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Defunct Stores/restaurants you remember.
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OJdaKiller
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Now there's Big Lots.
Lots of department stores
TG&Y
Service Mechandise
Montgomery Ward
There's a few others that turned into Macy's, basically.
Lots of old drug store chains that are now CVS (Hooks was one around here).
Can't remember any big chain restaurants going under around here (besides the aforementioned Chi-Chi's)... a smaller place or two that GAF wouldn't know about.
TG&Y
Service Mechandise
Montgomery Ward
There's a few others that turned into Macy's, basically.
Lots of old drug store chains that are now CVS (Hooks was one around here).
Can't remember any big chain restaurants going under around here (besides the aforementioned Chi-Chi's)... a smaller place or two that GAF wouldn't know about.
CF_Fighter
Member
Spinnakers
Bennigans
Phar-Mor
My entry: Discovery Zone
Bennigans
Phar-Mor
My entry: Discovery Zone
facepalm007
Member
Fedco
Skel1ingt0n
I can't *believe* these lazy developers keep making file sizes so damn large. Btw, how does technology work?
Montgomery Wards
FuncoLand
Leaps N Bounds / Discovery Zone
GameRush
GameCrazy
Babbage's
Venture
... and so, so, SO many more awesome video game retailers; both big and small. Seriously, I HATE Gamestop so much - they killed all the unique places to hang out, play games, and talk shop.
Captain Tuttle
Member
Alligatorjandro
Banned
Circuit City
outunderthestars
Banned
I know wikipedia says otherwise, but I have driven past Hills stores in NC that are still open and operating.
Came here to post Chi Chi's.
There was an abandoned one near my place in GA. They locked it up one day with everything still inside of it. After five years of it sitting there totally abandoned we decided to go take a closer look. The doors were unlocked, and everything was still there, down to cans of ingredients etc etc. It was really damn spooky.
Came here to post Chi Chi's.
There was an abandoned one near my place in GA. They locked it up one day with everything still inside of it. After five years of it sitting there totally abandoned we decided to go take a closer look. The doors were unlocked, and everything was still there, down to cans of ingredients etc etc. It was really damn spooky.
OrangeGrayBlue
Member
^Funcoland looks so beautiful :')
First one that sprang to mind for me was Montgomery Ward. As a very small child I thought it was called "Mama's gummy words" and, naturally, I thought my mom owned it. Outside of that little childhood anecdote, though, I'm not too upset that it's gone.
First one that sprang to mind for me was Montgomery Ward. As a very small child I thought it was called "Mama's gummy words" and, naturally, I thought my mom owned it. Outside of that little childhood anecdote, though, I'm not too upset that it's gone.
Pic-N-Save. Changed to Big Lots, but there's a strip-mall here that still has (nearly 20 years later) the Pic-N-Save logo on some windows in what used to be the "anchor" store. It's crazy.
abolisher6812
Member
Zayres
KB Toys
KB Toys
outunderthestars
Banned
You know what was awesome about Children's Palace? They sold import toys like GUNDAM figures and other cool anime stuff. The boxes would be in Japanese and everything, just with an American price tag. It was awesome.
They also had the biggest selection of those '80s RC robots. I always wanted this bad boy:
My parents got me that thing. Sadly we lived in a carpeted home and it didn't work well on the carpet.
DrForester
Kills Photobucket
Boardwalk USA Arcades (Can't even find a picture because Boardwalk and USA bring up too many hits).
Used credit-cards that you charged with time, and could play all the games for the time you paid for. Used credits for premium games like the VR simulators, and Laser Tag.
Used credit-cards that you charged with time, and could play all the games for the time you paid for. Used credits for premium games like the VR simulators, and Laser Tag.
br0ken_shad0w
Member
Dead (in America at least). It put Wal-Mart Supercenter to shame in both size and quality (and this actual store actually gave the idea of supercenters to Wal-Mart in the first place). The best part was how they handled shopping carts. They were coin-operated and if you wanted your quarter back, you had to bring your cart back into storage.
tekumseh
a mass of phermones, hormones and adrenaline just waiting to explode
I was always excited to go to Service Merchandise as a kid. For some reason, placing an order for something from a display unit, then going to that huge roller conveyor to wait for it to shoot out through the curtain was overwhelmingly more fun than just putting it in a cart then paying for it.
I also miss these places:
Black Eyed Pea restaurants
Burger Chef (which were bought by Hardee's)
Blocks (local department store chain in Indiana)
LS Ayres (sucked up by Macy's. also fairly local to Indiana)
Fuddruckers (gone in Indiana)
Dick Clark's American Bandstand Restaurants
My town, too, had a Hills, an Ames, and a Rax. Hills used to always have their own fireworks on July 4, after the local ones ended. That was pretty cool...
I also miss these places:
Black Eyed Pea restaurants
Burger Chef (which were bought by Hardee's)
Blocks (local department store chain in Indiana)
LS Ayres (sucked up by Macy's. also fairly local to Indiana)
Fuddruckers (gone in Indiana)
Dick Clark's American Bandstand Restaurants
My town, too, had a Hills, an Ames, and a Rax. Hills used to always have their own fireworks on July 4, after the local ones ended. That was pretty cool...
Yes! What ever happened to them?
Colonel Mustard
Banned
There are three Rax near me. There's a Shoney's too.
I'd say probably Hills or Ames for me. Rex electronics too.
I'd say probably Hills or Ames for me. Rex electronics too.
Skel1ingt0n
I can't *believe* these lazy developers keep making file sizes so damn large. Btw, how does technology work?
Hot DOG! I think that's a picture from the long-defunct "Bannister Ball" near Kansas City, MO.
NJ. The only thing I really remember about Two Guys was when they added an arcade and a vague recollection of the store being robbed by a few local police officers.
Another place I remember that had an arcade in the same building was Beefsteak Charlies.
Megadragon15
Member
Gemco.
CompUSA.
The Federated.
Lucky Stores.
Tower Records.
CompUSA.
The Federated.
Lucky Stores.
Tower Records.
Baraka in the White House
2-Terms of Kombat
Babbage's
Software Etc.
Suncoast
Circuit City
Bennigan's
Montgomery Ward
Service Merchandise
Mervyn's
Steak 'n' Ale
Eckerd's
Ryan's Steakhouse
Software Etc.
Suncoast
Circuit City
Bennigan's
Montgomery Ward
Service Merchandise
Mervyn's
Steak 'n' Ale
Eckerd's
Ryan's Steakhouse
Not sure how widely spread this chain was but:
They had an early bird special cajun chicken pasta, with a free drink, their salad bar, the entree and dessert for like $10-12 (forgot exactly)... yum.
Plus my local one looked like a weird German house or something:
Edit: Damn you DOO13ER!
They had an early bird special cajun chicken pasta, with a free drink, their salad bar, the entree and dessert for like $10-12 (forgot exactly)... yum.
Plus my local one looked like a weird German house or something:
Edit: Damn you DOO13ER!
Count Dookkake
Member
Child World - like Toys R Us, but with a fake castle exterior.
Sambo's - restaurant with an accidentally racist name. There's only one left.
Zayre - similar to K-Mart and Target.
Sambo's - restaurant with an accidentally racist name. There's only one left.
Zayre - similar to K-Mart and Target.
Baraka in the White House
2-Terms of Kombat
Edit: Damn you DOO13ER!
Several of their old Houston area locations are still empty shell properties to this day. Steak and Ale buildings are easy to spot even without signs.
balladofwindfishes
Member
Caldor
Circuit City
Media Play
I used to like all three. I remember Caldor closed when I was still a very little kid, but my mom and grandma would go shopping while my grandpa would take me to the little carousel/arcade they had and I'd play there while they shopped.
Circuit City
Media Play
I used to like all three. I remember Caldor closed when I was still a very little kid, but my mom and grandma would go shopping while my grandpa would take me to the little carousel/arcade they had and I'd play there while they shopped.
lazybones18
Banned
Farmer Jack
sooperkool
Member
Needed to be restated
Count Dookkake
Member
Funniest bit of Caldor history was when they tried to edit the NYT Best Seller list to occlude Howard Stern's Private Parts:
wikipedia said:
RSLAEV
Member
My wife says Zody's, although I've never been to one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq0C3OUaTow
Also National Lumber
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Goka26scujk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq0C3OUaTow
Also National Lumber
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Goka26scujk
HammerOfThor
Member
The building is still there on Foster in Chicago, and has yet to find new occupiers.
It was kind of like a Target clone.
And this
This is the one I miss the most.
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