A half-century ... mid-day. "Everybody came to Woolworth to eat," Jeroldine "Jerrie" Tollison said, as she recalled her 42 years as a full-time employee at the store. "In the day, our lunch ...

When its first lunch counter opened in New Albany, Indiana, around 1923, the F.W. Woolworth Company was already known for innovation. Founded by Frank Winfield Woolworth in New York in 1879, the ...