Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Woolco department stores were launched in 1962 and closed in 1983. The first two Woolcos in Austin arrived in 1970.

Remember hiding in circular clothing racks while your mom shopped for BOGO deals, all while listening to the Muzak blaring over the speakers, wondering whether you'd make it home in time to watch TGIF ...

“I just stumbled across your Western Trails article done five years ago,” writes Kirby Dale about my short history of a midcentury community in Southwest Austin. “Just to clarify, Westgate Mall, ...