Woolworth’s dominance was challenged by a boom in discount retailers, and by 1997 the company closed its 400 remaining U.S. stores. The last operating lunch counter, in Bakersfield, California ...

The historic Woolworth’s building, reopening as early as August 15, is going to have a lot of music, as its basement stage ...

I thought Woolworth’s had lunch counters, too — there was that famous one in Greensboro, North Carolina. But Tomczak said the Woolworth’s in River Roads Mall did not have a lunch counter.

But Tomczak said the Woolworth’s in River Roads Mall did not have a lunch counter. Instead, it had, on an ascending scale of fanciness, a takeout counter with no seating and two full restaurants.

The 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in display in the National Museum of African American History and Culture will not be removed from the museum, Smithsonian officials say.

Despite controversy, the Woolworth’s lunch counter exhibit at NMAAHC remains on display, securing a key piece of Civil Rights history.

Woolworth Lunch Counter stools are exhibited at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 14, 2016. Opening to the public September ...

Woolworth Lunch Counter stools are exhibited at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 14, 2016.

Woolworth Lunch Counter stools are exhibited at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 14, 2016.

The lunch counter existed from the time that F.W. Woolworth opened in 1912 at 205 E. Douglas until it closed on Dec. 22, 1990, a month ahead of the 12,000 square-foot store.

The lunch counter existed from the time that F.W. Woolworth opened in 1912 at 205 E. Douglas until it closed on Dec. 22, 1990, a month ahead of the 12,000 square-foot store.