Woolco, a full-line discount department store company,  was founded in 1962 in Columbus, Ohio by the F.W. Woolworth Company. The first Woolco store was located in Columbus. 

By 1966, there were 18 in the United States and nine in Canada with corporate plans to open 30 more stores per year.  By the mid-1970s, over 300 Woolco stores were in business across North America.  Many locations contained Red Grille restaurants selling popcorn, milkshakes, and other fast-food items. 

The American stores were closed in 1982.  The remaining Canadian stores were sold to rival Walmart in 1994.

This advertisement for the Westbank location ran in the September 3, 1966 edition of the Times-Picayune.

In the early 1950s, Carlisle was an occasional panelist on the NBC game show, Who Said That?,  She was a panelist on To Tell the Truth from 1956 to 1978.  She was also a semi-regular panelist on Password, Match Game, Missing Links, and What's My Line?

On December 31, 1966, Carlisle made her debut with the Metropolitan Opera  as Prince Orlofsky in Strauss's Die Fledermaus and made her final performance with the company was on July 7, 1973

Carlisle resumed her film career in 1987 in Woody Allen's Radio Days .  She also appeared in 1993's Six Degrees of Separation.  Her last movie appearance was in Catch Me If You Can (2002) in which she played herself in a dramatization of a 1970s To Tell the Truth episode.

Known for her gracious manners and personal elegance Catherine Conn was honored by her New Orleans school, Louise S. McGehee, as a Distinquished Alumnaein 1994. She was a long-time spokeswoman for the arts. served 20 years on the New York State Council on the Arts. In 1991, and received the National Medal of Arts from President George H. W. Bush. She passed away on April 17, 2007.

On September 3, 1814, the British ship HMS Sophie fired on a pirate ship returning to Barataria. Jean Lafitte's ship grounded in shallow water where the larger British ship could not follow. The British raised a white flag and launched a small dinghy with several officers. Jean Lafitte and several of his men rowed to meet them halfway. Captain Nicholas Lockyer, the commander of the Sophie, had been ordered to contact Lafitte, the "Commandant at Barataria". He was accompanied by a Royal Marine infantry Captain, John McWilliam, who had been given a package to deliver to Lafitte. The Baratarians invited the British officers to row to their island. When they had disembarked and were surrounded by his men, Lafite identified himself to them. Many of the smugglers wanted to lynch the British men, but Lafitte intervened and placed guards outside his home to ensure their protection. McWilliam brought two letters in his packet for Lafitte: one, under the seal of King George III, offered Lafitte and his forces British citizenship and land grants in the British colonies in the Americas if they promised to assist in the naval fight against the United States and to return any recent property that had been taken from Spanish ships. (The British were allied with Spain against the French and the US.) If they refused the offer, the British Navy would destroy Barataria. The second item was a personal note to Lafitte from McWilliam's superior, Lieutenant Colonel Edward Nicolls, urging him to accept the offer. Believing that the US would eventually prevail in the war against Great Britain, Lafitte thought he could more easily defeat the US revenue officers than he could the British navy. He had also been told in August that American officials were planning an assault on Baratria with forces under the command of Commodore Daniel Patterson. They feared that Lafitte and his men might side with the British.  Fromhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Lafitte.