Childhood Memories

[HoJofan206]

This is an easy one.  The three "first" stores for me where:

1. K-Mart  (0n St. Joe Avenue)
2. McDonalds
3. Pizza Hut

Funny thing is, we lost all five of our local K-Marts during the closing phase a few years back and I havent eaten at a Pizza Hut restaurant in at least the past 10 years. :tumble:

[Jag67]

1. K-Mart

2. McDonalds

3. Hills

[store215]

1. Clover
2. Kmart
3. Roy Rogers

[HoJofan206]

What is/was a Clover store?  :huh:

[store215]

Originally posted by HoJofan206
What is/was a Clover store?  :huh:

Look in the Closed Chains forum

[Caldor1999]

1 Caldor

2 Service Merchandise

3 McDonalds

[tokensafari]

KMart
Hills
Toys R Us

[truviking05]

1. Toys R Us!--I spent roughly half of my early childhood there.
2. Target--my first *real, solid* memory of reading something.
3. Wal-Mart...--spent some time there too...it's the old, unm-sprawling stores I remember.

[TRU7536]

1. Toys R Us
2. Radio Shack (my parents bought alot of toys for me their)
3.Bradlees (My parents use to go their all the time)

[Jag67]

Thats to bad I'm lucky I still have my K-mart

AWWW!!!:mad::bouncing:

[Zayre88]

1. Zayre (my first small bike was from Zayre)
2. kmart (they were all around when i was a kid
3. Burger King (we went often while on vacation because we only had McDonald's in our town)

[storehistoryguy]

Woolworth's
Bradlees
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[Anonymous]

Mine are:Venture,Service Merchandise,and Wards!

[d_fife]

me bradlees, toys r us and ames.

[Ameskid]

1. Kmart
2. Parisian
3. Service Merchandise
I don't remember the last 2, but my mom says I loved riding in their glass elevators.

[Crawford]

For me it was

1. Mammoth Mart
2. Grant's
3. Star Market

These were the anchors in the shopping plaza down the street from me.

The Mammoth Mart became a King's and is now a Burlington Coat Factory

Grant's became a Save Rite and is now Ocean State Job Lot

Star Market was bought out by Almacs and then closed in the 1990's. The building was for a short time a Furniture Discount Store and now stands empty.

If I may add one more store it would be Child World which was across the street from the plaza. It was vacant for many years before being gutted and resurrected as a Pep Boys

[tomasher]

Philadelphia, PA - born and raised, but now rockin' the suburbs.

1. Clover
2. Kiddie City
3. Roy Rogers

[fa152]

Toys 'R' Us
Service Merchandise
Sears

[beachgal26]

I have alot more than 3, but here they are in order of those I miss the most:

1 - Woolworth
2 - GC Murphy
3-  EJ Korvette
4 - Robert Hall (clothing)
5 - Kinney Shoes
6 -  A&P food stores
7 - Ames/Hills/Gold Circle

(Nothing personal as I loved the last 3, but I shopped at the first 2 for over 35 years!  Oops, I guess that I just blew any cover that I had on how old I really am....)

:roll: :D :P :saint:

[KyleRF]

1-Jamesway: I was 3 when it went out of business, but I still remember it so well

2-Service Merchandise-Another good store I really miss

3-Steinbach-a nice department store that was taken over by Lord and Taylor at my local mall

[ameskmart1]

Kmart
Wal-Mart
Hennessy's
KB Toys
Sam Goody
Fred Meyer
Harvest Foods
Safeway
Buttrey Food & Drug

[beachgal26]

I know that I really "date" myself when I talk about what I remember from my growing up in the 50's and 60's before most of you were born, but it was a great time for retail with so much variety that I will always miss.  Here's my top 3:
 
1 - EJ Korvettes
2 - Robert Hall
3 - W Woolworth

Honorable mention:

Bakers Shoes
GC Murphy
WT Grant
Musicland
Merry-Go-Round
Food Fair
A & P
And any place that gave Green Stamps!

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