The first J.G. McCrorey's 5 & 10 Cent Store was in Scottdale, Pennsylvania. The mercantile opened in the fall of 1882. 

Photo from the McCrory Stores Corporation Annual Report 1946

J.G. McCrory (1860-1943). Legend has it that he had the "e" legally extracted from his surname as a cost-cutting measure. With new stores opening practically every day, the savings incurred from one less letter on the sign added up!

Photo from https://hgsic.wordpress.com / Historical & Genealogical Society of Indiana County, Pennsylvania

A newspaper advert from December 1927 promotes the grand opening of the Brownsville, Texas McCrory's. 

Graphic from the McCrory Stores Company 

The McCrorys' "5-10-25 cent Store" -in Syracuse, New York- is depicted on this vintage postcard.
Graphic from the Boston Public Library

The interior of a circa-1946 McCrorys.

Photo from the McCrory Stores Corporation Annual Report 1946

Another 1946 store snapshot.

Photo from the McCrory Stores Corporation Annual Report 1946

The logo for 1946.

Graphic from the McCrory Stores Corporation

A corporate trademark from 1953. 

Graphic from the McCrory Stores Corporation 

A breakdown of the McCrory Corporation from the mid-1960s. By this time, a variety store mega-company is known as MMG (McCrory-McLellan-Green). It operates 566 units. As one can see, the Corporation had a varied portfolio, operating not only MMG but Otasco, Lerner Shops and the S. Klein department store chain of New York.

Graphic from the McCrory Corporation Annual Report 1965

The McLellans chain -of 235 stores- merged with McCrorys on January 30, 1959. The assets and retail stores of H.L. Green Company, Incorporated were added to a new MMG division in March 1961.

Photo 1 from the McCrory Corporation Annual Report 1960

Photo 2 from the McCrory Corporation Annual Report 1961

One of many shopping mall McCrory stores, this one was a junior anchor at Maryland's FREDERICK TOWNE MALL, when it opened in 1972.

Photo from "McCrory Stores Former Employees" / Joe Tierney

In September 1972, the McCrory Corporation took over the entire J.J. Newberry (Newberrys) and Britts enterprises. 

Photo from the McCrory Corporation Annual Report 1972