The F.W. Woolworth Company celebrated the grand opening of their store # 105 (in Tacoma) on November 2, 1950. The four-story building at 955 Broadway had entrances on both the Broadway and Commerce Street levels. It replaced the Fidelity Building which had stood on the corner from 1890 until in was demolished in 1949. Woolworth closed their Tacoma store in 1993.

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A view of the exterior of the F.W. Woolworth Company building recently completed in Tacoma from across Commerce Street. The store's escalator can be seen through the large window on this side of the five-and-dime's building. TPL-4551

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This photograph of the recently completed million dollar F.W. Woolworth Co. building, 955 Broadway, was taken from across Commerce St., for the Roy T. Earley Co., engineers in January of 1951. The Woolworth store replaced the Fidelity Building that had stood at the corner of 9th and Broadway from 1890 until it was demolished in 1949. The News Tribune called the new building "the most up-to-date beautiful store of its kind in the world." After the store closed in 1993, it was sold and transformed into a giant telephone switching station with no public access, and its people-oriented uses limited to the art gallery space created in its street level windows.

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The F.W. Woolworth Co. building was constructed on the site formerly occupied by the Fidelity Building at 11th & Broadway in 1950. Woolworth's celebrated the grand opening of store #105 on November 2, 1950. It was the end of an era when the department store / variety store closed its doors for the last time in 1993. (TNT 11-2-50, B-6)

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Exterior of F. W. Woolworth, Co. building site. Razing of the old Fidelity building to make way for the new million dollar structure was completed at the beginning of 1950. Sidewalk barriers surround the construction site. The grand opening of the new Woolworth building was 11-1-1950. Photograph commissioned by W.H. Opie and Co., real estate sales.

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