Defunct Stores We All Miss!

Some stores that were once a part of our lives are now gone forever. We never thought they would go away, but now that they have, many of us would love to shop there just one more time. In this video we will take a look at some of the defunct stores we all miss!
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[@MotownBatman]

BRING BACK K-MaRt! I Miss the Blue Light Specials LOL

[@MsDisneylandlover]

My mom rip use to love that store and ppl n the neighborhood call her Ms. Kmart bc she always had dose bags n her hands lol

[@jwb52z9]

If you ever get to go to Australia, it's still open there. The US company licensed the name and logo to an Australian company, but it is identical.

[@MotownBatman]

@@jwb52z9 I grew up down the Street from the Original K-Mart, my Great aunt lived behind it, LOVED that Store LOL

[@ThomasDrish]

⁠@@jwb52z9I’m very curious how successful Kmart is in Australia.

[@lainiwakura1776]

Idk what happened with that company, but they took Sears down with them.

[@Engineersoldiers_Spiritof76_21]

Tower Records was an awesome place. My sister and I would spend hours on Fridays after school browsing CD's and listening to new releases that they played overhead. They had a very quiet and comfy classical music section behind soundproof doors. We would go in there to take brake from the loud music. There was a KMart nearby where we would stock up on junk food for our weekend tv watching. We saved it for late night TV because our parents would have gone crazy if they knew we were consuming so much junk food.

[@JosephMartin-sj3kz]

We HATED to say we went there ‘cuz it was a nationally known company. We wanted to support our local businesses, our Strawberries Records and our tiny video rental companies as opposed to Blockbusters (If only we knew then what we now do)! 👍😊

[@kimberleyannedemong5621]

I liked bed bath & beyond. I really miss Lord & Taylor. I hate buying clothes on line. Happy Father's Day to you

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you Kimberley. I had a great father's day. I don't think I am familiar with Lord & Taylor. I will have to look them up.

[@ghyein]

Want our K-Mart, Woolworth's, and the Bon Marche back, Radio Shack too! While were at it, just bring back everything and get rid of all the new crap.

[@biashacker]

HEAR HEAR...,!!!

[@julieshelley-fd5kp]

I agree doll!

[@farrierette5216]

I really miss Woolworth's K-mart and Radio Shack.

[@AltimaNEO]

Theres a lot of old shops I miss, that I enjoyed shopping at, or simply because of their prominent advertising that was a big part of my childhood. Thrifty's, Pic N Save, Hughe's, Dale's Jr, Kmart, Sears, Dearden's, the list goes on. What a shame that all that matters these days is Amazon and Walmart.

[@MrMegaFredZeppelin]

Thank you Rhetty for History for keeping our Nostalgic Memories alive🙏🏻I miss those days as a child😫Happy Fathers Day😃ROCK ON!!!!!!!🤘🏻🤙🏻✌🏻

[@JosephMartin-sj3kz]

Happy Father’s Day to y’all! These posts are both sad AND happy, aren’t they?! I just love remembering my dad taking me (us) to these stores & his urging me not to “run off”; to not “get lost”! 👍

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching MrMegaFredZeppelin!

[@beckychristiansen8954]

We had a Ben Franklin here up until just a couple years ago when the owners retired. We still reference the location as “by where Ben Franklin was”

[@JosephMartin-sj3kz]

I’m from MA & I know that things aren’t as neighborly without our “Fayva” shoe stores. Our “Zayer’s”. Without our “Strawberries Records”, & our (exclamation) “Filene’s”. I also liked going to the “Woolworth” store, where we smelled the popcorn when we came in, the kids could ride the electric horse ride on the way out. Where mom could buy a new radio as well as a pack of socks! Ah well, times change. “C’est la vie!” I’ll always remember those times fondly, though. They kinda’ bring tears of happiness to my eyes. Thanks for the post, Rhetty! 😐🙂

[@jayalexander3356]

Fayva had great shoes.

[@kmstins]

What about Spag's in Shrewsbury? My dad was from Worcester. We got to go to Spag's while visiting relatives up there every summer. 😊

[@SavaFiend]

I loved the McCrory's in our mall! There was a little restaurant part in the front of the store on one side, and on the front on the other side was a small record store, where I got many a good album from their bargain bin.

[@genekelley7579]

🛑🛑 Gee Bees was a store that I fondly remember from living in Johnstown PA. Gee Bees was owned by Glosser Brothers, and was like Walmart of today; with clothing, toys, sporting goods, houseware, electronics and groceries. They even had a conveyor belt for grocery pickup, that carried the groceries outside to awaiting cars; making loading easier. It was Walmart, BEFORE Walmart. 😀👍💯

[@kmstins]

I loved Gee Bee and Hills stores! I'm in Pittsburgh. 🤗

[@rick3747]

I miss McCrory's, Woolworths, Hesses, Grants, Lehs, Orrs, Bradlees, Ames, Jamesway, Kmart, Almart, Two Guys, Falks, Sears, A&P, Pathmark, Jewel T...... Yes, I live in PA

[@kaydublin5164]

I was thinking I remember all these stores, I’m also in PA.😊

[@100percentSNAFU]

From NY right across the state line and frequented the malls in Erie and Warren, PA in the 80's with my parents so I remember a lot of these as well, along with Bon Ton and Dahlkempers both PA original stores I believe. We had several of these in NY as well. Jamesway was named after Jamestown NY the site of its first store and where I grew up.

[@joeheid2776]

Living in Pittsburgh McCrory's and GC Murphy's were huge growing up. Went there practically every week.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching and sharing a couple that you went to a lot joeheid2776!

[@jimholmes2555]

Spartan and Service Merchandise were two stores my parents shopped at often as I remember when I was a child.

[@NateB1976]

Yep, Service Merchandise was really big here in TN.

[@karensteck3800]

We shopped at Spartans when I was a kid in the sixties

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching and sharing a couple you used to go to Jim!

[@kaydublin5164]

Loved Service Merchandise

[@fob1xxl]

In the 50s, I grew up with all those wonderful stores like NEWBERRY'S, KRESS, AND WOOLWORTH'S. FOUNTAINS, PETS, CATS, DOGS, BUDGIES, BUNNIES, DUCKS, CHICKS ! FISH AND TURTLES TOO ! Got my first DUNCAN YO-YO at WOOLWORTH'S! SUCH GREAT MEMORIES!

[@xgiancanax1749]

Happy fathers day Rhetty my first job was at Korvettes department store in 1975

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching and sharing where your first job was. I don't think I have covered that one yet.

[@sergeipohkerova7211]

I imagine that most people have a distinct, childhood memory of a corner market, bodega, or liquor store that was privately owned by some older war veteran and as a kid they'd often go in there to buy candy or get sent there to pick something up for their mom or dad, and then gradually as you grow up you forget about it, but now many years latee you feel sad because you know that the owner must long since be passed away and that old store is like a check cashing joint or smoke shop now.

[@thejourney1369]

We had a local grocer, and Mom would get part of her groceries there and part at the other one. I loved going to the first one. They let me go behind their counter and I’d play with their adding machine. Mom used to tell me to get out from back there and they’d tell her to leave me alone. At that time, Wonder bread would give tiny little loaves of bread as a promo to their retailers, and these were often given to me. Eula called me Doll Baby. Thanks for helping me to remember a precious memory!

[@krisfrederick5001]

I loved going to KMart with my Mom as a kid. "Somewhere I have heard this before...in a dream my memory has STORED" -Nirvana, On A Plain

[@russbear31]

A more recent closure I'll miss is Tuesday Morning. I still miss Montgomery Ward and Woolco. 😢

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching and sharing a few that you miss russbear31!

[@waynev.8200]

I grew up in Southern California and in the 1970s we had a store called Zodys. It was like Target or Walmart. I remember going to their grand re-opening because Willie Mays was there signing autographs. I still have it but Zodys is no longer around.

[@stanford-nf4jk]

@waynev.8200 SoCal native here! I *loved* going to Zodys because it usually meant my mom was going to buy me a small treat of f some sort.

[@waynev.8200]

@@stanford-nf4jk 😁

[@jedidrummerjake]

We loved TG&Y. They had something for everybody.

[@nolamisskel]

Yep!

[@RhettyforHistory]

I loved that store as well. Thank you for watching!

[@nancyvernon3017]

In the 80's I had moved to the Carolina's and in this town they totally covered downtown mainstreet with a rooftop, converting it into a mall. One of the anchor stores was McCrory's. I loved going there bcuz it was like stepping back into the 1940's. They still had an operational soda shop and restaurant grill, that served burgers and plate lunches. I went there frequently on my lunch break as the prices couldn't be beat. One of the downtown office buildings still had the old timey elevator, complete with an elevator operator to run it. When you entered, you told him what floor you were going to, he closed the gate then the sliding elevator doors , locked them and up you went. It was cool, and I'm glad my daughter and I got to experience it.

[@princessmarlena1359]

I think one of my cousins went there!

[@kerrid.979]

Bed Bath & Beyond is back as an online store. They send me emails everyday. I preferred shopping in the store, though. I miss a mall store called Natural Wonders. It was a science-y/nature store and they had fun stuff to play with. I still have some t-shirts from the 90s that I got there.

[@NateB1976]

Yeah we had Natural Wonders here in the mall back in the day. Cool shop with all the new age trinkets and fun projects to buy and do. Lots of crystals and gem stones, posters, incense, rain sticks, hacky sacks and other fun stuff.

[@melisaeslinger6247]

I have fond memories of Alexander's department store. My mom and aunt used to take my cousin and I shopping there.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching and sharing one that you have fond memories of Melissa!

[@leonardvicari2857]

I remember T G& Y They had one in the lakeside mall when I was a little boy

[@RhettyforHistory]

I really loved TG&Y and they were always one of my favorite stores. Thank you for watching Leonard!

[@pepperman2385]

Not sure how big they were overall but growing up Gibson's had 4 big stores in Lawton Oklahoma. They've been gone for decades. Far more recently there was Alco. Alco was a department type store that operated in markets too small for Walmart. They shut down due to mismanagement and increased pressures from dollar stores taking their market share.

[@kirkmorrison6131]

I loved Ben Franklin and Murphy's, as a kid I could get fish and model stuff there. It was the closest thing to a hobby store near me

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching and sharing a couple you loved Kirk!

[@only257]

Great 😊

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching only257!

[@missmercurys]

I really liked Woolworth because it had a dinner and you could sit down and eat and after shopping.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with us missmercurys!

[@XianHu]

Several stores had little cafés or diners in them... now they're all McDonald's or other big chains, if they have them at all.

[@russbear31]

Here in Kansas City, Western Auto's huge 1940s neon sign still stands atop the company's old headquarters building. It's a famous landmark. Western Auto is long gone and its offices have been turned into high $ condos with great views of the downtown skyline. I do miss Western Auto.

[@USNBLUE]

I remember Ben Franklin. We were always in there.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching and sharing one you remember USNBLUE!

[@swansfan6944]

I miss a lot of stores. I went to the mall yesterday and there was hardly anyone in there. It is definitely a different vibe to days gone by. Paul says it’s Father’s Day, so happy Father’s Day Rhett, I hope you have a lovely day. It’s the 17th here today, my husband’s birthday. Our Father’s Day is the first Sunday of September. ❤Jodie 🇦🇺 - Hi Paul 👋😁🇺🇸

[@paulstan9828]

👋😁🇦🇺

[@paulstan9828]

Happy Father’s Day Rhetty! Lot of memories with some of those stores. Competition and time changes things but not always for the best. Makes you wonder if eventually online shopping will fade and brick and mortar stores will be the fad again. Hi Jodie! 😁👋🇦🇺

[@JosephMartin-sj3kz]

I (sadly) have to say that these things are never coming back. Like the album, manually changing channels, & stereo systems, their time is over (too much time/effort & society’s ALWAYS in a hurry for some reason). MAYBE we’ll see live bank tellers reappear, but that’s not a wise bet, either. Fortunately, WE’LL always have our memories of shopping at these stores! 👍😊🩷

[@swansfan6944]

Hi Paul 😁👋🇺🇸

[@bunnybachman]

Happy Father's Day, Rhetty!

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you and I appreciate you watching!

[@cabbitkisser2620]

i miss the Woolworth stores & the Jefferson ward stores

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching and sharing a couple you miss cabbitkisser2620!

[@mcorleonep]

Ben Franklin, Tops, Korvette’s to name a few. Also miss White Hen (much better than 7-11).

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching and sharing some that you love and remember mcorleonep!

[@lainiwakura1776]

I want FedCo back! The 99 Cent Only stores closing is so sad, they were family run until a few years ago and the company that bought them loaded the brand with debt so the higher ups could get a little extra money, it's disgusting, really.

[@Lovejazz01]

I miss TG&Y stores in Memphis, I remember when we were kids my cousin would say “ TG&Y, they ghip you “ 😄, kids will say anything, but it was really a great store..

[@RhettyforHistory]

It really was a great store and one of my favorites. Thank you for watching Lovejazz01!

[@pheona1164]

lmao Remember pic n save? Also, many of these stores were in my life at some point, but Newberry was my jam for school clothes, and going into Service Merchandise with my dad was like going to a toy store... I remember a lot of music boxes and kitchen sets. We would follow that trip up with a visit to Thrifty Drugs for Thrifty ice cream that was scooped in cylinder shape. Thanks for the memories.

[@abrakahocus]

I miss Woolworths & Acme :)

[@anonymousYTviewer69]

where does Wile E. shop now??

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching abrakahocus!

[@XianHu]

Acme Super Saver was our local grocery store when I was young. I remember Woolworths, too, but that was much further away.

[@abrakahocus]

😃

[@LISA.R.2112]

I don't know if they were just a Texas thing but Mott's five & dime are a memory from my childhood. Thanks as always Rhett ! Great content !! 👍✌️❤️

[@RhettyforHistory]

I'll have to look that one up as I am not familiar with them. Thank you for watching and telling us about them Lisa!

[@MsGail61]

T G & Y made me think of TCBY, a frozen yogurt shop I want back.

[@NateB1976]

Yeah TCBY was the ORIGINAL frozen yogurt place. I can remember going there and it being packed when it first opened because it was such a new idea. A new YUMMY idea. LOL!!!

[@cdrogers72]

I thought that too! Apparently, there are still a few around. There's still one on Roswell Rd. Just on the north side of Atlanta, Ga. I mighthave to swing by.

[@janicelabuda8540]

We remember and miss these stores. Thank you for this great post! 👍👍

[@RhettyforHistory]

You're welcome and thank you for watching janicelabuda8540!

[@philipcollins5440]

Wow, did this bring back the memories. We shopped at most of these stores. Did you noticed the different cars??!!!

[@RhettyforHistory]

I love looking at the old cars in the photos. Thank you for watching philipcollins5440!

[@dropshot5371]

Gibson's. Growing up in Garland TX, Gibson's and K- Mart were in competition for my hard earned money. Gibson's sold military surplus rifles on huge revolving displays for $35.00. As soon as I was old enough I bought one! That was probably a weeks pay.

[@bettytordoff8920]

Just think, the owner of Walmart took oit the very site that gave him a start. I miss Ben Franklin so badly. As well as TG&Y, K-Mart,Woolworth, Sears's, the list goes on & on. I just hope Joann's Fabric can hold on. Thanks Rhetty for another great weekly installment!

[@3Storms]

I want Winns back. Here in Texas they were the first casualties when Walmart moved into the cities in 1989.

[@crazyviking24]

I swear that there is still a Kress supermarket in downtown Seattle as recently as 2015.

[@RhettyforHistory]

I wonder if it is the same place? Thank you for watching crazyviking24!

[@kingvagar]

Western Auto was my place to go for maintenance for my Oldsmobile station wagon… others store I wish still operating are Woolworth, you could find everything in there, and they had a restaurant inside (their chocolate cake was to die for). Also with all the home security gadgets that we have I wish Radio Shack still in business, so I can buy extensions cords to some of my USB powered camera and other things.

[@thelittlegreenball6813]

TG&Y!! Yes!! I remember going as a baby and my Mom would buy her sewing needs and me a cheap toy! ❤❤❤❤ Thank you for the memories! You're awesome!

[@leonardvicari2857]

I remember K&B I Live in metairie Louisiana

[@meauxjeaux431]

I BET YOU REMEMBER THAT K&B BRAND ICE CREAM WAS EVERY BIT AS GOOD, OR EVEN BETTER THAN BLUE BELL. QUARTS SOLD FOR ABOUT $1.75 RIGHT BEFORE THEY SOLD TO WRONG AID, WHO DID EVERYTHING WRONG, AND 100% BASS AKWARDS FROM WHAT MADE K&B SO AWESOME. NOT LONG AFTER, AND DESERVIDLY SO, THE LOCAL HOUMA WRONG AIDS SHUT DOWN.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching leonardvicari2857!

[@robgarnett3767]

I wish we could have Benny’s back it was on Cape Cod don’t know if they were a chain or not, but that store had everything! Happy Father’s Day 😊

[@bigshot0987]

Rhett thank you so much for the upload another great video and blast from the past your awesome man great work

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching I'm happy to hear you enjoyed this video bigshot0987!

[@frankm7707]

Bringing back these stores are not difficult. It’s web competition and those losers keep shoplifting are the reason retailers are moving away from B&M business.

[@hillbillytrucker8347]

Thanks for the memories of times gone by. Most of the stores mentioned weren't located near my hometown. I really appreciate you showing stores from other parts of the country. I really miss sears stores and the catalog, especially the craftsman tool brand. When they were made here in the US. I remember Western Auto as my dad used to buy parts from there and I still get parts from advance stores.

[@frankrizzo4460]

Living in South Florida back then I miss Burdines, The Treasury, Jefferson's, and Zayre too.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching and sharing some of the ones you miss frankrizzo4460!

[@IceManLikeGervin]

Woolworth!!!!

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching robgarnett3767!

[@Chaos_]

Does anyone else here miss Radio Shack?

[@RhettyforHistory]

I definitely do but the old ones when it was a bunch of parts and gadgets that you could build stuff with. Thank you for watching Chaos!

[@wiggycarter]

I worked at Jay Jacobs, they were a great company to work for.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching and sharing your experience with them wiggycarter!

[@SMac-bq8sk]

Wow, T.G. & Y.! I haven't thought of that one in ages. Thanks for the memory jolt!

[@RhettyforHistory]

I really loved TG&Y. Thank you for watching!

[@MrPGC137]

One store I have fond childhood memories of are the old Rexall Drug stores. As I recall, they had a surprising variety of different items & merchandise, at fairly good prices, and just generally had a nice, relaxed, friendly atmosphere to the place. Plus, it was were some of my earliest comic-book purchases were made there. So I look back fondly upon them overall. I also remember a store in my area called Gemco. I don't know if they were a nationwide chain or not (or if they were, how large they were.) I just remember you had to have a membership card to get in, which you had to flash upon entry, otherwise they wouldn't let you in. After that however, they had a pretty good selection of items, all at very good prices. It was kind of a general medium-sized department-store essentially. We also had a store called White Front, and they had a _huge_ selection of items, everything from books & records to kitchenware to carpets, drapes, automotive. Man, you name it. That was the store were my parents did a lot of their shopping, and while they were doing that I'd be in (where else?) the toy department, after which I'd wander to the books & music dept. and just kind of generally migrate & drift around without getting lost. (In hindsight, it was a more innocent time I guess.)

[@bizarrogamer3188]

I grew up in Collinsville, Oklahoma in the seventies and eighties, and we had an Otasco on Main St. I have fond memories of going there with my great grandmother to shop. Thank you for the video and the recollection.

[@salsal435]

K B Toys was my favorite store as a kid!

[@RhettyforHistory]

That was a fun store! Thank you for watching!

[@LISA.R.2112]

Happy Father's day Rhett !!

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you Lisa! I had a great day with the kids!

[@bonniebrush94]

I miss Woolworths, Newberrys, Grants, as well as Montgomery Wards and Sears. (and KMart before it merged with Sears).

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching and sharing a few that you miss bonniebrush94!

[@phylliswurm9473]

I adored all the older stores like Newberrys, Woolworth. KMART, Clark's shoes, W. T. Grants,Mayfair markets and others. Good video.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching and sharing some of the stores you enjoyed Phyllis!

[@grizwoldphantasia5005]

Rexall ... nothing special about the stores themselves, but I remember when someone explained the name was from "Rx", the abbreviation for Prescription in Latin used by doctors ... or something. I liked the name, mostly, because you could lean into the Rexxxxall.

[@MamaStyles]

We still have them in Canada!

[@russbear31]

I do genealogy. A few years ago I was excited when I found a distant cousin's obituary. He was actually the last CEO and president of Rexall Drugs and saw it through its bankruptcy. Rexall was killed by Walgreens, CVS, and the other giant chains. Rexall was just a loose association of small, independently owned drugstores. It never was a huge mega chain. My distant cousin owned a couple of small drugstores in rural northern Iowa.

[@bonniebrush94]

I remember Recall from my childhood. It was a great store and friendly people. 👍

[@TH-hy9kr]

I miss Stone and Thomas. It was my favourite dept. store. My prom dress came from there and I loved going with my grandmother Joyce and my mom.

[@keisamallory2591]

I want toys us back

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching keisamallory2591!

[@JosephMartin-sj3kz]

Toys R Us never really officially closed. It just faded away. My mom got me an electronic Simon toy there one Christmas & I thought she was such a smart shopper (she WAS gonna’ get me a Cabbage Patch Doll, but I was adamant - NO WAY)! 👍

[@monikameza4107]

Happy Father's Day Rhetty❤. And thank you for this cool video.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you Monika and I appreciate you watching as well!

[@Toolaholic7]

There was a Ben Franklin store in Fremont,MI at one time.Carquest is another one gone,Advance Auto bought them out.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching and mentioning Carquest Toolaholic7!

[@MamaStyles]

Being Canadian I don’t recognize any of these stores but thought I’d make a list for canucks of stores we no longer have Consumers Distributing, Zellers(word is they are coming back) Sears,Mark and Spencer’s,Radio Shack,Woolco,Woolworth’s,Kresgee,Target 🤣 Laura Secord,Cotton Ginny…add yours below!

[@basshead2003]

Kmart, BiWay, Bargain Harold’s, Towers, A&A Records and Tapes/Records on Wheels, Music World, Sam the Record Man, Toys & Wheels, Simpsons. Laura Secord is still around.

[@travelingwithmikeandpam9074]

I remember many of these stores! Thanks for the memories Rhetty!

[@RhettyforHistory]

You're welcome and thank you for watching my friend!

[@MurderHornet-mo3tm]

we still have a bed bath here

[@RhettyforHistory]

Very interesting since they went out of business in the brick and mortar. Is it a shell of one? I know we have several of those like that and that is what some of the photos were in this video. Thank you for watching MurderHornet.

[@marylist1236]

I live in Kalamazoo, Michigan, & I miss Gilmore's, Walgreens, Muir's Drugs, & D&C 5c & 10c

[@RhettyforHistory]

You don't have a Walgreens there? I definitely figured you would in that area. Thank you for watching marylist1236!

[@gregggoss2210]

Some great memories. Where I grew up, we had a Ben Franklin. The store I miss the most is K Mart.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching and sharing what you miss Greg!

[@sonhuynh8222]

I miss Levitz and Jay Jacobs …. Shopped their often growing up in the PNW 😢❤

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching and sharing a couple you miss sonhuynh8222!

[@mickeymet6973]

Growing up in the San Diego area, my Mom loved Walker Scott’s. I remember two things about the store, my Mom would invariably ask me to hold her purse (oh it just mortified me to do it) and the store had a unique method to page employees to either help a customer or answer a phone by sending a series pings or short and rapid tones over the store’s PA system. From there we’d head to deFalco’s, a grocery store that I think Von’s took over long before Safeway took over Von’s! After we moved to the Portland area, Mom shopped at Meier & Frank’s which Macy’s later bought out and put their name onto.

[@TheUluxian]

I enjoy looking at al the old cars in the parking lots..

[@RhettyforHistory]

I love doing that as well. Thank you for watching!

[@kirkmorrison6131]

Oh I got my first 22 RF at 10 with Dad's help from Weston Auto.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Do you still have it? Was it their brand by chance?

[@kirkmorrison6131]

@@RhettyforHistory Yep, just a little 22 single shot. I also have a 410 that I got for Christmas the next year.

[@muzerhythm2242]

Does anyone remember Highland Appliance? Not sure if it was just in Texas, but I remember the quirky commercials: One was a child practicing piano (Fur Elise), and his friend came to the window and wanted him to come outside, so he recorded himself playing so he could sneak out the window. The other was on a Russian submarine and they were excited about the new stereo system saying "50 watts....woooaah." 😂😂

[@jeffreyhickman3871]

Sprouse-Reitz was one of my favorites, when I and my mom visited Coolidge, Arizona. T.G.&Y was another favorite store, when I moved to Casa Grande, Arizona in 1989. I also got to shop at Kmart in Casa Grande, Arizona, in 1985. I came from Anchorage, Alaska at the time ⏲️ to visit my mother 👩. Sadly 😥, these stores disappeared over time. I REALLY liked Western Auto. My brother and I, would visit ours, located in Glennallen, Alaska, and buy Life Savers, in 1978. Your friend, Jeff.

[@KristianWontroba]

Hills and that incredible popcorn! 🍿. Miss it man! 😭

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching KristianWontroba!

[@MsDisneylandlover]

Hey🎉🎉🎉 #DisneyDiva ❤ Happy Father's Day ❤ No more 99 center store recently 😢.

[@yvonnepetty3400]

Thanks Rhett. Yes the same thing happened here in Africa and my Sister telling me the UK is the same. So sad. Keep well. Love from Africa 🌍

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching Yvonne. It's sad to see stores going out everywhere like that.

[@aariley2]

OTASCO!!!! The had the vest toys! I still have my magic mushroom tree!!!❤❤❤

[@RhettyforHistory]

It really was a great store. Good catalogs too. Thank you for watching aariley2!

[@theequalizer9154]

Woolworth .5 & .10. I miss those stores. Those and John's Bargain Stores. HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you and I appreciate you watching. I am not familiar with the John's Bargain Stores. I will have to look them up.

[@ReadJournalLove]

Otasco! I’m the 70s we had one downtown Guthrie and we’d take our Christmas money to get toys the day after Christmas. We also had to get our Girl Scout uniforms there. Good times!

[@RhettyforHistory]

Interesting the Girl Scout uniforms came from there. I didn't realize they would have that. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with us!

[@melissavermillion1101]

Ben Franklin!! I loved shopping in there. A little bit of everything. 😊

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching Melissa!

[@kristendavis9563]

I remember my father and I going to Western Auto for car parts. Memories ❤️

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with us kristendavis9563!

[@andrewmaximo4485]

I remember a place called Hills that was like Walmart, Target, KMart etc. My city also had a chain called Revco Pharmacy that was acquired by CVS. There was also a Bonanza, Rax, Payless Shoes, Sam Goody, KB Toys, Media Play and Babbages near me growing up.

[@RhettyforHistory]

You mentioned some great ones there Andrew! Thank you for watching!

[@stargazeronesixseven]

🙏 Missed those more warm & friendlier shopping experiences of the 1970s to the 1990s ... 🙏🌷🌿🍎🍊🌏✌💜🕊

[@XMattingly]

I’m glad you mentioned TG&Y. My dad worked for that outfit in Tulsa for a couple of years before it closed down, then got a job with Alco in Wichita (which also shuttered after almost a century) in the mid/late 2000’s. 🤷‍♂️

[@grumpyoldwizard]

In San Antonio HEB took over Albertsons, Kroger, Handy Andy and many more. It is all we have now... I have great memoris of Western Auto. In the 60's back in Oregon, as a kiddo I looked at the store all the time, looking for a bicycle of cool accessory for it. Good times.

[@DavidSquires-iy4uv]

BRING, BACK A&P, KMART, MONTGOMERY WARDS, SEARS, AND THE LOCALLY, AND NATIONAL STORES,THAT ALSO WENT OUT OF BUSINESS YEARS AGO. THOSE WERE THE VERY GOOD STORES 👍 TO SHOP AT, FOR BOTH GROCERIES AND GENERAL MERCHANDISE. I MISS THEM ALL 😢. 5:54

[@bubwal23xifan]

Ben Franklin was my go to store to buy my model kits when I was a kid. That store had the best selection of Revell and Monogram kits, especially Nascar kits which was all I built. Other stores I miss is Hills dept store, Phar-Mor, Mega-Mart. Western Auto sponsored my favorite Nascar driver for several years and they were the only parts store I would go to because they supported my driver. And he had one of the best looking cars on the track with that paint scheme

[@MsDisneylandlover]

The sad thing bc the 99 cent closed recently the store next to i think in my neighborhood rite aid nothing is in there hardly smh. Bc ppl r buying things up bc they can't shop at the 99 store anymore so rite aid cant keep nothing in stock or dont plan to replace nothing smh. They said they were going to try to save some of the stores smh. Well my store location didn't get saved smh.

[@JeffMeadowsOutdoors]

I knew a few of those you mentioned. We may miss them, but bringing them back would never work out. What we would end up with is new owners selling the same stuff as all other new stores while using an old name.

[@DaveTheRred]

As a kid, We lived in Pittsburgh, I remember my mother, aunt and grandmother shopped at GC Murphy. Good memories.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching and sharing one that you and your family shopped at.

[@CoquettishDrunk]

I always love your videos but this one really tugged at my heart strings. The poster you showed for Sprouse Reitz (grand opening at the Cherry Plaza in Meridian) was the exact store my mom worked at the early 80s. Thank you again for the wonderful trip down memory lane.

[@RhettyforHistory]

You're welcome and that is interesting to hear that your mom worked at that exact same one. Thank you for watching CoquettishDrunk!

[@gulfgypsy]

Even before Dress Barn there was Mode O'Day and Anita's for women's fashions.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching and telling us about both of those gulfgypsy!

[@gulfgypsy]

@@RhettyforHistory Thank you, Rhetty for the great videos! They're like little trips in a time machine -- fun & appreciated!

[@jcbulldog533]

We had a Fashion Bug & a Fashion Gal here in St.Louis in the 70's & 80's Fashion Bug had just a bit better quality than Fashion Gal all women's clothing only