BIG WOOLWORTH STORE TO OPEN IN JENNINGS
F. W. Woolworth Company will locate its largest shopping center store in the nation, with a total floor space of about 62,000 square feet, in the new River Roads Shopping Center in Jennings, it was announced Wednesday.

L. J. Sheridan & Company of Chicago, leasing agent for the project, reported that the new store will be 120 by 175 feet on the first-floor mall level, connected by an escalator to a lower level retail basement of 40,000 square feet.

The new $10,000,000 shopping center, under construction at Jennings Station and Halls Ferry roads, is expected to open in the fall of 1961. Included are a three-story Stix, Baer & Fuller department store of 250,000 square feet, a Kroger supermarket, restaurant, bowling alley and specialty shops.

The Sheridan Company said the center will feature underground delivery tunnels and an enclosed, air-conditioned mall.

The district office of Woolworth Company here said the new store will have an enlargement of the traditional variety store lines of domestic and imported merchandise. The company plans a large expansion in is cloth goods section at the store.

A large lunch counter also will be featured in the Woolworth store. Complete facilities for self-service shopping will be provided.

The new store is one of the 2200 Woolworth stores throughout the world. The chain was started in Lancaster, Pa., 81 years ago by Frank W. Woolworth. It now operates stores in every state of the union , and also in Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Union of South Africa, and British West Indies.

Source: St. Louis Post Dispatch, May 5, 1960