America's first chain store, F.W. Woolworth
The rodeo queen, Joan Moore, appeared at the 1958 opening of the new Woolworth's in downtown Tucson (at Pennington and Congress.) With the rodeo queen is Roy Miller, left, president of the Tucson Retail Trade Bureau, and Jack Bingham, right, the store's manager. Photo by Jack Sheaffer.
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On Feb. 22, 1879, F.W. Woolworth opened the first chain store in America in Utica, NY. The c…
