20 Famous Stores From The 1980s, That No Longer Exist!

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20 Famous Stores From The 1980s, That No Longer Exist!
In this nostalgic video, we reminisce about 20 iconic stores from the 1980s that have vanished from the American retail landscape. From department stores to specialty shops, we explore the once-thriving businesses that are now just memories. Join us as we take a trip down memory lane and uncover the stories behind these lost treasures of the past.
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@rebels42wynn83 12 дней назад

I am a GENERATION-XER at 53 and watching these videos take me back to a decade I wish I could back to.

@PHBRNTGGR2 11 дней назад

Same here. 😭

@Johnnyfountaineyes 6 дней назад

Jesus 🤦‍♂️ why because you could treat those different folks anyway you wanted and no pesky social media to hold boomers accountable 🤫🫠🤭

@Joreel 41 минуту назад

I remember more than half of these stores from my teen years all the way through college and beyond. So many good memories of these places.

@prowlertf34 22 дня назад

I miss the old America.

@jeremyhodge6216 17 дней назад

Same here when life was simple 😔

@mirzaahmed6589 16 дней назад

I don't. Everything seemed to revolve around materialism and crass consumerism.

@sikerslalatm3147 14 дней назад

@@mirzaahmed6589 exactly

@ronaldcroci5498 14 дней назад

Back in the day when people had, that thing called, morals!

@ashe1928 13 дней назад

You can blame Clintons,Obama,Biden and Bush's

@alicelong8028 14 дней назад

Ill be 61 in june, God I miss the old days. But im thankful that im not growing up now.

@starmnsixty1209 12 дней назад

So am I.

@shannonnichols3415 15 часов назад

Amen! Same here! But we have a huge problem…our kids/grandkids, etc. don’t care about anything! It’s like they’ve given up! We have to give them a reason to care. They see how great life was for us and they don’t care about anything now like we did then! Pray 🙏 they get a new lease on life!

@douglasgriffiths3534 20 дней назад

I still have my old Blockbuster rental card. I got it in 1985. It's in a picture frame now. (Jan Griffiths).

@perry92964 12 дней назад

so do i, i didnt save it on purpose i just happend to get anew wallet and all of my cards and things didnt fit

@toriless 21 час назад

Actually I have two.

@kranwa15 25 дней назад

1:01 Hollywood Video 2:25 Kay Bee Toys 3:48 Radio Shack 5:20 Babbage’s 6:16 Peaches Records & Tapes 7:37 Venture Stores 9:11 Blockbuster Video 10:19 Tower Records 11:35 Toys R Us 13:05 Sharper Image 14:38 Circuit City 16:08 CompUSA 17:34 Borders Books 19:07 Walden Books 20:16 Sam Goody 21:49 Caldor 23:18 Abraham & Straus 24:18 Lionel Kiddie City 26:01 Woolworth’s 27:10 Egghead Software

@CulturalProspect 14 дней назад

Venture(s) , Baggages. My greatness, these scream Midwest.😚

@tr1bes 12 дней назад

Sears. Kmart, Service Merchandise. Safeway (not sure if this is regional though) Grandy fast food Music Boutique

@aggie7756 4 дня назад

@@tr1besSafeway is still around. I patronized the Estes Park location in Colorado...couple years ago.

@Abner_Devereaux_Jr День назад

Zayre

@Crusader1815 14 дней назад

We are all poorer without these public common spaces. I remember when the Sears was a 2 story department store downtown. Then it was in the mall. Then gone.

@petenielsen6683 8 дней назад

Dey Brothers was at one end of the mall and Sears at the other with my area having its own regional chain Whitherill's.

@SachelleCambria 26 дней назад

Those were the good old days.

@LKVince11 28 дней назад

Im old in my 50s and so grateful to have been young at this time.

@josebro352 18 дней назад

You think 50s are old?? They're middle aged to me. 80s and 90 is old. Harrison Ford is in his mid 70s and he's still making films.

@mirzaahmed6589 16 дней назад

Now imagine if your parents were poor and you could not afford any of the toys at Kaybee's or Kiddie City.

@CulturalProspect 14 дней назад

Same, I'm 45. It's nice but kind of sad.

@frednugent2310 13 дней назад

@@mirzaahmed6589I've been there. I used to go door to door in 1984 asking to cut grass for $10.00 a yard. I earned my own money for KAY Bee toys.

@frednugent2310 13 дней назад

@@josebro352Harrison Ford has had an easy life too. I'm 52 and broke my back getting my way through life.

@PHBRNTGGR2 11 дней назад

“I don’t wanna grow up cuz I’m a toys r us kid…” 😭 Borders closing broke my heart…I loved that place. 💕🥰😭

@vylet2292 День назад

🎶 There's a million toys at toys r us that I can play with! 🎵

@toriless 20 часов назад

Never went there like 65% of them. Here we had Tower Records instead until 2006 and 2 were STILL around in Seattle as of 2015.

@marianavarro3111 12 дней назад

I miss Kmart and Toys R US always had great service 🤩

@georgiafloyd1079 8 дней назад

Yes service is not like it used to be

@petenielsen6683 8 дней назад

You're welcome. I was a chairman's award winner when I worked at Kmart store number 4143.

@timpowell8689 6 дней назад

Always loved the blue light special at Kmart

@francescosilvestri6709 12 дней назад

There is one last remaining Woolworth's in Bakersfield, California. The new owners are restoring the historical building and keeping the Woolworth lunch counter. The previous owners also had the iconic lunch counter and a two story antique store. Although the store does not offer the original concept, it's great to see part of the store's history preserved.

@MissysMiniverse 13 дней назад

I can’t believe time is passing by so fast, I wish they still have stores like these again in the future 😢

@lindah6954 26 дней назад

I loved my Realistic stereo from Radio Shack. 2 cassette tape decks, phonograph, and 2 12" speakers.

@tommurphy4307 14 дней назад

and a battery on your birthday- even a 9-volt if you want- we were the Kings

@sgssgssgs 6 дней назад

Realistic audio equipment, and Optimus speakers, were pretty high quality back in the 70s. Mine had real walnut veneer.

@Joreel 38 минут назад

Bought my first TRS 80 at Radio Shack and a Commodore 64 a few years later there.

@lindah6954 26 дней назад

Circuit City. I loved that store. They ran circles around the BestBuy. Computer wise, they knew what they were selling you.

@christopherhunt147 25 дней назад

Not the one in my home town. The people who worked there clueless, rude, and well.. just not suited to be in retail. Went there twice and laughed when they shut down.

@csj9619 12 дней назад

MTX Thunder 4000 subwoofers, buy one, get one free at Circuit City. I took this deal twice. Hard to beat two 12" subs for a hunnerd bucks!

@ethiobeat360 29 дней назад

Missed picking up Friday movies on VHS at Blockbuster

@mikeklinger1712 17 дней назад

I miss buying movies really cheap when the extra new releases weren't so new!

@garyb8186 15 дней назад

I was looking in my closet found VCR still in the box not opened.

@mariusbabii 15 дней назад

now i go and pick up my vhs tapes at goodwill only 25 cents each,.......marius(punk rules).

@RalphHoof 12 дней назад

Yup. That's how it worked. Friday night after work I would get tapes. The location I went had a special where you could get 5 tapes for like $20 or some thing like that. The family didn't always watch all of them, but it was fun to have a selection.

@starmnsixty1209 12 дней назад

@@garyb8186✅✅✅

@ZoruaZorroark 22 дня назад

these stores as well as others were apart of many of our childhoods

@rolandburket1262 21 день назад

I miss radio shack

@shawnkelly695 13 дней назад

Should have supported them more

@starmnsixty1209 12 дней назад

@@shawnkelly695Put in for a personality transplant, please.

@bloominflowers6766 10 дней назад

@@shawnkelly695 AMAZON !

@mikejejenich-pb5zx 29 дней назад

Anyone who didn’t grow up in the 80s. You missed out. ✅

@landonbenford8369 20 дней назад

You Sure DID!!!😎The BEST Damn job I ever had was working at Bridgeport Video in high school. Met my first girlfriend there and everything!!!🤓🤓

@DavidSkeen-lf6kt 13 дней назад

So you met the love of your life there

@landonbenford8369 12 дней назад

@@DavidSkeen-lf6kt No. Her old man was Old School Mexican and he didn't care for a black guy dating his daughter. We broke up and became friends. I wound up rapping to two of her g'friends, though. Not for revenge. It just happened.😎🤓

@GCJACK83 29 дней назад

A lot of these store chains were destroyed by the advents of digital media, smartphones, online shopping, and further compounded through the bad business decisions of their own shareholders, CEOs, and executives. One good example of the bad business decisions aspect would be Blockbuster Video. Blockbuster had a ground floor opportunity to buy Netflix and they refused, thinking that digital video and video game distribution would be just a fad that faded away eventually instead of the evolution of content distribution with staying power it turned out to be.

@mirzaahmed6589 16 дней назад

We have the benefit of hindsight. At the time it was not at all obvious that online video would take over.

@vegasblt 28 дней назад

Where is Sears and Montgomery Wards? Boy I miss them

@marydavis5234 27 дней назад

Sears and Montgomery physical stores are closed, they sell online only now.

@georgeharris6851 27 дней назад

Sears closed down their catalog sales about a year before Amazon was founded. Imagine if they had gone online instead of shutting it down.

@marydavis5234 27 дней назад

@@georgeharris6851 Sears does have an online websites, I get at least 10 emails from Sears every week.

@audiophileman7047 23 дня назад

Yes, and K-Mart is gone too.

@kennethscalir3092 18 дней назад

Sears still has over a dozen locations in the USA. I live near a nonclosing Sears in Burbank, California

@allemander 25 дней назад

Rich’s, Richway, Sunshine Dept. Store, Lionel Play World, Camelot Music, Mervyn’s, Big Lots, Service Merchandise, Turtles Records & Tapes Tandy Leather Co. Sears & Roebuck, Kmart

@landonbenford8369 20 дней назад

Sears made a BIG MISTAKE when they bought Kmart! It sure seemed like a good idea at the time. We all know now that Kmart was beyond repair when Sears got to them. And among many other things, Sears exec's thought that internet shopping was going to be a passing fad and frankly so did I. Sears didn't adapt and we all know how this is going to end!😭😭😭

@CulturalProspect 14 дней назад

Wow I forgot about Tandy leather and, Camelot Music.

@wellIdiditagain 12 дней назад

I gotta you can still buy stuff from Kmart online. Who knows it may ride from the she's just like Target did. Also Big Lord is still around, you just have to get to the right area.

@PHBRNTGGR2 11 дней назад

I miss Mervyns so much. That was my favourite store ever.😭 We still have big lots and radio shack.

@BucketMouthFishing23 5 дней назад

Big Lots still open in Louisiana

@user-zx8de8op9l 20 дней назад

Well done, We had Shook, Goldblatt's Weiboldt's, Service Merchandise, among others now just a memory.

@FigaroHey 14 дней назад

Service Merchandise! Decades since I heard or thought of that!

@MannyA69247 13 дней назад

My favorite stores from the past were Waldenbooks and Warehouse Music.

@FigaroHey 14 дней назад

Who remembers Blue Chip stamps and the other trading stamps, the green ones? You got the stamps at various retailers and stuck them into books and then redeemed the books of stamps for small appliances and such. I can't actually remember where you got your goods... I think there was a catalog, not a brick and mortar location to redeem the stamps.

@starmnsixty1209 12 дней назад

I remember my Mom using the S & H Green Stamps, and another one it seems that used yellow stamps.

@kathrynmauro8673 12 дней назад

We had a Blue Chip stamp store on the east side of town. It was exciting to have saved enough and the family got in the car and drove to the store, turned in our books, and brought home our items. We got our first color TV with blue chip stamps. It was a wood console TV.

@petenielsen6683 8 дней назад

@@starmnsixty1209 When my parents were preparing to sell their house we found a box full of them they thought had been thrown out a long time ago!

@BillMarquez-uw6eh 7 дней назад

I remember blue chip stamps!!!!my late mom got a lot of things from them!!!!

@BillMarquez-uw6eh 7 дней назад

They had brick and mortar redemption centers

@davidhollingsworth1847 13 дней назад

I remember Two Guys quite fondly (and of course Radio Shack, Montgomery Grant, Alexander's, Woolworth, and others).

@PHBRNTGGR2 11 дней назад

I’m taking a moment of silence to mourn Mervyns. Who am I kidding? I’ve been mourning them for 15 years. 😩😭. BEST store ever.

@billyoung8118 18 дней назад

Sears? K-Mart? Montgomery Wards?

@ElizabethRodriguez-lj7ys 27 дней назад

Alll these stores bring back so many memories I used to shop at circuit city

@georgeharris6851 27 дней назад

I got my first DVD player at CC. It was actually a DIVX player that could play both formats.

@froufroufeatherstone6291 26 дней назад

If you could find a parking space!

@FaithJourneyMinistries 26 дней назад

I remember going to blockbuster Friday or Saturday when I was younger with my sister and dad. Those were the days. I used to work at Toys R us when I was in high school or college (90's).

@josephcooter5763 29 дней назад

I sometimes think Footlocker should pay homage to it's roots by opening a lunch counter. For those of you who don't know. Footlocker is the last remnants of FW Woolworths.

@GCJACK83 29 дней назад

Might be a good idea to return to the company roots in that way.

@petenielsen6683 8 дней назад

Actually they are technically the remnants of a Woolworth's spin off or one that Woolworth's had bought out - a drug store if I remember correctly.

@matoschristopher 4 дня назад

Gen xer here. Love all the old stores we had many good memories. Going shopping use to be an adventure.

@josephcooter5763 29 дней назад

Here is the thing. I grew up in the Eighties and I honestly don't remember Peaches Records and Tapes. I've heard of Tower Records but not Peaches Records and TApes.

@zodszoo 29 дней назад

Same. I wonder what general location they were

@armourcoin 29 дней назад

I do remember Peaches Records. We would visit their location in Orlando every year on vacation. I even purchased a cassette tape holder with their emblem on it. I still have it! This would have been the early 1980’s.

@TennantMary 29 дней назад

Me too. I think most are west coast stuff.

@TennantMary 29 дней назад

Netflix took blockbuster out 😊

@OkieTLB 27 дней назад

There was one in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I was born and raised in Ponca City. Mom would take my older sister and me to Tulsa twice a year to shop for fall/winter clothes and then spring/summer clothes. All my sister cared about was going to Peaches for the latest releases. I always looked forward to having dinner at Casa Bonita before we drove back home. 😊

@xaulted1 27 дней назад

The vast majority of these all meet one of two ends. A) "but then the digital age..." or B) "but then 2008..."

@georgiafloyd1079 8 дней назад

The digital time has ruined the world.

@ahotdj07 27 дней назад

I remember growing up and my parents shopping at Caldor, Bradlees, and K-Mart. I also would buy my vinyl at Tower Records when I lived in Boston and Dallas.

@mmc3731 14 дней назад

Please make a part 2 - more defunct businesses to add - Mervyn’s, Bed Bath & Beyond, Sears, KMart, Sharper Image, Big Lots, Fry’s, A&W, Carl’s Jr., Kenny Roger’s Roasters, Rite Aid

@pattibennett8774 13 дней назад

I just bought a couple sets of glasses at a Big Lots.

@starmnsixty1209 12 дней назад

@@pattibennett8774As I pointed out to someone else, no doubt a number of privately owned examples of various still exist here and there, which continue using the name. It does not mean in any way the chains themselves still exist. It's a big difference people.

@wellIdiditagain 12 дней назад

Big Lots still exist in Kansas

@WaTanooki 12 дней назад

Carl's Jr and Rite Aid are still around

@petenielsen6683 8 дней назад

Big Lots as a corporate entity is still in business as is Rite Aid, but both are struggling. And A&W is somewhat making a comeback in some places.

@xitsmedianax 24 дня назад

Hollywood Video was all over. I lived next to one in Rhode Island. Spent almost every weekend there to rent the hottest movies that hit the shelves. I still could remember the glossy floors by the registers, long lines, lights, candy and popcorn for sale and empty DVD/Blu-ray cases if u didn't get there in time to rent the movie 😂 Nostalgia and I miss it! Radio Shack was my dad's store. I rem he used to drag me there all the time!

@JamesWilliams-jj6su 20 дней назад

Hats off for your dad. I miss radio shack..it had every electronic gismo to build with ...kids these days play with their phones...no imagination... damn listen to me I sound old😂 in 47

@stephintheatre6335 4 дня назад

In Canada it was Rogers video it was everywhere

@Ncflyer79 8 дней назад

This makes me want to go back in time so bad. Such a better time to be alive and appreciative more. Proves how the internet and social media has ruined society

@PS_testing321... 17 дней назад

My school had 4 TRS 80 Radio Shack computers and only honors students could take the class. we learned BASIC. I will never forget IF THEN.

@allsmiles2938 21 день назад

I remember Hill's and Ames too!

@bobwreck3775 18 дней назад

Hills has the hits, LP's or cassettes, Hills.

@bunnybubs757 14 дней назад

Gold Circle

@RalphHoof 12 дней назад

Ames brings back memories. It was basically another Kmart, but they weren't able to adjust to the times and Walmart and Target took over. I've read that Ames is trying to make a comeback. Maybe it will work for them as they have name recognition.

@petenielsen6683 8 дней назад

@@RalphHoof A few business reporters have tried to contact people familiar with Ames but were unable to confirm they are trying to make a comeback. But they were not able to confirm they were not either!

@RalphHoof 8 дней назад

@@petenielsen6683 It will be interesting to see what happens. It seems the only way for Ames to make it would be to have the very large stores like Walmart has.

@Mart9 25 дней назад

I’m tired of hearing online shopping killing these stores. I miss a lot of these stores.

@postersm7141 17 дней назад

My wife is younger than me and she always shops online. I’m old-school I like brick and mortar.

@mirzaahmed6589 16 дней назад

Well, too bad. Most people prefer online shopping. And most younger people prefer paying for experiences rather than physical goods.

@jacobdiekhuis102 23 дня назад

There is still one blockbuster in Oregon

@kle2217 13 дней назад

Perhaps Walmart & Costco will one day be shown in one of these videos.

@starmnsixty1209 12 дней назад

Quite possibly. Walmart isn't half the chain it once was as far as quality, and prices go.

@user-kw2yq9nm9u День назад

I hope not Costco, brilliant store that treats employees far better than most. Walmart couldn't care less.

@the80slivehere 12 дней назад

Please do another one. There are so many awesome lost stores from the 1980s. It used to be kind of an event. - Heather

@emmajohnson6955 19 дней назад

Sad miss all of them

@cowboydiecastracing 27 дней назад

Great Video! I so miss the stores of the 80’s!

@MagnumMike44 29 дней назад

Malls will also be a thing of the past.

@notsogood9449 12 дней назад

Do any of you guys remember Service Merchandise?

@BillMarquez-uw6eh 7 дней назад

Yes I bought a few things from service ours was on Vincent ave in west Covina CA

@davidschmude 29 дней назад

I still wait by the phone on my birthday waiting for a call from Geoffrey Giraffe. The call never comes …… 😢

@MattyIcecubes 8 дней назад

The only brick and mortar retail establishments I still see people patronizing are grocery stores. Perishable items are the only items left that people don't get shipped to them, unless they're being shopped and delivered by a third party.

@user-kw2yq9nm9u День назад

Add to that, in the same vein, restaurants and bars. I live in dying burb of a major city and there isn't a single bookstore in my area. The closest is 25 miles away. There are food deserts but I've found there are also cultural deserts.

@MattyIcecubes День назад

@@user-kw2yq9nm9u Those are service establishments. Of course we will always have service establishments. People like eating out and having places to congregate and socialize.

@grazz7865 16 дней назад

The shopping experience is totally different now. I remember When I was a kid, mom would get “car fare” (bus fare) ready (50 cents or whatever it was😂) drag us onto the bus for a one hour ride to Roosevelt field. I would go “time out” which was the game room. All the game rooms are gone now, although they are starting to slowly reappear in some places. But this was back when dad went to work and most women stayed home to care for the family. Those days are LONG gone. Everyone has to work now just to make it month to month. A house in 1972 was an average of $25,000 and the average salary was $10,000. Fast forward to today?! Average salary is $75,000 and the average house is a million dollars!

@navret1707 18 дней назад

I really miss Radio Shack. I did my Masters thesis on a Color Computer and Word Star on a cassette tape player with a dot matrix printer. Yes, I am that old. I never heard of Peaches or Ventures.

@pattibennett8774 13 дней назад

I was trying to buy a resistor for a breadboard at Radio Shack. They wanted to charge me $10.00 for 1. I bought a bag of 100 for the same price including shipping on line. Every RC toy I bought for my son at Radio Shack failed within a couple weeks. The only thing I still have from Radio Shack is the TV antenna that is still up on my roof, it's useless but not because it was defective. I just never climbed up there and took it down. I'm afraid of heights.

@mistermusic140 11 дней назад

My sister was a manager at Venture for 20+ years in Schaumburg, Illinois. When my sister's store was closing she let my rock band play a concert in the store during it's final days while shoppers were cleaning out the remaining inventory.

@douglasgriffiths3534 20 дней назад

I used to hang out at Tower Records back then. I got lots of stuff when they closed for good. They were practically giving merch away. (Jan Griffiths).

@greggcollins4215 18 дней назад

They missed Duckwalls/Alco, Gambles, Otasco, Western Auto among others.

@mirzaahmed6589 16 дней назад

Those aren't famous.

@greggcollins4215 13 дней назад

@@mirzaahmed6589 More so thansome of the ones listed depending on where you live. Some of those were regional chains not national. I could also mention Innes Dept store, TG&Y or Scaggs.

@petenielsen6683 8 дней назад

Western Auto did not go out of business. It changed its name to Advanced Auto Parts.

@Itsa.CruelWorld 10 дней назад

*I'm 1991. I remember:* *Hollywood video* - had one right around the corner of where I lived *K.B. Toys* - I liked it but my heart lays with Toy's R Us. *Radio Shack* - Oh, the _nostalgia_ with this one! *Block Buster* - Iconic *Circuit City* - I don't think I've ever been in one.

@wallykramer7566 20 дней назад

It amazes me that I have heard of only about half of these stores! Probably a result of not hanging out on the east coast or midwest. I had presumed that all the major chains were well distributed. The only oddball was Sam Goody that had sort of an appearance at one store (Lloyd Center) in Portland but vanished in a year or two later.

@tripjet999 28 дней назад

We still have a local Blockbuster and Radio Shack store...so much for this video.

@facely 26 дней назад

You live in Bend, OR? I think your Radio Shack closed.

@one7decimal2eight 25 дней назад

Look at you, just like a pizza cutter. All edge, no point.

@davidkraus5765 24 дня назад

There is a Radio Shack in Fort Myers Florida

@facely 23 дня назад

@@davidkraus5765 But there's only one Blockbuster left. It's famous for being the only Blockbuster.

@garyb8186 20 дней назад

@@facely You can order Radio Shack online.

@calebwilliams7659 9 дней назад

The Sharper Image, selling things you don't need at prices you couldn't afford. What an ingenious business model. I think exactly 0.00001% of Americans were surprised they went out of business.

@user-kw2yq9nm9u День назад

Agree, that place was a huge scam.

@bigloaded8324 11 дней назад

Man, I miss Radio Shack. Always had what I was looking for.

@QueenLeeMi79 29 дней назад

Im an 80's baby too and I remember alot of these stores here in michigan.

@monkeymonkey8526 11 дней назад

Dang. I still miss Tower Records, Hollywood and Blockbuster Video, Border's Books, Sharper Image and most of all, Toys R Us. I remember as a kid, getting the Toys R US "Big Book of Toys" in the mail every Christmas and my brother and I going thru and circling everything we wanted. Then, years later, buying my own children's gifts there. So many fond memories ❤❤

@w1975b 20 дней назад

There are still open Radio Shack stores in Arkansas.

@lindah6954 26 дней назад

You missed K-Mart.

@Nighthawk-8050 8 дней назад

I'm almost 63. "WOW i miss those days"

@shadowgb 23 дня назад

Circuit city and toys r Us are still around in Canada. I'm surprised fedco didn't make this list.

@estellacoggins715 26 дней назад

I shopped at all these except no Venture or Peaches in Dallas, Tx.

@CulturalProspect 14 дней назад

Venture was like Target. It was Kmart and, Venture instead of Walmart and, Target. As I type this they say the 2 are affiliated. Ironic timing.😁

@csj9619 12 дней назад

Anyone remember a discount store called Zayre? There was one here in Sarasota, Florida where Office Depot now resides.

@nkuhlman677 9 дней назад

Zayre Shopper City

@user-fy5fm5so1g 29 дней назад

Oh I miss Blockbuster.🎉🎉🎉

@xxxxxx-tq4mw 17 дней назад

Zayre’s was my favorite discount store over K-Mart, etc.

@CulturalProspect 14 дней назад

That explains why Kmart always had great jewelry. My young aunt would buy a lot of stuff over the years.

@FigaroHey 14 дней назад

White Front? Levitz Furniture? Cost Plus Imports? Were those only local to me in San Leandro, California? My mother bought all sewing supplies at Fabric Lane. I don't live in the US anymore and can't remember if it was a chain or not.

@Richard17xx 22 дня назад

Shopping ain't what it used to be!! 😞

@grazz7865 17 дней назад

Exactly. EVERY SINGLE pair of shoes I ever bought online went back!

@mirzaahmed6589 16 дней назад

Good. It used to be a hellish experience.

@nuadasilverpaw5702 3 часа назад

For Peaches, there must have been another reason for closing. CDs didn't start being sold until 1982, the first way to download/stream music didn't happen until 1999 with Napster and the first legal downloadable music didn't happen until 2001 with the original iTunes.

@JLAvey 21 день назад

I don't miss magnetic tape as a form of storing media. I do miss having several different video/computer game stores that had their own personalities.

@michaelmartin2276 11 дней назад

I was a manager with K-B toys in the 1980's. It was a good place to work and i enjoyed it. The whole Mall experience was fantastic and it's sad its mostly all gone. Cinnabun is another one I miss. Coming in to work early and getting one hot was a almost daily routine ! ( I was sorta sweet on a girl that worked there) .

@jaywest885 22 дня назад

Hate to break it to you, but Toys R Us is still open. We have several of them in the Phoenix AZ area along with some Baby's R Us stores. They are pretty run down and don't get a lot of traffic, But they're still here.

@petenielsen6683 8 дней назад

Sometimes local stores can continue in business under the same name. But as a corporation it is Toys Were Us now.

@TheJackleOfWallStreet 29 дней назад

I was born in 1996 and I remember getting my first RC Car at radioshack

@receilseymour7930 13 дней назад

I'm sorry. I must have missed it, but was MONTGOMERY WARDS listed ?? It was a MAJOR retail store !

@marcelobravo4270 29 дней назад

There's three things you can't avoid in the states : water damage , IRS and bankruptcy ...

@johnmorgan4405 12 дней назад

I remember when Netflix switched to online and thinking, "This will never catch on...." And my Friday night routine was to go to the local Blockbuster and pick out movies to watch over the weekend. I was in there so much the cashier would put aside copies of new movies for me. Now people don't even know how to have a conversation. Sad.

@RetroReprise 24 дня назад

I worked for both Sam Goody and Blockbuster. I think I might be old.

@fluttershyamy 29 дней назад

I remember kay- bee toy store radio shack and toys r us 👍

@loringbush1455 11 дней назад

Yes I miss the Gallery of sound and yes I still have all of my cassette tapes and cds!

@laurier3405 19 дней назад

I remember Big N and Woolworths And i think there was Grants too

@grazz7865 17 дней назад

Grants is going way back. A little before my time. I think that was 60s. I grew up with Alexander’s, Woolworths, A&S, Korvettes, Two Guys 😂

@CarolAnnePeskin 13 дней назад

In East Los Angeles/Commerce (CA) in the 1960s, there was a new-to-the-neighborhood big warehouse store called White Front on Olympic Blvd. I believe it was a precursor to the old Price Club & today's Costco & Sam's Club (Sam Walden of Walmart's copycat version of worldwide/global membership shopping).

@jamesmcdonald5868 3 дня назад

Blockbuster has one store, and they aren't gone. Soon you will be able to stream movies, series and shows with them again and talks to brick and mortars

@patcurrie9888 27 дней назад

A & S! The stores looked so elegant in those shots. No wonder I won Best Dressed in elementary school a lot.

@philipfisher1700 24 дня назад

I worked for KB toy store in CT back in the late 80s to early 90s.

@acesmith8623 20 часов назад

Good old days. People look peaceful and happy that you do not see in nowadays.

@AllenHansford-xz3mv 14 дней назад

I miss those stores 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

@user-tg9ok3zx7b 13 дней назад

What about Sears? They had a catalog for almost 100 years. I guess they thought this Internet thing is just a fad.

@marcielynn4886 25 дней назад

I remember Tandy Co. for leather making kits.

@gmwcfhg 29 дней назад

Toys R Us is making a comeback, appearing in Macy's Department stores in the past couple years

@grazz7865 17 дней назад

Is it actually toys R Us? Or just Macys buying the name to replace thier once beautiful Santa land that I loved so much as a kid!

@bloominflowers6766 10 дней назад

RADIO SHACK was The Best store.

@magnusschveing2409 День назад

45 years old and I worked at both Hollywood video and Kay Bee toys.😅

@ASMR-Arboretum 29 дней назад

"Rewinding taps was an art form." Who writes this? Did you actually ever rewind a tape? You put it in and pushed the rewind button. I've been able to rewind my own tape since I was like 4, and my parents would rent me CareBears tapes on Bata. It's not an art form. It's a button.

@kman8820 25 дней назад

Relax !!! WTF

@allemander 25 дней назад

*tapes

@nickgoldring1446 23 дня назад

ASMR-... Ahem... It's not Bata. It's [obviously a typo, yr welcome].

@grazz7865 17 дней назад

Problem was some people didn’t rewind and if the store didn’t check it; the next person started the movie on the ending credits 😂. It wasn’t such a chore. Just press rewind and walk away. It stopped automatically. 😂. Some of the later VCRs automatically rewinded when the tape reached the end.

@grazz7865 17 дней назад

About a year ago, I was at a bus stop and these school kids were playing an old song on thier phone. It brought back memories and I said “I had this song on tape”. They looked at me and said “what’s a tape?” 😂😂😂. Wow! Am I that ancient 😂😂😂

@davinp 28 дней назад

In the 1980s Radio Shack started selling Radio Shank Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer

@christopherhunt147 25 дней назад

Ah yes.. TRS-80. My first computer. The memories. I so miss the 80s!

@julieritchie9809 6 дней назад

I remember taking my boy’s to KB when they were little

@rknine7998 5 дней назад

Life was so much easier and people were more real back in the '90s.

@davidburke9596 24 дня назад

At Radio Shack : Customer - I just have this one item I'm buying for 1 dollar. Cashier - just need your name , address, phone # , E-mail address , ..... Customer - Never Mind !

@betunia98 2 дня назад

Some of these companies, especially KB toys, and Toys “R” Us did not need to perish. They were Paris by hedge fund company. She broke it apart and sold it. Some of them also have bad management and put them easily adapted