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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:02:41 PM EDT
I was just thinking about some of the old stores that used to be in the town where I grew up, as I was passing through just yesterday...
Gibsons Montgomery Wards Woolworths TG&Y Ben Franklin 5&10 (5&dime) A&P what else ya got? I'll add a poll after we get a few more... adding: OSH Orchard Supply Hardware Eagle Hardware Shakeys Pizza God Fathers Pizza Osco Drug Stuckys (gas stations littered along the highway) Ho Jo's (Howard Johnson's) Might be some of these left.. 84 Lumber Builders Square Hugh M Woods (they always had hot teen chickysnax working the registers) 
CompUSA Ultimate Electronics (Colorado/Denver) Gart Brothers (Colorado/Denver) Jumbo Sports |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:03:29 PM EDT
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hechinger
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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:03:54 PM EDT
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Might be local....
Alpha Beta Gemco Mont Ward Smitty's Drug Emporium Thrifty's |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:06:36 PM EDT
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We used to go to the restaurant in the local Woolworth's all the time, they made an awesome Philly cheesesteak sandwich.
I also remember shopping at Gemco, Thrifty, and Sprouse Reitz. |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:06:43 PM EDT
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Horn & Hardart
Almart Braunstein's Gino's |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:06:50 PM EDT
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Kresges now Kmart
Had an old school lunch counter Two Guys Woolworths Bradleys Caldors |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:07:24 PM EDT
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Pioneer Chicken. Naugles Mexican food. Everyone else covered the stores.
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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:07:52 PM EDT
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Gambles
Yankees - may have been a regional thing. Absorbed by SS Kresge - later Kmart - now Sears - next bankrupt |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:08:12 PM EDT
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Duckwall's
A&W Root Beer drive-in. |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:08:21 PM EDT
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Rose's
Aug W. Smith |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:08:29 PM EDT
[#10]
Jones
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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:08:56 PM EDT
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The old time Army Navy surplus store.
Great Falls Sporting Goods. A wonderful place for a young man (child) to go spend time looking at all the animals of the walls. |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:09:11 PM EDT
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value house bricks of .22 $4.99 |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:11:30 PM EDT
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Super Duper - grocery
Gold Circle Rinks Service Merchandise Harts Lawsons Dog n Suds |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:12:29 PM EDT
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Jefferson Ward
Best Service Merchandise Willco Zayre Peaches Sound Warehouse Tropic Comics Comics USA Spritzles at the mall, have to see if any are left. gun stores are too many to name, Firearms Plus, Outdoor Outfitters Shooters Emporium Dixie Gun Range |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:12:42 PM EDT
[#15]
Fedco
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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:12:52 PM EDT
[#16]
Big B drug store
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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:14:34 PM EDT
[#17]
SkyCity
Winn-Dixie Tast-e-Freeze |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:17:53 PM EDT
[#18]
Woolworth
Gertz Gimbels |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:18:01 PM EDT
[#19]
Rose's, Wood's, & Pope's five-and-dime stores
Western Auto Stores. My first electric train (1949) came from one. Sinclair and Esso gas stations. Piggly-Wiggly grocery stores. Chicken-in-the-Rough restaurants |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:19:23 PM EDT
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You guys have hit most of them.
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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:21:09 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
Rose's, Wood's, & Pope's five-and-dime stores Western Auto Stores. My first electric train (1949) came from one. Sinclair and Esso gas stations. Piggly-Wiggly grocery stores. We still have a piggly wiggly not too far away, there was another very close that a tornado destroyed a few years ago that wasn't rebuilt. |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:21:54 PM EDT
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Hills
Woolworth Western Auto Service Merchandise Barely remember Wards. |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:22:05 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
hechinger I still have fasteners and hardware with Hechinger tags. Zantigos Gold circle Gd ritzys Children's palace |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:22:46 PM EDT
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Are there IGAs still around? Last one I know of near me closed recently.
Off to Google it. eta: Apparently they are still fairly common as a franchise. |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:23:20 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
The old time Army Navy surplus store. Great Falls Sporting Goods. A wonderful place for a young man (child) to go spend time looking at all the animals of the walls. This...There was one here called Kamey army store in-between Victoria and Port Lavaca. As a kid in the early 80s I could wonder around in there for hours. It was mostly WWII surplus, helmets stacked to the ceiling, M1 Garand cartridge belts in a huge bin, etc etc |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:23:55 PM EDT
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Circuit city. Anyone still have those?
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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:24:24 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
Are there IGAs still around? Last one I know of near me closed recently. Off to Google it. eta: Apparently they are still fairly common as a franchise. Tons of them up here in WI. |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:24:32 PM EDT
[#28]
Woolco
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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:25:02 PM EDT
[#29]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Circuit city. Anyone still have those? |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:25:50 PM EDT
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Lady Polly's
Miss Jennie's The Chicken Ranch House of Blue Lights Of course, they all only sold services, not products. |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:26:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Kresges now Kmart Had an old school lunch counter Two Guys Woolworths Bradleys Caldors Came here to post S.S. Kresges. Seems there are no more 'Five and Dime' stores they're all now dollar stores and family value stores. Inflation. |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:27:18 PM EDT
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Snyder's drugs
Showbiz pizza I'm not as old as you bastards. 
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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:27:54 PM EDT
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Rexall Drugs
A&P Dog'n'Suds hotdog and rootbeer joint. |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:29:41 PM EDT
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Heck's
LA Joes |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:30:33 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Rose's, Wood's, & Pope's five-and-dime stores Western Auto Stores. My first electric train (1949) came from one. Sinclair and Esso gas stations. Piggly-Wiggly grocery stores. Chicken-in-the-Rough restaurants Wow...I'd plumb forgotten about Chicken In the Rough. Somebody posted Dog & Suds, but there are a few still around. Stuckys. Lums. |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:31:14 PM EDT
[#36]
Still have a Gibsons around here, its great if you want to pay MSRP for guns/ammo and spend an hour wandering a dark store looking at random crap.
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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:31:47 PM EDT
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Farmer Jack's grocery store, became A&P, not even sure what became of A&P.
EtA: Bennigan's restaurants. Good riddance.
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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:33:03 PM EDT
[#38]
Around here in the 60s-70s there used to be
Bells Topps Goldblatts Big Gurnee Discount Montgomery Wards Ben Franklin 5&10 Wiebolt's and an old time True Value with big bins of nails and screws that you scooped into a bag with a metal scoop. |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:33:46 PM EDT
[#39]
Gemco
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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:33:57 PM EDT
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Coast to Coast
OTASCO. And guns just out on the shelves at both. |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:34:01 PM EDT
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Woolworths
Gold Circle Service Merchandise Harts Phar-Mor Media Play Incredible Universe Hechingers |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:34:05 PM EDT
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Western Auto.
When KFC was only sold in sit-down restaurants. "Mom & Pop" hardware stores. Tastee-Freeze. Chicken in the Rough. J.J. Newberrys. Rexall drug stores. |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:35:07 PM EDT
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Sterlings 5-10-15 cent store
Magic Mart Otasco |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:35:44 PM EDT
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Service Merchandise
Used to always eyeball the Marlin Camp Carbines in the catalog. |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:35:56 PM EDT
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Two Guys
Great Eastern Mills Western Auto WT Grants Ben Franklin 5 and 10 Acme |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:36:25 PM EDT
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Going way back?
A&P (where Mom bought all the family groceries when I was a boy). Great Scott (supermarket chain). Revco (drug store chain). Ben Franklin. E.J. Korvette. S.S. Kresge (became K-Mart). Montgomery Ward (we used to call it "Monkey Ward"). I also remember the original Hudson's store in Detroit. You know, back when people actually used to go there to shop without fear of being killed and eaten. |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:36:29 PM EDT
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Hecks
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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:37:26 PM EDT
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2 Guys
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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:38:32 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
Hills Woolworth Western Auto Service Merchandise Barely remember Wards. Hills grocery stores, I always tout that was a very regional small chain, northeast sc and southeast nc only maybe 5-6 stores? |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 4:38:50 PM EDT
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Emporium in San Francisco. They had a deactivated cable car on the rooftop.
Roos Atkins - department store closer to the Ferry Building than Emporium City of Paris - they had an atrium like area and during Christmas, a huge Xmas tree which was the biggest in the city. Get - used to be on Sloat Blvd. White Front - a discount department store Abercrombie & Fitch - they sold fly fishing equipment and had three gunsmiths Eddie Bauer - they sold guns too. |
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