Woolworths Christmas display
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ย. 2024
- This is the Woolworths room at the National Christmas Center in Paradise, PA.
This display includes matchless stars, bubble lights, candoliers, Shiny Brite, 1950s plastic santas, Glolite trees, mirostar candolier, bottle brush trees and wreaths, trains, bells, and other great vintage ornaments.
The lunch counter, that was the best part of going to Woolworths, oh so many sweet memories of my grandma and me....sigh!!!!
I remember going to Woolworths in the 70's, to Christmas shop. It was so much fun. A shame it had to close. I miss it!
Woolworth's was a big part of my childhood and I miss it.
How magical! I grew up in the 70s and 80s and even though I cannot remember shopping in a Woolworth's, I remember having many of these ornaments on our tree. Such a simpler time and so much joy as a kid to drag that old tree out every year and put the same ornaments on it. I wish we could go back to a time like this and they would bring Woolworth's back!!
I about died when I found this..Wow! As a child these collects evoked so many memories of my parents and how much Christmas meant to us as a Family. Our days were Blessed. Thank you so much ❤
Miss my mom taking me to Woolworths as a child during the holidays.
Would love to have a Christmas like that in a simple, happier time.
Very nice. I miss Woolworth's still after all these years. Well I should say I miss the early 1960s Woolworth's from my childhood.
Woolworths. Born in 1948 it was the go to store for decades, for the poor to lower middle-class. The hierarchy here in Canada in ascending order were Woolworths, Sears, Hudson bay and Eatons. As a child the Woolworths candy counter was the breath of heaven.
I grew up and born in Chicago in the 50's. I remember me and Mom used to go to Woolworths and sit at the lunch counter being little about three I needed help up on the stool. I felt like a big girl with all the big people around me. My mom let me order anything I wanted and of course I ordered my favorite, grilled cheese sandwich. I loved those stores. Too bad their gone.
I miss the 50's & 60's great time to grow up, always had big family reunions at Christmas, was a peace full time, a lot off the family is gone, and live different parts of the country, at least I have my memories.
💖😘💖 Me too...Keeping all of the wonderful and magical memories close in my heart forever.💕 Love and Peace to all always...✌️💞
I love this so much! I actually got teary-eyed remembering so many of these decorations from my childhood home. Woolworths was a magical place for a child to buy Christmas gifts with carefully hoarded nickels and dimes from their allowances. Those were the days!
Yes me too made me cry (◍•ᴗ•◍)❤
Yes....made me cry too... those times are so long ago and far away
😊🎄😊 Yes ...Miss those Fun and Happy Times.💖🎄💖
Me too, I got tears!
I loved that snow-covered church mom would display every year with the light inside and bell in the steeple. What joy and memories!
Our Woolworth smelled like popcorn when you walked in. The big bubbling dispensers of bright green and orange drinks! 50's.
This was A MUCH BETTER TIME
am so happy that some people thought to save a piece of Americana that one day all too soon would become a favorite memory of a generation - Woolworth at Christmastime!
I loved Woolworths. I actually got angry when they went out of business. My favorite thing at Woolworths was their bulk candy in a huge glass display. Most of their candy doesn't even exist today. At Christmas, if I could get enough sidewalk shoveling jobs (and I usually did and made some pretty good money, they usually game more watching me work so hard), I went to Woolworths to get my presents. I had two sisters and one brother that were easy to buy for. A good part of the time my family was on Welfare, but back then you didn't get free bees.
My stepdad took the hardest jobs to make sure earned everything we received. What really impressed me was during snow storms he was on the back hand shoveling the streets. It's such a shame that most youngsters never experienced what we did with Christmas being soexciting. To the liberals, the TV commercials helped make it even more exciting.
I don't get these people who complain so much about Christmas being so commercial. After Christmas, the really big holiday was Easter and it nearly as much fun as Christmas. We all got a brand new set of clothes for Easter service and the church had lots of goodies. Waiting to see our Easter baskets after church so fantastic, so full of candy. Then we had the Easter egg hunt, we almost all had strokes having so much fun. Then came Easter Dinner, a feast of ham that rivaled Christmas. If we couldn't afford all this Easter stuff, members of the church would give an entire dinner groceries and some money to get Easter clothes and Baskets.
All of these anti-religion people don't give anything to anyone at any time. Back then charity came from the heart, if you needed help you accepted it with grace and much appreciation. If you had a livable wage you helped those in need. With my two sons I gave them what I received at their age. I not only gave my sons amazing memories, but gave me the exhilaration of giving. Among other things, I never passed a Salvation Army bell ringer. I gave the boys each a dollar and we all put one in. I'm nearing 70 and my favorite thing in my life was helping others. That came from seeing Christian churches caring on a very personal level. Halloween, thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter taught us that caring about others and serving those in need helped us have a healthy mind and heart.
Thomas
Yes I agree
*Sapient Wisdom:* That you have met a kindly religious man does not prove a God. Believe in kindness if you will; we all should, but not necessarily in a God.
😷 AMEN & AMEN!!
Me too
As soon as I saw this video I remembered the smell. Wooly's had a smell like nowhere else on earth. It was a sort of sweet but earthy smell...like roassted peanuts and candy floss mixed together, hard to explain.
oh ya.i think i remember now.it was like an older home scent but it gave u comfort 2 b there.
Growing up we had a lot of this. My mom is a hoarder, bless her soul, and has managed to keep the same decorations. When my grandparents passed away, the decorations doubled so my sister and I received them. The only things that didn't keep well we're the plastic garlands of red and green, which became sticky and greasy, and the the old plug in candles. The wiring is so old it's not grounded and uses up electricity. Yet, the felt is still in good condition as is the other plastic products. For pennies these decorations sure did last.
I worked in Woolies when I was 15, and just before Christmas on a half day I’d volunteer to push an elderly lady in a wheelchair around the store and help with her Christmas shopping. There were around a dozen staff pushing wheelchairs around.This was done while the store was closed to the public making the experience more relaxed and safe. After the shopping was done we all enjoyed a party with jellies, paper hats, crackers etc. The local paper came and took a group photo of us all. My photo is published in a paperback book about our experiences in Woolworths. Those really were the days especially Christmas time. The excitement and all the buzz was really special. I’ve got lots of vintage decorations mostly from Woolworths and some are older than me (67).
Why can’t we go back in time, everybody was happier then.
I really wish Woolworth will still be open!😩 so many great memories !
Beautiful display. Much better times than today. Glad I lived in this era.
I so love this. I am 53 and it sure takes me back to happier days as a kid!
Candy Spencer back before the world went off its rocker lol
Candy Spencer 53... you are a kid.
Candy! I'm 53 too! We didn't know way back then just how good we had it... 🎄
I know right?! Sweet innocence! I want 1 of everything in this video for the prices on them! :)
I’m 56 and loved woolworths my grandmother shopped there and kmarts plus gold circle and kreskges we lived in ohio
I shopped at Woolworths all the time ever since I was a little girl in the 50’s till they closed. I would go up and down each aisle always finding something new! I loved going to their After Christmas sale and buy decorations for the following year.
Little did I know, when I bought a ceramic replica of their store for my husband’s Christmas Village that it would be right before they closed all their stores! Now, each Christmas when my husband sets up his Village, I always look for the Woolworth’s building with fond memories. There has never been another store like it.
My parents and grandparents always called Woolworth's the Five and Dime... What a great video! I have said for years that You Tube needs to add a love button in addition to the like button...
My brother in law was a manager at woolworths in chicago, back in the 60's i use to love to go in there when i was a kid,this brings back good memories, thanks
So beautiful. Takes me back to my childhood Christmas'.
Very nice. Thank you. Memories of my childhood when I had only fun things to do and think about
I have the “O” from the Woolworth’s that was on Lexington Ave in NYC. It hangs on my living room wall. A beautiful sculptural object on its own, as well as a campy piece of Americana.
I was lucky to live right across the street from Woolworths in Chicago! A luncheonette and everything. It closed around 1990. I thought it would be there forever.
Love seeing all these memories. I cant imagine 50 plus years from now people watching Wal mart memories!!!LOL
This brought me to tears…so many memories. When Christmas LOOKED like Christmas and everything was magical and wonderful.
One of my mom's first jobs back in the 50s and I am lucky to have a few of the pieces she bought from there. Thanks so much for sharing. Myself I wish I could go back to this time . Yes we have alot more technology but we lost so much of the human contact and caring about one another. Most people don't even know their names of the people nextdoor. Sad but true.
The museum is planning to close for good on January 7, 2018.I spoke with Jim Morrison, the owner, yesterday during our family's tour. He said it's difficult running this year round, but hopes there's a future for the museum. This is such a great place!
Those were the days, so magical.
Thanks for your memories. I miss Woolworths.☹️☹️
The memories
I still love Woolworths come back Woolworths you still have hundreds of loyal shoppers (◍•ᴗ•◍)❤to this day(◍•ᴗ•◍)❤
Heavenly... I just went back to my Childhood with Shivers of Joy !!!!
I wish you could have done more close ups of the shelves there were loaded with small toys and doll furniture. I appreciate this video! Thank you!
Thank you so much for posting this. It is so magical. I wish we could go back in time, but this is the next best thing.
Brings back good memories,😁☀️❤️
I loved Woolworths ...
Back than if one of the Parents passed away the children would take the one still alive in and take care of them they never put them in a home or assistant living my mom took care of my grandmother and grandfather until they passed. As we did for my Mom until she past..
LOVE THIS ,all the old Christmas displays!!!!!Merry Christmas ...we NEED a little Christmas right this very minute!!!!!!!!!
Oh my WORD! What a joy to see all these old friends once again! Thank you so much for sharing and God bless you! :)
A littl bit of nostalgia sadly is gone but still remembered. Good old Woolworths.
When I was a kid, my mom would take us to Woolworth's for the blue plate special. She had elves like the ones shown here. Thank you so much for sharing.
Way back when the world was sane and people were kind to one another. I'm old and life is just about done with me and the world going into the direction it is I won't be sorry to go. Good luck to all those who remain.
That same thought has crossed my mind too, but I have 25 to 30 years left if I remain healthy. The worst part is, by that time, I imagine it will be especially brutal for low and middle income old people.
I wish my dad was still alive to share this with him. 😞
I miss woolworths. Happy memories
Wow, this takes me back. My parents were married in 58 and I was born in 1967. My Mom decorated with a lot of this stuff when I was a child. She had the little elves everywhere, long before “Elf on a Shelf”.... so many great Christmases with family. ❤️
I love it!! It how I remember Christmas. So beautiful ❤️
What a fantastic video brings me back to going to Boulevard with my grandmother I wish the stores were still around they meant so much to so many people simple things for simple life too bad it’s gotten lost. I fortunately kept all my grandmothers decorations and I have most of the ones that you have in your video every year I put them up it always makes me feel closer to her I hope everyone one day goes back to the manners and morals that they had back then!!
When I was a kid you could take the bus to downtown Indy for 10 cents. The highlight of the trip was lunch at Woolworth's. My mouth still waters when I think of the delicious cheeseburger, fries, and fountain soda combo. That was back in the late 50's through the mid 60's.
I loved this video, it brought back warm memories from a long time ago. Thank you.
God how I miss these days
Remember cream drops?My grandfather loved those, every Christmas, he would get my mom or dad to take him to this store that sold them. He would buy cream drops and orange slices, the candy kind. And the hard candies too.The ribbon candy and the ones with the little flowers at the end.When he was growing up, he was born in 1903, he told us he would usually get a small toy and some candies and an orange or apple and fruits. He had a very hard childhood, his parents had him working in a textile mill at the age of eight, he never learned to read and write, that was so sad.
Sheri451 AWWW, sounds like my parent's childhood, my dad lived through the depression and had to go to work at the age of 9 :(
Sheri451 They still make all thoes candys. So you can eat one and know your grandpa is eating it to with you in Heaven!
Boy doI remember the ribbon candy, and the Orange slices. And if there was a nut, it was on our treat table with the Pecan Sandie's and Toll house chip cookies. Taught my kids the absolute importance of tollhouse chip cookies.
Wow, that's an amazing story. Thank you for sharing that. I used to love those orange slices too. ♡
I'm from the UK & I remember the wreaths & many other beautiful decorations that my family had. That's the wonder of Woolworths wish it were still here. Merry Xmas.
I love this stuff .I have a lot of it from Grandma and Mom and my own
Thanks for posting this Vedio. Miss the days of a better time in my life. Love seeing these vintage Christmas decorations again. MERRY CHRISTMAS🎄🎅2020
I could have spent the whole day in this room.
Where was this?? What a glorious trip back in time!
Oh I'll never forget those red cellophane wreaths with the electrical light bulb candles in the middle of it! Christmas time was so much more magical back then, not like today with all of the buy, buy, buy for mentality! Presents were opened up with sincere gratitude!
Wow! At ebay prices, that vintage stuff is worth a fortune! Awesome collection and display!
Just wonderful!!! Beautiful display!!!
I was so young. No more than 5 and I remember the elves.
Wow beautiful. I grew up in the 70's and Woolworth was still around. I loved the stores in general around The holidays. I simply adore glass ornaments. It's the only ones I put up on the tree. It's nearly impossible to find glass ornaments these days. Just love looking at three ornaments. Brings me back to my childhood. Thank you for posting
I so remember woolworths store zayrs on peterson here in chicago
Thanks for the memory. My mother took us to Woolworths all the time.
Gosh, this place was a staple. We had a family tradition that we always went there on Christmas Eve. All the gifts had been bought but we went anyway just to be there. It was wall to wall people but I loved every minute of it anticipating what Santa would bring in just a few hours.
I LOVED Woolworth's! There was one un Manhattan that I used to eat at the lunch counter on 42nd Street and 2nd Avenue in the mid-1990's. You could still buy a parakeet, goldfish or turtles in the pet department. They carried everything a person could want or need.
There was nothing like Woolworths at Christmas time! Loved going in and looking at all the Christmas stuff, Was definitely a must do at Christmas every year! To me it was just as exciting as Christmas and Santa coming! Would of been Christmas without Woolworths Christmas decorations! How I miss Woolworths at Christmas time! Thank you for this!
Love the elves!
Oh my God! Now that's very impressive collection.
I love this those were the good old days thanks for sharing
I forgot about those little mesh stockings. They were a part of my childhood for sure. When I got one before Christmas it was a big deal. What a beautiful display of goodies
1 Word ( Amazing ) Looking @ all the Decorations makes me think of how I felt about Christmas as a little Boy . The smell of homemade cookies , Steamed windows with an eight light Candelabra and Christmas Music Playing .
My Dad loved the National Christmas Center in Pa., when it was in Paradise. I am glad that it was bought and saved to be put on display at the Stone Gables Estate in Elizabethtown, Pa.--- can't wait for 2023!
I was 10 years old again. Thank you and Happy Holidays!!!
Memories pressed between the pages of my mind🎵
What a treasure trove! So enjoyed the trip down memory lane.
Thank you for the happy memories!
Love this took me back in time those were grand days ! Thanks
OMG!! What a wonderful display! We had some neighbors that shopped Woolworth's at Christmas time. Buying Old Spice and cheap perfumes to give as gifts. Great memories
Woolworth, may dear store! I miss it so much! Thank you for posting this.
Loved this video.So many memories. Thanks for sharing 👍
@70Dallas70 This was at the National Christmas Center in Paradise, PA. It is sort of a replica of a store in the past.
Christmasmemories1 Oh !!!! Thank you so much.
so cool!!!
Seeing the old decorations is wonderful. Also seeing the old prices.
When I was really small, we had some of these things too. My mom put the ornaments on the tree every year. Then we moved to my grandpa's house because my grandma died and he was miserable without her. We brought the ornaments to his house and then we moved again two years later. Those ornaments were left behind. I still remember them.
This is the BEST Christmas video I have ever seen!!! I loved every second.
Sheer vintage beauty. Thank you for the post and Merry Christmas!!!!
wow! beautiful filled with such treasured memories. Brings tears to my eyes. Thank you so very much for sharing.
I remember when .
Oh My Gosh!!!!This was sooooooo GREAT!!!! Thank-You soooooo MUCH!!!!
Lovely! I miss going to Woolworths that was my favorite store when I was a teenager.
a gumdrop tree!!!! omg memories....to go back in time to this and relive
Woolworth's was a classic store. I miss it so much.
I have glass bead garland from Woolworths i still use them every year.
Woolworths- the only place I ever got caught shoplifting, learned a lot from that episode, never been caught again after switching to baggy pants.
I'm so thankful I was able to visit the National Christmas Center twice! They are now in a different location.
Tried many times to explain to my kids what a five and dime store was, and how great they were. Had two in my village Woolworth's was one, can not remember the others name.
J.J.Newburry was the other.
"Newberry" sheesh!
Kress stores
West cots five and dime? That was our other dime store in Ohio.
I loved those stores! We had Woolworth's, Kress, Rose's, McClellan's, and Pope's, as well as the "fancier" stores like Sears and Roebuck and "Monkey Ward" (Montgomery Ward!)
Love all the old decorations. Wow look at the prices back then
Thank you so much for posting this!