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Today while at an antique mall I came across this gem.  Check out that tag. Service Merchendise was a catalog department store that sold electronics, home goods, sporting goods, etc... that price tag really brought me back. I used to love that place as a kid. Some others come to mind: Woolworths: no explanation needed Caldor and Bradlees: competing budget department stores that were sort of a precursor to Kohls or target type stores Britches: preppy LL bean type store A&S (Abraham & Straus) and Alexanders: Macy's competitors Nodody Beats the whiz and Crazy Eddie's: New York metro area electronic stores Showbiz Pizza: competitor to Chuck-E-cheese where the main character (animatronic) hillbilly bear Comp-USA: heaven for computer nerds back in the day Roy Rogers: burger and chicken fast food joints with fixin's bar so you basically constructed your own burgers (there might be some one off Roy Roger's still around along with some at rest stops.) Let's hear yours..... _______________________________________________ Use thumb-size bullets to create fist-size holes. | ||
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Dow Sound City (SoCal stereo shop) The Warehouse Tower Records 5&10 Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. "If dogs don't go to Heaven, I want to go where they go" Will Rogers The definition of the words we used, carry a meaning of their own... | |||
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My wedding band came from Service Merchandise. Figured it would get beat up (it has), didn't make sense to sink a bunch of money into one. I nominate Turtles Records and Tapes. -- I always prefer reality when I can figure out what it is. JALLEN 10/18/18 https://sigforum.com/eve/forum...610094844#7610094844 | |||
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Johnny's Toys may have been a 1 off toystore in Grennhills Ohio. You got a key mailed to you on your birthday and it opened up the special birthday room for you to pick a present. Circuit City ———————————————— The world's not perfect, but it's not that bad. If we got each other, and that's all we have. I will be your brother, and I'll hold your hand. You should know I'll be there for you! | |||
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Woolworths If it won't matter in 5 years don't give it more than 5 minutes. | |||
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There was a Johnny's Toys in Milford as well. Castle and all. the kids got a key every birthday. Around Cincy: Albers Grocery Swallens Sgt. Pants Gentry Thriftway Steinbergs Gidding Jenny Toy House at the old Kenwood Plaza Pogues McAlpins Cincinnati Sports Gold Circle Zayre Walden Books Brendamours Peaches Records Shillitos Sight and Sound King Kwik I will come up with more. Niech Zyje P-220 Steve | |||
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Crazy Eddies  ____________________________________________________ The butcher with the sharpest knife has the warmest heart. | |||
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| Not as lean, not as mean, Still a Marine  |
KB Toys. I preferred it over Toys-R-Us personally. Up here we had a slew of discount stores that are all gone now... Freezes, Zayres, Ames, Rich's... I shall respect you until you open your mouth, from that point on, you must earn it yourself. | |||
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Zayre's TG&Y (5 and dime) S&H Greenstamps store Dilly's Deli (Don't dilly-dally come to Dilly's Deli!) “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” - John Adams | |||
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Montgomery Wards!! Brown's Dept Store! Sears and Roebucks??????? Western Auto! WOW | |||
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Zayre's, KB Toys, Circuit City, Tech HiFi (and all the other stereo equipment stores) "I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation." Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II. | |||
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Monkey Wards and Woolworths come to mind. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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| 186,000 miles per second. It's the law. |
This is a nostalgic topic for me. I remember collecting glass pop bottles on the road-sides, and taking them to the local corner store for 5 cents each, and buying candy. Usually gum or some kind of stick hard-candy. This was about 45 years ago. It was a small corner store. And then I subsequently had a paper route a few years later, and would buy candy on collection-days. I had a coin-counter on my hip, to sort the change. Tips were sparse and minimal. Seems like a different century, these days. Oops..it was. | |||
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Drill Here, Drill Now |
A bunch other posters listed. One that hasn't been posted was A&P which was a grocery store. I liked it because they sold chocolate licorice which is better than red licorice and orders of magnitude better than black licorice. Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. | |||
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Unhyphenated American |
Western Auto Otasco __________________________________________________________________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. Richard M Nixon It's nice to be important, it's more important to be nice. Billy Joe Shaver NRA Life Member | |||
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Go Vols! |
TG&Y Not sure about Fred's | |||
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Waiting for Hachiko |
I can't remember if this was a national chain or local here in Virginia, but growing up we always got catalogs from the Best stores. Watches, jewelry, bikes, and our parents would make a trip to Richmond for our "Santa" gifts. Best stores High's Ice cream shops Browse through this list of defunct stores: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...of_the_United_States 美しい犬 | |||
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I forgot the Jitney Jungle! “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” - John Adams | |||
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Palmer's Video. First thing that came to mind. Was there before Blockbuster. Been gone for decades now though. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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