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Post by alabamagal on Dec 10, 2020 12:30:21 GMT -5
Circuit City. We just got one in the small city I lived in when it went bankrupt. Had about a year of awesomeness before it closed. We didn’t get a Best Buy for several years.
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Post by kadee79 on Dec 10, 2020 17:18:44 GMT -5
I grew up in California and had always been accustomed to Woolworth's as a "dime store" or variety store with things like sewing notions, stationery, paper plates, cheap costume jewelry and accessories like scarves and hair ornaments, small tools, inexpensive toys, candy, stuff like that. It was the place you went when you needed some basic household thing or odd item. When I was stationed in Berlin, I was surprised to find that the Woolworth's there was a large department store with much of the same sort of things (of the sorts and by manufacturers Europeans liked) but also with many other things such as some decent mid-range household items like glassware and dishes as well as a large clothing section, furniture, and I think, appliances. It was huge, 3 stories. Later I learned that the Woolworth's stores on the East Coast were also in department-store format and had more than the West Coast Woolworth's offered. I'm so old, we called them 5-and-dime. 😝 And I'm old enough that I had a cousin who managed our local Kresge's! When they went to Kmarts, he opened his own hardware store. He is gone & so is his wife, but his kids still run his hardware store in Ill.
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Post by toomuchreality on Dec 10, 2020 17:48:44 GMT -5
We used to have Safeway and Albertsons in my area, but they haven't been here for years.
ZCMI was big in Utah, before they closed. I used to love walking around the downtown area before the malls took over. There were so many interesting stores to walk through. Record stores, small clothing stores, restaurants, jewelry and candy stores. Now, for the most part, they've all changed to businesses. There's not much to look at in the area any more. ☹ There was one, See's Candy, that had a big taffy puller in the window. It made taffy all day, every day. But everything was closed on Sunday.
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Post by steff on Dec 10, 2020 19:12:59 GMT -5
Foley's
Weiner's Palais Royal I do think all 3 were Texas/Houston based.
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Post by Apple on Dec 10, 2020 21:33:19 GMT -5
Oh... my first W2 job was at Lumbermen's Building Center. I loved my 100-year-anniversary t-shirt (grey, and had a photo of founder with his dog and a pickup on the back) and wore it for years after I quit working there. My ex ruined it
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Post by Artemis Windsong on Dec 10, 2020 22:10:11 GMT -5
A lot of the stores I have never heard of!
I do miss Ben Franklin, Payless and Toys R Us. I didn't shop the latter two. Maybe window shop.
I avoid our local mall unless I need something from one of the anchor stores.
I noticed one Target on a list!
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Post by Tennesseer on Dec 10, 2020 22:55:11 GMT -5
I'm so old, we called them 5-and-dime. 😝 And I'm old enough that I had a cousin who managed our local Kresge's! When they went to Kmarts, he opened his own hardware store. He is gone & so is his wife, but his kids still run his hardware store in Ill. I used to do my Christmas shopping at Kresge's. Hop the city bus as a ten-year-old and ride it downtown to shop. Tacky gifts for mom and dad but they graciously accepted them.
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Post by steff on Dec 10, 2020 23:15:59 GMT -5
Weiner's was a great clothing store. And they had lay-away. I literally always had a lay-away going on there. Pay one off & put another one in. That was back in the olden days when I had a real job in a real office out in the real world. Don't miss the work, but sure miss the clothes & the shoe shopping to match all the outfits. I'd fall off a pair of heels if I tried to walk in them now.
Foley's was a "nicer" department store. It was a Target to Montgomery Wards (Walmart). A little nicer, a little more costly, but not an 'upscale" department store. My aunt on my dad's side (a normal aunt) was a teacher by day & worked at Foley's at night & during the summer. For 30+ years. Foley's was eventually bought out by Macy's (I think).
Palais Royal was the upscale, ritzy, titzy clothing store. Only thing I ever bought there was Godiva chocolates. Only thing I could afford. lol
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Post by irishpad on Dec 11, 2020 0:36:22 GMT -5
This is a very local store.
King Leo's Hamburgers. It was probably the first fast food place I ever had food from. I looked it up online and they had restaurants just in ND (Fargo, Grand Forks, Minot). It was near my uncle's place in Fargo so it was a treat as a kid. At the time, I think the burgers were about 15 cents. lol
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Post by NancysSummerSip on Dec 12, 2020 16:05:07 GMT -5
Korvette's
Bamberger's
Nobody Beats The Wiz Rogers-Peet W&J Sloane
Abraham and Strauss Britt's B. Altman Best and Company
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Post by empress of self-improvement on Dec 12, 2020 16:26:36 GMT -5
Jordan Marsh ChildWorld Almy's Empire Rooks Kitchen Etc. - I was pissed when they went out because I wanted to register there when I got married.
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Post by Apple on Dec 12, 2020 17:44:21 GMT -5
Was Newberry's a thing anywhere else? We had a small one, really small, and when it closed down it was replaced with a clothing store called "The Hub". That didn't last long either before it too was replaced by something else.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Dec 13, 2020 16:27:36 GMT -5
Waldenbooks. My favorite store in the mall
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Post by NoNamePerson on Dec 13, 2020 17:11:13 GMT -5
H. L. Green ( called it Greens 5 & 10) had the best hot dog With Toasted buns. Probably bought out and became something else. There are others but I’m so old I can’t remember that far back
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Post by Tennesseer on Dec 13, 2020 17:36:54 GMT -5
Korvette's
Bamberger's
Nobody Beats The Wiz Rogers-Peet W&J Sloane
Abraham and Strauss Britt's B. Altman Best and Company
The commercials.
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Post by pooks on Dec 13, 2020 17:44:39 GMT -5
Montgomery Wards, Hecht's, Weather Vane, Fashion Bug, Sears, The Limited, B Dalton. I loved going to the Mall in the 90's, it was so much fun. I could stay there for hours. Even some of the cheap clothing held up.
ETA: Sam Goody and Petite Sophisticate.
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Post by chiver78 on Dec 14, 2020 8:50:07 GMT -5
I follow a FB group for my hometown, where people share anecdotes and pics from back in the day. cool stuff gets posted. yesterday, someone put up interior and exterior pics of the mall as it was til I was in HS. it was completely knocked down and rebuilt as a much bigger one, with a snooty high-falutin' wing of stores. anyway, the point - the old mall, and the store signs! Anderson Little, Herman's World of Sports, Thom McCann. more local names - York Steak House and Brigham's.
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Post by jeffreymo on Dec 14, 2020 16:36:44 GMT -5
Service Merchandise, Hill’s Dept Store, and MediaPlay
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Post by dannylion on Dec 14, 2020 20:09:40 GMT -5
Robinsons May - I hated it when Macy's acquired them. They had such good stuff and cost way less than Macys. Before Robinson's was acquired by May Co., it was a small chain of upscale department stores in California with a few in, I believe, Arizona. I worked at Robinson's in Beverly Hills while I was in college in the 1960s. There were often celebrities shopping in the store. I sold some knee socks to Mary Tyler Moore, hosiery to Deborah Kerr and Alice Ghostly, and perfume to Jimmy Durante and Nancy Sinatra, and Jerry Lewis was rude to me when I apparently got in his way because I didn't see him over the giant stack of hosiery boxes I was schlepping from the storeroom to the sales floor. As a minimum-wage retail job, it wasn't too bad, and as I recall we got a nice discount on store purchases.
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Post by mamasita99 on Dec 15, 2020 7:00:57 GMT -5
Woolworth’s was a favorite of my grandma. It was in the mall but had a restaurant attached to it! I remember her taking us there sometimes for lunch or a shake, while she enjoyed her Camel unfiltered cigarette. Ah, the 80s!
Bradlee’s and Montgomery Wards, Lerners, Toys R Us...
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Post by NoNamePerson on Dec 15, 2020 7:52:05 GMT -5
Woolworth’s was a favorite of my grandma. It was in the mall but had a restaurant attached to it! I remember her taking us there sometimes for lunch or a shake, while she enjoyed her Camel unfiltered cigarette. Ah, the 80s! Bradlee’s and Montgomery Wards, Lerners, Toys R Us... I'm so old I remember when Woolworth's was downtown and we didn't have malls But then everything was downtown. They did move to the mall in 1968 but kept the store downtown for quite a while so we had two!!
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Post by chiver78 on Dec 15, 2020 9:10:44 GMT -5
Woolworth’s was a favorite of my grandma. It was in the mall but had a restaurant attached to it! I remember her taking us there sometimes for lunch or a shake, while she enjoyed her Camel unfiltered cigarette. Ah, the 80s! Bradlee’s and Montgomery Wards, Lerners, Toys R Us... I'm so old I remember when Woolworth's was downtown and we didn't have malls But then everything was downtown. They did move to the mall in 1968 but kept the store downtown for quite a while so we had two!! ours was downtown, too. I think the building sign is still recognizable (even though it's got a different name on it now....) if you know what you're looking for. I didn't pay close attention on my joyrides with the pups this summer when I lived back up that way b/c the traffic pattern was so much different. they put a rotary in, right in front of what is now City Hall.
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Post by ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ on Dec 15, 2020 23:36:32 GMT -5
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Post by NoNamePerson on Dec 16, 2020 7:44:41 GMT -5
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Post by billisonboard on Dec 16, 2020 11:15:54 GMT -5
Name a Store that Ages You Hot Topic Zumiez Buckle Vans When I walk past these stores in the mall, I look in and wonder when I got so old. Makes me feel like I should be using a walker.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Dec 16, 2020 11:32:39 GMT -5
I still shop at Hot Topic. I don't buy the crazier stuff anymore but the perfume I am wearing right now comes from there. I was really sad when they stopped carrying it so imagine my excitement when I discovered it had been re-leased and in a bigger bottle!
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Post by weltschmerz on Dec 16, 2020 18:27:10 GMT -5
Blockbuster Welcome back! Scottish Lassie? Holy crap!! Where have you BEEN?? Welcome back!!
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Post by dannylion on Dec 16, 2020 22:49:32 GMT -5
Was Newberry's a thing anywhere else? We had a small one, really small, and when it closed down it was replaced with a clothing store called "The Hub". That didn't last long either before it too was replaced by something else. There were Newberry's in California. When my Dad arrived in California during the Depression, his first job was at a Newberry's.
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Post by flan327 on Dec 19, 2020 10:10:02 GMT -5
My job in college was at Service Merchandise
I worked the switchboard and jewelry department but I loved working in the cash office
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Post by Jake 48 on Jan 2, 2021 19:03:25 GMT -5
Jordan Marsh Brigham's ice cream
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