Three historic Woolworth buildings in SoCal face different futures, from fire damage to revival and adaptive reuse.

DOWNTOWN BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — The red and gold “Woolworth’s” sign in Downtown Bakersfield represents not only a fun outing, but a piece of history. With the help of a city grant, Woolworths ...

Untapped Cities will be offering readers the chance for intimate, hour-long tour of the normally off-limits Woolworth Building lobby led by Lisa Swyers, a preservationist working directly with the ...

Lynn Merrill was eating lunch on a bench outside San Bernardino City Hall on a warm Monday last month when a fire engine raced by. With alarm, Merrill saw a plume of smoke rising only two blocks away.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Woolworth building was built in 1950 in Bakersfield. (Courtesy Sherod Waite) The Woolworth's lunch counter was once a nucleus ...

Readers share recollections of childhood lunches and banana splits at the onetime 20th century staple, columnist David Allen ...

Grand Central Terminal is not the only New York landmark celebrating its one-hundredth birthday this year. The Woolworth Building, Manhattan’s gothic-style “Cathedral of Commerce,” was also built in ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. — The former Woolworth building on Wall Street will be used as a pop-up retail space through the summer and early fall as part of efforts to “reactivate” the space, the owner’s ...