Woolworths Christmas display 

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!

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!!

Woolworth's was a big part of my childhood and I miss it.

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.

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.

This was A MUCH BETTER TIME

Would love to have a Christmas like that in a simple, happier time.

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...

Very nice. Thank you. Memories of my childhood when I had only fun things to do and think about

So beautiful. Takes me back to my childhood Christmas'.

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!

I loved that snow-covered church mom would display every year with the light inside and bell in the steeple. What joy and memories!

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.

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.

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

Thanks for your memories. I miss Woolworths.☹️☹️

Our Woolworth smelled like popcorn when you walked in. The big bubbling dispensers of bright green and orange drinks! 50's.

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 really wish Woolworth will still be open!😩 so many great memories !

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.

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.

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 so love this. I am 53 and it sure takes me back to happier days as a kid!

I love it!! It how I remember Christmas. So beautiful ❤️

Brings back good memories,😁☀️❤️

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

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.

LOVE THIS ,all the old Christmas displays!!!!!Merry Christmas ...we NEED a little Christmas right this very minute!!!!!!!!!

I loved Woolworths ...

Beautiful display. Much better times than today. Glad I lived in this era.

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.

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.

Love the elves!

Those were the days, so magical.

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.

Heavenly... I just went back to my Childhood with Shivers of Joy !!!!

Oh my WORD! What a joy to see all these old friends once again! Thank you so much for sharing and God bless you! :)

I miss woolworths. Happy memories

God how I miss these days

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!

I still love Woolworths come back Woolworths you still have hundreds of loyal shoppers (◍•ᴗ•◍)❤to this day(◍•ᴗ•◍)❤

This brought me to tears…so many memories. When Christmas LOOKED like Christmas and everything was magical and wonderful.

I wish my dad was still alive to share this with him. 😞

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.

Love seeing all these memories. I cant imagine 50 plus years from now people watching Wal mart memories!!!LOL

I could have spent the whole day in this room.

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!

I love this stuff .I have a lot of it from Grandma and Mom and my own

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.

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.

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.

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

Just wonderful!!! Beautiful display!!!

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. ❤️

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..

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!!

I was so young. No more than 5 and I remember the elves.

Wow! At ebay prices, that vintage stuff is worth a fortune! Awesome collection and display!

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 remember when .

I so remember woolworths store zayrs on peterson here in chicago

A littl bit of nostalgia sadly is gone but still remembered. Good old Woolworths.

Thank you for the happy memories!

Love this took me back in time those were grand days ! Thanks

Oh My Gosh!!!!This was sooooooo GREAT!!!! Thank-You soooooo MUCH!!!!

Oh my God! Now that's very impressive collection.

Thanks for the memory. My mother took us to Woolworths all the time.

Memories pressed between the pages of my mind🎵

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.

I was 10 years old again. Thank you and Happy Holidays!!!

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.

Loved this video.So many memories. Thanks for sharing 👍

Thank you so much for posting this!

wow! beautiful filled with such treasured memories. Brings tears to my eyes. Thank you so very much for sharing.

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!

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.

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 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

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!!!!

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 .

What a treasure trove! So enjoyed the trip down memory lane.

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.

Oh boy what hood memories!!!!!

Woolworth, may dear store! I miss it so much! Thank you for posting this.

This was so great,thank you so much,really enjoyed it.

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!

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

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.

Seeing the old decorations is wonderful. Also seeing the old prices.

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

I have glass bead garland from Woolworths i still use them every year.

Omg! Great memories!

@70Dallas70 This was at the National Christmas Center in Paradise, PA. It is sort of a replica of a store in the past.

Oh I just love all of the treasures ❤️

Woolworth's was a classic store. I miss it so 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