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Stores from your childhood that no longer exist

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April 07, 2017, 12:01 AM
ZSMICHAEL
Stores from your childhood that no longer exist
[quote]Piggly Wiggly
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Piggly Wiggly still in Mississippi. Cas Walker in Knoxville, Handy Andy in San Antonio.
April 07, 2017, 12:02 AM
DMF
J. Riggins Clothes.

The first suit I ever bought with my own money was purchased there.


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April 07, 2017, 12:05 AM
ZSMICHAEL
Cas Walker classic commercial how he deals with thieves. Good for a laugh. He was the real Deal!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFi-649Uezs
April 07, 2017, 01:30 AM
oldbill123
Hi Fi Buys
Builders Square
Blue Point
Linders ice cream
Rosalyn Bakeries
April 07, 2017, 02:40 AM
ftttu
Also in Houston, Sakowitz, a department store, and Mading's Drugstore are a couple more places of the past.


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April 07, 2017, 03:11 AM
BurtonRW
To the OP - I've got great news for you! Roy Rogers is alive and well. Sure, they disappeared for a while, but there have always been a few out in the sticks up here and since they started to really expand again a few years back, there are even more - including one about a mile from my house that's only a couple of years old.

Next time you're up my way, Trigger Burgers are on me. And they're just as good as they always were - fixin's bar and everything!

-Rob




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April 07, 2017, 04:48 AM
Floyd D. Barber
quote:
Originally posted by 10X-Shooter:
OH yeah, Burger Chef and Jeff



Better burgers than Mickey D's or BK.


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April 07, 2017, 05:52 AM
sigarms229
Montgomery Ward
Best (bought my first shotgun there)
Circuit City
KB Toys



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April 07, 2017, 06:41 AM
just1tym
Hobbytown. Slot car racing at it's best for endless hours and days of fun. Some of my fondest memories of roast beef sandwiches and cokes everyday!


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April 07, 2017, 07:00 AM
Deqlyn
Venture.
Winchells donuts.



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April 07, 2017, 07:09 AM
mrapteam666
When I was growing up in Cols, OH.
Rinks
Gold Circle
Showbiz ( I know it was already mentioned but I had a ton of birthday parties there)

County Seat Clothing store in Westland Mall. ((That is where all the cool kids bought clothes.))

Sun TV
Drug Emporium
Central Harware
Burger Chef
Ground Round
Brown Derby
Little Professor book store
Sambo's
Rax Roast Beef
Sisters Chicken

Woolworths: Man if I could go back and buy all the WW2 rifles they used to sell for $50-$88.

In Richmond, VA
Tower Book Store
April 07, 2017, 07:23 AM
MRBTX
quote:
Originally posted by ftttu:
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.


Yep. There was a Globe and a Weingartens on 59 near Little York IIRC.
Joske's, another Houston store.
April 07, 2017, 07:40 AM
Floyd D. Barber
Remember when the drug stores had "that smell"?


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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

April 07, 2017, 08:06 AM
JordanR
piggly wiggly

U-tote-m (convenience store)

TG&Y toy store - toys, Games and yo-yo's

Sound Warehouse (record store)



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April 07, 2017, 08:10 AM
TMats
There's a bunch of 'em, most named already.

Peaches Records and Tapes

Gart Brothers Sporting Goods

May D&F and Denver Dry Goods Department Stores

Brandeis in Nebraska


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April 07, 2017, 08:38 AM
UTsig
I grew up in the Elizabeth, NJ area, here area couple that are long gone:

Jahn's Ice Cream - famous for the Kitchen Sink Sundae Union, NJ
Bond's Ice Cream - the "Awful, Awful" milk shake Elizabeth, NJ
Goerke's Dept Store
Levy Bros Dept Store

Most of the original stores along the infamous RT 22 like:
The Adventure Car Hop - late night street racing in the mid '60s.



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April 07, 2017, 08:42 AM
roberth
quote:
Originally posted by oldbill123:
Hi Fi Buys
Builders Square
Blue Point
Linders ice cream
Rosalyn Bakeries


There is a vacant Builder's Square here in Westminster, I've lived in the area for 12 years and the space hasn't been leased in all that time.




April 07, 2017, 08:47 AM
Mr.9mm
We had Peppermint Records here. Buy/sell/trade in used albums for credit toward a new one.
April 07, 2017, 08:53 AM
FN in MT
A one off store, not a chain. But THE store that went away, that I miss the most would be Ray's Sport Shop in N. Plainfield, NJ.

One of the absolute BEST gun shops to have ever existed. Had a run of about forty years, then it was simply closed.

They were big time S&W distributors. sold thousands of guns to Police Departments all over the East Coast. They seldom had less than several hundred USED handguns in stock.

I probably bought forty to fifty guns from them from my teens to when they closed about a dozen years back.
April 07, 2017, 09:09 AM
cheesegrits
quote:
Originally posted by JordanR:
piggly wiggly

As someone else mentioned, Piggly Wiggly is still in business. They have over 500 stores.

I remember being dragged around J.B. White's department store by my grandmother when I was young.

There was a restaurant in Columbia, SC called Cogburn's that closed in 1999. They were famous for their steak sandwiches, which were great.

I also recall going to Slug's in Charlotte for the prime rib and to Lineberger's Fish Camp in Gastonia. My family clearly traveled on our stomachs!