Teppes
Cresgies
Farmer Jack
_____ Five & Dime

I remember going to Handy Dan hardware store all the time with my Dad.

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Originally posted by Rolan_Kraps:
Rose's
Zayre's
TG&Y (5 and dime)
Grants
Blue Boar Cafeteria
Thornberry Toys
Schwinn Stores

There's a Roses in Blue Ridge on 515. There's at least one more around, but I forget where.

Oh.. huh. http://www.rosesdiscountstores.com

Jupiter Store--part of SS Kresge Co. They sold irregulars. I got transferred into one on Main St. in Cincinnati in 1974. Two blocks from Vine St. What a neighborhood!! This little country boy learned a lot.
W T Grant Co-- similar to Woolworths.
Dahlkampers
Stambaugh Thompsons
Hills Dept Store
Sveden House buffet

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Originally posted by Skins2881:

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Originally posted by Orguss:
FAO Schwarz

What??? I can't play chopsticks on a giant piano anymore? Should have crossed off that bucket list item earlier

They closed the New York City store last year. Up until then, it was the only one remaining.

I'm from Houston, and a big part of my childhood was following my mom around in Globe and Sage department stores. Also, World Toy and Gift Shop was my favorite toy store of all, which used to be in Rice Village.

In Tidewater VA area

Champ's (hamburger chain tied to Muhammad Ali)

Burger King

The Great American Ice Cream Store (eating the "Gorp" got you a pin, your name on the wall and a 2 day belly ache from eating too much ice cream. They would bring the "Gorp" to your table on a hospital style stretcher)

Jimmy Buffet's Cheeseburger in Paradise (recently)

Two already mentioned:
Bill Knapps (I'll have a burger and bean soup and cinnimon ice cream)
Sveden House buffet (take all you want, but eat all you take)

But the one I miss the most:
Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour
It looks like they are making a comback
http://farrellsusa.com/

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Originally posted by 2Adefender:
E J Korvette. Anybody remember that store

I bought my bedroom furniture from them in 1966 and still have it. Made out of solid wood.

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Originally posted by Rightwire:
Teppes
Cresgies
Farmer Jack
_____ Five & Dime

Can't forget,
Harmony House
Revco Drugs
W.T Grants
Farrell's (Ice Cream shop)
Sherman Drugs
Damman's Hardware

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Originally posted by Dusty78:
Today while at an antique mall I came across this gem.

I had that Corvette phone. It was a cool phone, but it had to be flat on the table in order to fully engage the switch hook for it to be on-hook. If a tire was on some envelopes or paper tablets, it would jack up the phone enough to be off-hook. One time, I waited for my girlfriend to call me for an hour before I realized the phone was resting on some coins on the desk, causing the phone to be off-hook. I guess I didn't hear that warning off-hook alarm from its teeny earpiece.

We always went to Dolgins. Soon to be KMart where I always got a slurpee. I believe their version was an icee.

You made me remember Waccamaw Pottery in Myrtle Beach. They never sold firearms, but had pretty much anything else you could think of.

Big Bear Supermarkets (where I had my first job packing groceries)
S S Kresge's ("dime stores")
Woolworth's ("dime stores")
Montgomery Wards (biggest competitor to Sears & Roebuck's)
J L Hudson's (had the biggest US Flag in all Detroit--it covered 10 stories of their store for the Thanksgiving Day parade; also--I think--built the first real Mall, Northland)
Crowley-Milner department stores

flashguy

Yeah, my father had one of those.

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Originally posted by Rightwire:
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_____ Five & Dime

Rose Records in Chicago; got bought out by Tower Records and then that went out of business as well...

Burger Chef.

OH yeah, Burger Chef and Jeff

Places from years back that are gone: Luckeys Gro. Store, Piggly Wiggly Gro. Stores, Pay and Pac, Prairy Mart, Payless Druges, F&N Dept. Stores, White Front Dept. Stores, W.T.Grant Dept.Stores, Albertson Gro. Stores, Rexall Drug Stores, Wigwom Dept. Stores, and so many more that were here, but folded up. Things and places change over time, but not always for the better. Gary.

One store in particular I remember was Mrs Rings market on the corner of Court and Ann Arbor streets. It was an old wood building with apartments on the second floor. You had to go up three stairs to get through the screen door. It had a spring which creaked then snapped the screen shut. In the summer the wood and glass door was always wedged open for cooling, and shut tight in winter.
Once inside, the counter was directly in front of you. It had a scale on the right side of the counter, and on the left, our favorite. Several rows of candies lined up in teirs by price. Wax bottles about 2 inches tall with a sweet liquid inside; wax lips and mustaches also on the bottom. Up a row were those NECCo wafers that didn't taste like much along with other items like Lifesavers, Koolaide, and the like. At the the top were the true top shelf candies; Paydays, Baby Ruths, Tootsie Rolls, and the like. If we were flush we would spent 5 or 10 cents on the top row. Otherwise, wax candies or little dots you peeled off of paper backing were the treat. Sometimes Bazooka gum, or Squirrels. Once in a great while one of us has the money to buy a tube of BBs for our rifles.
Along the back and side walls were coolers for dairy and meats. Several rows of shelves with bread and other boring items ran down the worn wood plank floor to the back.
Mrs Ring looked quite old in her old blue coat, white hair and silver glasses. Especially to a group of 8-10 year old kids. She passed away about 1962 and the old store closed down. She had payed for her children's education by working in her store for years after her husband was killed in the war (WWII). None of her children wanted the store.
Whenever I drive by that corner, I can still see that store as it was in the 50th and 60s. The whole block was torn down in the late 60s. Along with my childhood home.