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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 3/29/26 – MOM & POP STORE DAY

The best ones have a funny but pleasant smell to them, and are a little bit weird. And that’s just how we like them on NATIONAL MOM & POP STORE DAY! Before shopping malls, before box stores the size of Yankee Stadium, before shopping online, we had Mom & Pop stores. Mom & Pops could […]

TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 2/22/26 – WOOLWORTH’S FIVE & DIME DAY!

1 Comment / National Days / By Bob Crespo

It’s where Mom took you to shop for bargains, and movie stars got discovered sitting on a stool at the soda fountain, making today NATIONAL WOOLWORTH’S FIVE & DIME DAY! On February 22, 1879, Frank Winfield Woolworth opened his first store, “Woolworth’s Great Five Cent Store” in Utica, New York. The store wasn’t as great as

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