Daily Quiz for May 1, 2008

Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Frank Winfield Woolworth opened his first five-and-ten-cent store in 1879 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Woolworth’s first venture, a five-cent store in Utica, New York, failed. Woolworth was born in New York’s Jefferson County in 1852. His success in Lancaster launched the F.W. Woolworth’s chain of stores nationwide, which numbered more than 1,000 by the time of Woolworth’s death in 1919. The Woolworth Building in New York City was the world’s tallest at 60 stories when completed in 1913.