Al Czervik Posted November 25, 2018 Share Posted November 25, 2018 What retailers do you remember from your youth that are no longer in business? Where I grew up, TG&Y and Coast to Coast Hardware were the biggest things in town. I lamented C2C's demise, as that's from where all of my .22 bricks came. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrB Posted November 25, 2018 Share Posted November 25, 2018 Western Auto. When I was a boy used to get all my 22 ammo there. My mom gave them permission to sell to me without an adult there, think I was was about 10. Revelation brand if I remember correct. My bicycles my parents bought me came from there as well. Dave.. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F14Scott Posted November 25, 2018 Share Posted November 25, 2018 My buddy and I would spend idle Saturdays riding our bikes to the mall and just walking around, looking in the stores, watching girls, maybe seeing a movie or going to the arcade.Montgomery Ward was one of the anchor stores, and their hardware department had a small gun counter that held a beautiful Browning Hi-Power. We'd ask to see it, and 100% of the time, the salesman would take it out and let us handle it. We were both about 12 years old and completely unaccompanied, but it was a different time, circa 1980.Sent from my SM-G965U using Tapatalk 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PNWguy Posted November 25, 2018 Share Posted November 25, 2018 My mom was a manager of the local Montgomery Ward store. She then went to work for Wal-Mart when they moved in. My dad owned one of four gun shops in town. His shut down in 2007. Now there is only one left, and it is more of an "outdoors/hardware" store. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borg warner Posted November 25, 2018 Share Posted November 25, 2018 17 minutes ago, DrB said: Western Auto. When I was a boy used to get all my 22 ammo there. My mom gave them permission to sell to me without an adult there, think I was was about 10. Revelation brand if I remember correct. My bicycles my parents bought me came from there as well. Dave.. My dad got my first 22 there, it was a Revelation brand tube fed bolt action made by Marlin that he bought for both me and my younger brother to share, which we did, no problem. He also bought a 12 gauge pump for himself with an adjustable choke that was made by Mossberg. Today, I have the Mossberg and my brother has the Marlin. I remember one time I went into Western auto to look at the guns they had locked in a rack at one end of the store. I noticed that in the ceiling above one of the shotguns there was a big hole where someone must have loaded the gun and fired it off while it was in the rack! The ammo was not kept behind the counter at the time but I think after hat happened they started keeping the ammo behind the counter, but I don't really remember. at the time I didn't think to ask how it happened. Maybe I was afraid they'd accuse make of having been the one who did it, but who ever did it probably got caught with the smoking gun though the idiot might have tried to run away. There was another store for a while called White Front (this was in Southern California) and my parents bought my youngest brother an electric guitar there that looked kind of like a fender Telecaster and was white with a maple neck. Later my little brother got a real Telecaster and gave the white front guitar but I never learned how to play it and ended up giving it to a musician friend of mine who seemed to think it was a pretty good guitar for something that probably cost $50 bucks or less at the time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Historian Posted November 25, 2018 Share Posted November 25, 2018 Wool Worths. Wise's drug store (local). We just lost our Sears. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tadbart Posted November 25, 2018 Share Posted November 25, 2018 Zayre's was big in Florida 30+ years ago. I remember Publix with the big wing-looking thing on the front of their store. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted November 25, 2018 Share Posted November 25, 2018 (edited) "White Front" was a chain of discount stores in Southern California and the western United States from 1959 through the mid-1970s. Early version of Walmart. Edited November 25, 2018 by pipedreams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted November 25, 2018 Share Posted November 25, 2018 (edited) Florsheim Shoe Stores in the malls. The brand still exists but all the retails stores are gone, along with other companies such as Kinney Shoes and Thom McAn Edited November 25, 2018 by pipedreams 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnbt Posted November 25, 2018 Share Posted November 25, 2018 I remember the Monkey Ward store in Baltimore. The building also housed one of their 9 national warehouses. The place was huge. It's still there and has been converted to offices. According to wikip it has a 1,000 windows and 1.2 million sq.ft. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnbt Posted November 25, 2018 Share Posted November 25, 2018 Is it too early to list Toys-R-Us? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Picard Posted November 25, 2018 Share Posted November 25, 2018 Gemco 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted November 25, 2018 Share Posted November 25, 2018 ACME Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norton Posted November 25, 2018 Share Posted November 25, 2018 Sears. Its not dead yet, but on life support. Got my first "gun" at Sears, A Crosman .22 pellet rifle. With a real wood stock. C02 powered, I put down many a bird with it. My Dad was a hobby woodworker and purchased most of his tools from there. I still have a good selection of Craftsman power tools, all made in the 1950's and 1960's. Here is one, my Craftsman Jig Saw. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aomagrat Posted November 25, 2018 Share Posted November 25, 2018 8 hours ago, DrB said: Western Auto. When I was a boy used to get all my 22 ammo there. My mom gave them permission to sell to me without an adult there, think I was was about 10. Revelation brand if I remember correct. My bicycles my parents bought me came from there as well. Dave.. The first firearm I fired was a Western Auto Revelation single shot 22. I still have it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aomagrat Posted November 25, 2018 Share Posted November 25, 2018 McClellan's, I bought a lot of model cars there in the '60's. A&P, when I was a kid, all grocery stores were A&P, I haven't seen one in decades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redhookbklyn Posted November 25, 2018 Share Posted November 25, 2018 Horn & Hardart Automat, Abraham & Straus (A&S), Waldbaums, and many more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Leaky Posted November 25, 2018 Share Posted November 25, 2018 There was a 5 & dime chain called Sprouse Reitz that we all went to when I was a kid. No idea when they closed up, they were just gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GPM Posted November 25, 2018 Share Posted November 25, 2018 Wieboldts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted November 25, 2018 Share Posted November 25, 2018 5 hours ago, johnbt said: I remember the Monkey Ward store in Baltimore. The building also housed one of their 9 national warehouses. The place was huge. It's still there and has been converted to offices. According to wikip it has a 1,000 windows and 1.2 million sq.ft. There was a Wards location in St. Paul in an area they called the "Midway" (I guess "midway" between Minneapolis and St. Paul) anyway, it also was a huge facility, both retail sales and regional shipping warehouse. Not quite as bit as the above. I once saw a video of the catalog ordering facility, and until their demise that location still used Index cards to keep track of their inventory. The video was about how antiquated the process was. But, it worked! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moeman Posted November 25, 2018 Share Posted November 25, 2018 Lunch counter at Woolworth, grilled cheese sandwich with mom. Love to live that again. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Huaco Kid Posted November 25, 2018 Share Posted November 25, 2018 ZODYS! (?) (So. Cal. is is probably a safe bet.) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted November 25, 2018 Share Posted November 25, 2018 That was probably my first "you'll shoot your eye out, kid!" experience. And the name stuck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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