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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.


I spent a ton of money there, too!


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In the Chicago area - Weibolt's and Marshall Field's

There is a Rose's near me.

When did dime stores turn into dollar stores?

And, let's not forget:

 
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Here are a couple I worked for
Nobody beats The Wiz
Tweeter etc.
 
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Yielding's

Only folks from B'ham will recognize this!


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All of these were in Nj

Two Guys -- Like K Mart
Valley Fair -- Like K Mart
Burger Chief


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Shakey's Pizza
 
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Mammoth Mart
Nichol's Discount City
Firestone Home Centers
Goodyear Home Centers
Winn Dixie
Colonial Food Stores
B.C. Moore's and Son (a regional dept. store in the South)
Fotomat

Among others mentioned already, Western Auto was the most frequent source of Santa Claus' stops locally to resupply the sleigh on Christmas Eve.. Wink
 
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When Flint Michigan was a decent place to live, we had
Arlens dept stores
Yankee stores
Hamady groceries
Kmart-50 Pk of .22LR for $.49
Peoples furniture store
AM Davison- men's fine clothes
Miller wool- fabrics
Jacobsen's Dept stores
JL Hudson
MAAS-ladies clothes
The Vogue-ladies clothes
Smith-Bridgeman dept store
Bill Knapp
Winschullers
Winklemans
United Shirt
The Fair stores- dept stores
Ram charger car parts
Marshall music stores
Grinnell music stores
Cinema theater chain
Fanny Mae candy

And while I was travelling I liked

Howard Johnson
Stuckey
Baskin Robbins


Just off the top of my head. There were so many more of the local stores that I can't remember. This stuff sure takes me back.


In the 70's Genesee Valley Mall. I used to crawl on the green frog and get a frozen coke in the Sears cafeteria. Big and rare treat



 
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Lappens (Now advance auto)

Fretter (Similar to Circuit City)

Ames

Bradlees

Strawberries

Lechemere



 
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Tastee-Freez (there are a few still around, but growing up there was one a block from my grandparents in the '60s).
 
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Originally posted by 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.


I spent a ton of money there, too!


They did a lot of police supply too right? I think I did shoot there once.


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All of these were in Nj

Two Guys -- Like K Mart
Valley Fair -- Like K Mart
Burger Chief


I remember the Valley fair in Hackensack. I used to get my GI Joes there


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Winn Dixie

They've pulled out of my state, but Winn Dixie is still in business!
 
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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.


I remember a nice model shop in Gulf Gate Mall I don't remember the name now, and another good one named Warrens Models in Almeda Mall.
Almeda also had a Farrell's ice Cream Parlor, man that was great!

I remember UtoteM's (like a 7-11) and Burger Moutain Soda Fountain on Edgebrook.
Then there were the great BMX bike shops like the Raleigh shop in Pasadena, Pablo's Bikes in South Houston, Webster Bikes (still Open). Redlines, Kuwahara, SERacing, Mongoose, etc.

Deep River Armory, Alamo Gun Shop, the Down Town Woolworth that still had M1 Garands for sale.

If I only had a time machine.

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Tastee-Freez (there are a few still around, but growing up there was one a block from my grandparents in the '60s).

Best root beer freeze on the planet. Hope the one in Chino Valley, AZ is still open.


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Montgomery Wards comes immediately to mind; that's where my Mom and I used to go for my school clothes shopping each year.
 
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Piggly Wiggly, bitches
 
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Sambo's restaurants. They even had pages from the books in picture frames on the walls.


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S&H Green stamps.
 
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My first Tv was bought for me at Korvette's. About the same time they were going out of business. I remember buying some Micornauts half price in a going out of business sale. Big Grin




That reminded me of Lafayette's. I probably still have some electronics from them.


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