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Posted: 3/29/2015 8:50:08 PM EDT
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Woolworth's
Smiths Smitty's ABCO Montgomery Ward |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 8:50:11 PM EDT
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Hills grocery stores, I always tout that was a very regional small chain, northeast sc and southeast nc only maybe 5-6 stores? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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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? nvm |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 8:52:13 PM EDT
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Stores come and go. So get bought by chains and become something different, less unique, more cookie-cutter. Some get buried by the big guys and can't compete.
There are two that I really miss, both in Aurora,Illinois. The Nock and Feather Archery shop. My friend and I, around 13 or 14, would get one of our Dads to drop us off on Saturday mornings and spend the day shooting in the indoor range and sucking up all the archery lore we could. The owner was just liike Fred Bear. I had (have) a Shakespeare Necedah 45# recurve and Mike had a 45# Bear Grizzly. The owner built our arrows and helped us out a lot. Perfect ambassador for his sport - getting the next generation into it. There were none of those faggoty bows with wheels and cams, and cables. Filip Music. Back in the 60's and 70's when I started playing guitar at 11 years old, Telecasters,Stratocasters, and Les Pauls from the 50's were just used guitars. None of us wanted those old things, so they just hung on the walls there. Last time I was in there, probably late 80's, I remember an area bigger than my living room filled with a hundred or more old Fender amps. Tweeds, Brownfaces, Blackfaces. Just a bunch of used amps with heartbreakingly low prices Now we call them vintage, and the prices are way up. Crap. I need a time machine. |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 8:52:56 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/29/2015 8:54:12 PM EDT
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Pomeroy's now BonTon
A&P Hill's Department Store Woolco ACME (supermarket) McCrory's (worked in one) |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 8:55:30 PM EDT
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Used to be a JC Penny down the street from us that you could mail order guns into, also used to have a Woolworth, Harts, Hardware store, etc etc in that little center, now its check cashing places and crap.
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Posted: 3/29/2015 8:56:25 PM EDT
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Pomeroy's now BonTon A&P Hill's Department Store Woolco ACME (supermarket) McCrory's (worked in one) I would have figured Bon-Ton was through, but google told me they were alive and kicking. |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 8:58:17 PM EDT
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Joske's
CompuAdd FedMart Sage Oshman's |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 8:59:42 PM EDT
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...When I moved here to PHX in 2003, I was surprised to find a few surviving Sinclair gas stations, complete with the old green brontosaurus sign. They're still here. Haven't seen an Esso station since I was a kid. "Put a tiger in your tank!" Any other Southerners here remember Sambos? I think ours disappeared in the late '70's while I was away in the Marines. IIRC, ESSO became Exxon Sambo's became the brunt of a PC attack because the race-baiters claimed Sambo was black. Actually, based on the original story, he was Indian. But you know how racist facts can be. |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 8:59:51 PM EDT
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Quality Farm and Fleet.
The wood floors in the woolworths were awesome. They had just the right amount of squeak to them |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 9:00:40 PM EDT
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Shakey's Pizza
Taco Bueno Grandy's Handy Dan Montgomery Ward Fotomat |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 9:01:43 PM EDT
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Remember walking into a mall and smelling cigarette smoke 25 years ago? Also, the little gold ashtrays at the tables in McDonald's and Burger King...
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Posted: 3/29/2015 9:05:26 PM EDT
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So Cal had a chain of audio stuff called Pacific Stereo. They had the special glassed in room where you could listen to vinyl records on the best stuff available. They had top of the line reel to reels and the needles for the record players......
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Posted: 3/29/2015 9:07:32 PM EDT
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Naugles Pioneer Chicken Pup N Taco Tasty Freeze Sambo's Treasury Gemco Woolworth Monkeywards |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 9:10:15 PM EDT
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Woolworth
Ben Franklin |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 9:13:55 PM EDT
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Sambos.
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Posted: 3/29/2015 9:15:34 PM EDT
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Record Bar
Turtle Records Towards the bottom of page 3 somebody nailed a few I was thinking of. Burger Chef Rax Hecks Do they still have Big Eagle grocery stores in Alabama? There is a former TG&Y/Coast to Coast Hardware building that still has the original signage and hasn't been touched since it shut down nearly thirty years ago in the little town I work in. |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 9:16:08 PM EDT
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Robert Hall Clothing
Rockbottom drug stores Someone say Bamberger's? |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 9:17:42 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. The SF Giants avatar will quote this one. Also Shopper's World AGE Steven Mathew David, tops of the hill, Daily City
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Posted: 3/29/2015 9:19:36 PM EDT
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Roy Rogers roast beef
Arthur Treacher's fish and Chips Brendle's Colonial grocery stores Food Town Park-n-Shop A discount department store called Atlantic Mills which had the only restroom marked "colored" that I ever saw. |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 9:22:30 PM EDT
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Maison Blanche department store on Canal Street in New Orleans with the wonderful Christmas displays in all the picture windows lit up at night featuring Mr. Bingle the Snowman. Everyone came to stand on the sidewalk with the family to see. Real Norman Rockwell stuff from a better time.
You'd probably get robbed, pickpocketed or shot standing on that site today at night. 
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Posted: 3/29/2015 9:31:14 PM EDT
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Shakey's Pizza Taco Bueno Grandy's Handy Dan Montgomery Ward Fotomat Alive and well in the Philippines. They sent me an email today to renew my SuperCard. As I won't be able to go home until next year, there isn't much point. They serve San Miguel draft, too.
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Posted: 3/29/2015 9:38:06 PM EDT
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Alive and well in the Philippines. They sent me an email today to renew my SuperCard. As I won't be able to go home until next year, there isn't much point. They serve San Miguel draft, too.Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Shakey's Pizza Taco Bueno Grandy's Handy Dan Montgomery Ward Fotomat Alive and well in the Philippines. They sent me an email today to renew my SuperCard. As I won't be able to go home until next year, there isn't much point. They serve San Miguel draft, too.lots of good times growing up and going to Shakey's, and in the service, coming in from a couple weeks or more in the field.. we'd hit up their all-you-can eat buffet and wipe 'em out 
Pizza Hut was okay... not too many sit-down franchises around anymore.. or that I've seen anyway. I know of one in Golden, CO.... but there is better Pizza to be found in Golden. |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 9:38:26 PM EDT
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Lots of good ones already listed. Some I remember:
CompUSA Murphy's Mart Jet- gas stations Colonial Store- groceries People's- drug stores Woolworth's Montgomery Wards Roses- still around? Circuit City Service Merchandise Leggett's- now Belk? Babbage's |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 9:42:55 PM EDT
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CMC Stereo. Allied and Lafayette Electronics.
Newberry's, sort of a Kresge's or Grants. They had a bulk cookies section. The cookies always looked so good in the store, but were always stale. |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 9:59:50 PM EDT
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Lots of good ones already listed. Some I remember: CompUSA Murphy's Mart Jet- gas stations Colonial Store- groceries People's- drug stores Woolworth's Montgomery Wards Roses- still around? pretty sure they are Circuit City Service Merchandise Leggett's- now Belk? Babbage's 
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Posted: 3/29/2015 10:01:02 PM EDT
[#27]
Woolworth
Western Auto King's |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 10:06:24 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The SF Giants avatar will quote this one. Also Shopper's World AGE Steven Mathew David, tops of the hill, Daily City Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: 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. The SF Giants avatar will quote this one. Also Shopper's World AGE Steven Mathew David, tops of the hill, Daily City  |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 10:08:56 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Record stores are still around if you look hard enough. The Half Price Book stores around here have a really good record selection. Also Disc Replays sell records. But independent record stores are still around,I can think of a few here in Chicago, and there's one in Indianapolis and one in Lafayette, IN. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: record stores heck, music stores Record stores are still around if you look hard enough. The Half Price Book stores around here have a really good record selection. Also Disc Replays sell records. But independent record stores are still around,I can think of a few here in Chicago, and there's one in Indianapolis and one in Lafayette, IN. i noticed you can still buy cd's at Best Buy and Target. The shelf space to cds gets smaller and smaller every year. Writing's on the wall for cds, they'll be like VHS tapes. Some new computers don't come with cd/dvd drives anymore. New cars have satelite, HD radio, and USB for tunes, or bluetooth to play from your ipod. That being said, the music cd came out in 1985 or 1986 think, 30 years ago, amazing they're still around at all! |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 10:14:58 PM EDT
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Kresge
Woolworth Woolco W.T. Grant A&P Lums (OK, it's a restaurant but those hot dogs steamed in beer were awesome) Lazarus Dept. Stores (it was on Ohio thing) Howard Johnsons (the fried clam dinner!!!) |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 10:16:03 PM EDT
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Lawsons convenience stores. Chip-chopped ham. "Big-O" orange juice. That awesome chip dip.
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Posted: 3/29/2015 10:18:00 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. Now they just sell homoerotic lifestyles
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Posted: 3/29/2015 10:20:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Hills Woolworth Western Auto Service Merchandise Barely remember Wards. These are the ones I came to post. Maybe add Circuit City. |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 10:21:32 PM EDT
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If you lived in CA in the 80's you probably remember Federated stores with those hilariously weird TV commercials featuring "Fred Rated" (Shadoe Stevens).
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Posted: 3/29/2015 10:26:41 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 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. Gordonsville still has one. |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 10:27:59 PM EDT
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I can still remember Fred Bickle. He was the milkman who delivered milk and dairy products straight to my parent's front door in the early 60's. (Borden's)
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Posted: 3/29/2015 10:32:31 PM EDT
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When McDonalds looked like this:
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Posted: 3/29/2015 10:34:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryYeah, we had one in our town. I loved that place when I was a kid. |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 10:34:47 PM EDT
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Eckerd's. For those who don't know, it was like CVS or Wal-Greens.
My daughter still rolls her eyes when I say we are going to stop at Eckerd's. To me, it's generic for a drugstore. It's like calling a kleenex a kleenex, even if it's made by someone else. |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 10:35:05 PM EDT
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Longs Drugs
Ben Franklin (had tv tube testers) Handyman |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 10:35:57 PM EDT
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Longs Drugs Ben Franklin (had tv tube testers) Handyman yeah, remember that place.. I think my dad got reloading stuff there. |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 10:38:42 PM EDT
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Heck's
TG&Y Taco Tico Howard's Spur |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 10:49:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: When McDonalds looked like this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/McDonalds_Museum.jpg Lewiston, Idaho:  |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 10:51:38 PM EDT
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Sambo's  My cousin was a chef cook at Sambo's.
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Posted: 3/29/2015 10:54:59 PM EDT
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FAO Schwartz in San Francisco. Had to be just about the coolest toy store ever! I remember their store and their catalog. Their original location was near the Stockton St. Tunnel. Methinks on Grant. Re: Tower Records, they were caught selling records that were returned. Apparently that was a store policy and they were busted by the SF DA's office several times. |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 10:55:41 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Arctic Circle (fast food) A&W Drive In with the food tray hung on the car window Ben Franklin's 5 and dime Montgomery Ward. saved up my paper route money and bought my first down sleeping bag there for back packing. Firestone store. Not just tires. Like a hardware store mainly. Bought a bicycle there. Coast to Coast Store-hardware store-bought my first firearm there when I was 18 YO. Marlin Model 60 Rexall Drug Sears Farm Store-next to a railroad spur from the days when you could buy a pre-fab house kit and other large stuff (so I was told) Western Auto Pay-N-Save (drug store) Pay-N-Pak (Became Thurman's Supply) regional in the NW. Like a mini Home Depot Now I feel old. I live in one. 1914. They went until the 50s or so. |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 10:58:47 PM EDT
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Jewel-T
The Ground Round Farrell's Clover Veem and Krass Brothers - both on South Street in Philly Crazy Eddie's Unclaimed Freight |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 11:00:56 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Stores come and go. So get bought by chains and become something different, less unique, more cookie-cutter. Some get buried by the big guys and can't compete. There are two that I really miss, both in Aurora,Illinois. The Nock and Feather Archery shop. My friend and I, around 13 or 14, would get one of our Dads to drop us off on Saturday mornings and spend the day shooting in the indoor range and sucking up all the archery lore we could. The owner was just liike Fred Bear. I had (have) a Shakespeare Necedah 45# recurve and Mike had a 45# Bear Grizzly. The owner built our arrows and helped us out a lot. Perfect ambassador for his sport - getting the next generation into it. There were none of those faggoty bows with wheels and cams, and cables. Filip Music. Back in the 60's and 70's when I started playing guitar at 11 years old, Telecasters,Stratocasters, and Les Pauls from the 50's were just used guitars. None of us wanted those old things, so they just hung on the walls there. Last time I was in there, probably late 80's, I remember an area bigger than my living room filled with a hundred or more old Fender amps. Tweeds, Brownfaces, Blackfaces. Just a bunch of used amps with heartbreakingly low prices Now we call them vintage, and the prices are way up. Crap. I need a time machine. |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 11:01:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginall3y Posted By Timco:
Longs Drugs-Still here in Hawaii but quickly becoming a CVS in everything except name. Ben Franklin (had tv tube testers) Handyman |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 11:02:51 PM EDT
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Roy Rogers roast beef Arthur Treacher's fish and Chips Brendle's Colonial grocery stores Food Town Park-n-Shop A discount department store called Atlantic Mills which had the only restroom marked "colored" that I ever saw. The top two still exist. |
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