burgers) and the Coke was perfectly a little too syrupy...and they had good ice too. Seriously, one year for my birthday I chose the Woolworth Lunch Counter for my birthday meal.
According to this commercial from 1976, Woolworth also had you covered in the Halloween department. This was the premier spot to pick out your cheap plastic costume of your favorite cartoon or TV character. And the lady in this commercial was very pleased to let you know that Woolworth also stocks candy for the Halloween season! She's very proud of the candy they have to offer...and who wouldn't be!?
It's so funny that this morning my mom and I were going to work and she mention the costumes like those in teh video. She was trying to explain it to me and how her mom would never let her get a costume like that since the mask could suffocate her. She was victorious after getting a casper costume after halloween for the price of ten cents. I come from the era a plastic smocks with the classic plastic mask. Now I think the kids are spoiled. Let's go back to the suffocating plastic mask and smocks and use our imaginations again.
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