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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kmart store front with cars in parking lot - Snyferok/Getty Images The last time I was in a Kmart, I remember the location having ...

Kmart’s US end has been called the ‘slowest, most humiliating demise in retail history’. That is far from the case Down Under ...

Shoppers enter the Big Kmart store at 5305 E. Admiral Place on Tuesday. It's one of 326 nationwide that will be closing its doors, the bankrupt retailer says.

“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, ...