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52 Trade Houses Part 20 F.W. Woolworth’s

The Duluth Woolworth's where my father got his first job in the late 1930s.

Trade House Tackle, Part 20:F.W. Woolworth’s Frank Winfield Woolworth founded a true American iconic institution, and changed the way American business conducted their affair. The company he founded, F.W. Woolworth & Co., also sold a ton of fishing tackle, some of it branded. Born in upstate New York in 1852, he began working in a […]