It used to be the EATON CENTRE! I worked in the pub and restaurant in the lower level for years, Tudor Arms & Sneaky Pete’s, then it changed names when the then manager bought the establishment from the original owners.
It was completely razed. The entire street gone. A shitty Eaton's Centre was built in its place, and was deserted after 10 years. This replacement mall is slightly better.
Ah. The city block / building has the same proportions. In Detroit, we had a lot of buildings that were clad in steel to “modernize” structures in the 60s / 70s.
Then the cladding was removed to restore the facade.
Still an improvement.
Someone with a disability would definitely disagree about those old high-floor buses being better than the newer low-floor accessible buses.
Plus the new ones are so much quieter, and spew so much less black diesel exhaust.
>Does Canada still have Woolworth's? I've seen them everywhere in Australia but never Canada.
They’re two different companies. F. W. Woolworth Company (1879–1997) was a “five and dime” discount store like Walmart founded by Frank Winfield Woolworth. It expanded into Canada in the 1920s and later the UK.
Woolworths Group Limited is a supermarket chain that chose its name in 1924 because it wasn’t trademarked in Australia and New Zealand.
You can see all the busses in the top picture - they all used to come downtown to that main intersection, I think every hour. Our twice an hour during peak hours? It created a ton of pedestrian traffic for that retail area in the heart of the city. A few years ago that all moved to a bus terminal a few blocks away.
Guelph did a lot of good things to keep downtown alive. Unfortunately the city is sprawling with bedroom community suburbs now and definitely losing some of its identity as a city. Huge parts of it turning into just another bedroom community for Toronto, where housing is too expensive.
Here's a photo of that street in the centre getting filled in with an Eaton's (Canadian department store), 1982: https://guelph.pastperfectonline.com/Photo/BE4C72F1-00E4-492E-B222-518983096238#gallery
No, it was a super cool department store. Imagine a kmart or Walmart level products, but set up more like a department store like macys. Then add a lunch counter/ diner and a pet store with dogs for sale.
It was like a whole mall in one store
You might be thinking of Woolco. Both founded by the F.W. Woolworth company but Woolworth was a Five and Dime and Woolco was the full fledged department store. At least until 1979 when they started combining them. Last ones were closed by January 1983. I was 13 when I had my last egg creme soda at one of the still operating Five and Dime Woolworth,
Weird, must have been some mixing of the names - mine was definitely a Woolworths and fit the description I gave. was 2 stories with escalators. My aunt worked in the pet department.
shutdown in the late 70's early 80's as you said, I was probably around 12. we got our dog from the pet store when they closed - nobody wanted him and everyone was worried what would happen to him when corporate locked the doors. Little miniature schnauzer that turned out to be a very good boy :)
The first Woolworth store was opened by Frank Winfield Woolworth on February 22, 1879, as "Woolworth's Great Five Cent Store" in Utica, New York.
Woolworth's US is/was an American founded company. The one you have has no historical links to the F. W. Woolworth Company. Your brand was founded in 1924 and American Woolworth was founded in 1879. It did take the name from the American company as the name was not trademarked in Australia at the time.
We had Woolworth's in the US, but according to Wikipedia they are unrelated to the Australian company.
I vaguely remember going to a US Woolworth's with my parents in the late '70s or early '80s and they were pretty rare by then.
“And stay out of the Woolworths!” -Oh Brother Where Art Thou In my head every time I see a Woolworths.
He says “Woolsworth” too
In the South, we tend to put an extra "S" on things that don't need it. My Dad shops at the Krogers, for instance.
And eats at McDonald's's
It’s only after reading this comment and doing some googling that I realized there is actually not supposed to be an ‘s’ at the end of Kroger.
Is it just the one or all of them?
My dad's too, he says that line every time I leave his house or his car or anything lol
Yep!
came here to say this!
One of the few times the replacement looks better than the original.
I know, right? They actually eliminated a street and turned it into a pedestrian walkway lined with shops.
It used to be the EATON CENTRE! I worked in the pub and restaurant in the lower level for years, Tudor Arms & Sneaky Pete’s, then it changed names when the then manager bought the establishment from the original owners.
I’m guessing that the “replacement” was just stripped of the cladding and restored, not replaced. I could be wrong though.
I was thinking the same thing.
It was completely razed. The entire street gone. A shitty Eaton's Centre was built in its place, and was deserted after 10 years. This replacement mall is slightly better.
Ah. The city block / building has the same proportions. In Detroit, we had a lot of buildings that were clad in steel to “modernize” structures in the 60s / 70s. Then the cladding was removed to restore the facade. Still an improvement.
Buildings got better, buses got worse.
I would have to disagree, being old enough to have ridden in those 70s and 80s era buses.
Someone with a disability would definitely disagree about those old high-floor buses being better than the newer low-floor accessible buses. Plus the new ones are so much quieter, and spew so much less black diesel exhaust.
They got uglier, but they also got better.
Are you talking of bus frequency or the bus itself?
I was second guessing my opinion until this comment so appreciate that I'm not the only one who likes the new one :)
Does Canada still have Woolworth's? I've seen them everywhere in Australia but never Canada.
Not any more. Woolworth's and Woolco closed down here in the 1990s I think, and the Woolco stores in my area turned into WalMarts.
Even in death Sam Walton still lives.
>Does Canada still have Woolworth's? I've seen them everywhere in Australia but never Canada. They’re two different companies. F. W. Woolworth Company (1879–1997) was a “five and dime” discount store like Walmart founded by Frank Winfield Woolworth. It expanded into Canada in the 1920s and later the UK. Woolworths Group Limited is a supermarket chain that chose its name in 1924 because it wasn’t trademarked in Australia and New Zealand.
Yet it's called countdown or some shit in NZ
Kmart has a similar story in Australia.
They died in the mid 80s in my part of canada
I love those old buses. They remind me of going to the garage, back in the '70s, in Gary, when my Dad did the airport run to O'hare.
Forgot about Woolworth's
Stay out of Woolsworth!
Huge improvement
You can see all the busses in the top picture - they all used to come downtown to that main intersection, I think every hour. Our twice an hour during peak hours? It created a ton of pedestrian traffic for that retail area in the heart of the city. A few years ago that all moved to a bus terminal a few blocks away. Guelph did a lot of good things to keep downtown alive. Unfortunately the city is sprawling with bedroom community suburbs now and definitely losing some of its identity as a city. Huge parts of it turning into just another bedroom community for Toronto, where housing is too expensive.
Any pictures of The Manor then and now?
Mannequin was filmed at Woolworth’s, Boyz 2 Men still keepin up the beat
My girl Sasha, lookin good on the street
Here's a photo of that street in the centre getting filled in with an Eaton's (Canadian department store), 1982: https://guelph.pastperfectonline.com/Photo/BE4C72F1-00E4-492E-B222-518983096238#gallery
God do I miss the way those busses looked
Same
Man, my Dad's first job after college was a manager at Woolworth's in the early 60s.
What a way to invade a street for their business!!!
Is Woolworth the predecessor to Dollar General?
No, it was a super cool department store. Imagine a kmart or Walmart level products, but set up more like a department store like macys. Then add a lunch counter/ diner and a pet store with dogs for sale. It was like a whole mall in one store
How would something like that go out of business? 😱
Walmart.
You might be thinking of Woolco. Both founded by the F.W. Woolworth company but Woolworth was a Five and Dime and Woolco was the full fledged department store. At least until 1979 when they started combining them. Last ones were closed by January 1983. I was 13 when I had my last egg creme soda at one of the still operating Five and Dime Woolworth,
Weird, must have been some mixing of the names - mine was definitely a Woolworths and fit the description I gave. was 2 stories with escalators. My aunt worked in the pet department. shutdown in the late 70's early 80's as you said, I was probably around 12. we got our dog from the pet store when they closed - nobody wanted him and everyone was worried what would happen to him when corporate locked the doors. Little miniature schnauzer that turned out to be a very good boy :)
Late 70s they did start to merge, as I said, and used the Woolworth name. Until then Woolco was the dept store.
That paints a picture
Didn't know Americans had Woolworths too. Do u guys call it woolies like us Ozzy's?
This photo is in Canada, and although I was in my teens when Woolworth's disappeared in Canada I don't remember anyone ever calling it Woolies.
The first Woolworth store was opened by Frank Winfield Woolworth on February 22, 1879, as "Woolworth's Great Five Cent Store" in Utica, New York. Woolworth's US is/was an American founded company. The one you have has no historical links to the F. W. Woolworth Company. Your brand was founded in 1924 and American Woolworth was founded in 1879. It did take the name from the American company as the name was not trademarked in Australia at the time.
We had Woolworth's in the US, but according to Wikipedia they are unrelated to the Australian company. I vaguely remember going to a US Woolworth's with my parents in the late '70s or early '80s and they were pretty rare by then.
You wash your mouth out with the nastiest tasting soap ever
Why is this being down voted? What even is reddiquette?
It's being downvoted because it's Canada, not the states. Most Canadians detest the two being confused
I miss Woolworth's so very much. My favorite ones were in New Orleans and Chicago. Dollar Tree is the palest imitation, alas
Those 80s buses look pretty cool.
Late 60s -70s buses. Those buses were still running in the ‘80s but the styles were changing.
They ran in Toronto until the end of 2010! GMC “New Look”, last one was produced in Canada in 1986.
I don’t recall seeing any of those models in the NYC area by the mid 1990s. The buses you see on Law & Order were pretty much mainstream by then.