The Five & Dime at Elm & Stone
by Paula Bosse
The 5-10-15¢ store beckons… (click for larger image)
by Paula Bosse
This pleasant photo by Dallas photographer George A. McAfee was taken at Elm and Stone streets. On the left, straight ahead is the Juanita Building (later the Deere Building), on Main Street, and, on the right, the Woolworth and W. A. Green buildings (the latter two are still standing).
I’m quite taken with that lamp post. (See the same type of lamp post in two other photos of Elm Street here.)
The view today can be seen on Google here.
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Sources & Notes
This photo by George Andrew McAfee is in the collection of the DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University; more information about the photo can be found here. SMU’s descriptive title is: “F. W. Woolworth Company Store, 1520-1524 Elm Street, W. A. Green Company, 1516-1518 Elm Street Looking South at Intersection of Elm and Stone, Praetorian Building at Far Left, Deere Building at 1528-1530 Main (Six-Story Building) Is Visible at South End of Stone Street, Deere Building (Formerly Juanita Building), circa 1920.” (I have inadvertently cropped off the very edge of the Praetorian Building.)
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I loved those old dime stores and recently have eaten at “Woolworth’s” on their balcony, a fun place. The entrance is on Stone Street behind Campisi’s.
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I like the lamp post too and don’t recall seeing one like it in other Dallas photographs of the period. Perhaps someone brought it back from Paris or Monte Carlo as a souvenir?
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I meant to put this link to two other photos with that same type of lamp post: https://flashbackdallas.com/2015/05/14/elm-street-looking-west-from-griffin/
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