Oh my gosh! I haven't thought of these stores in years. I grew up in L.A. and shopped "downtown" with my mother and went by streetcar. Had Woolworth's, Newberry's, and Kress. I didn't know about Ben Franklin's til I moved to Arkansas. Here there were Sterlings, TG&Y, Ben Franklin and the first Wal Mart I ever saw was in Booneville in 1973. WOW! Now there is nothing but Wally World as they put everyone else out of business by under cutting their prices and now they are pretty expensive on a lot of their stuff, especially their food. I can get better prices at a regular grocery store. So far, we have not lost our fabric dept. It is real hard to pay $8 or $9 a yard for fabric.