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Every town had a Woolworths or general mercantile. Sears killed them off.

More likely K-Mart. You were more likely to find the little items people bought at Woolworth's at a K-Mart. Sears may have carried them too, but we usually went to Sears for bigger, more expensive, or more specialized things.

[blackdog]

1900 to 1950, no. The idolatry of retail bobbles had not gone full “Pet Rock” retard yet.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

In those days, about the only somewhat decent power tools you could find were at Sears.