In 1962, hundreds waited for the ribbon to be cut, then ran into the new Woolco store, founded by the F. W. Woolworth Co., opened in Shreve City. Woolco was billed as a full-line discount department ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Woolco department stores were launched in 1962 and closed in 1983. The first two Woolcos in Austin arrived in 1970.

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“I just stumbled across your Western Trails article done five years ago,” writes Kirby Dale about my short history of a midcentury community in Southwest Austin. “Just to clarify, Westgate Mall, ...