TWO GUYS - Life in America

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[@rhuephus]

ANY time a company is sold to "investors", might as well call it quits. The "investors" will steal all the money and strip everything. That's what happened to Sears

[@SilverGorilla1776]

Was going to post same comment. Beat me to it. That seems to be what happens to all companies at some point.

[@dant4802]

A legal “bust out”

[@syxepop]

Sounded pretty much familiar... That's what Vulture Eddie Lampert (his HEDGE FUND game has always been in "distressed assets") has done with Kmart (~10 stores left) and Sears (~20 stores left) and has taken OVER 15 YEARS to "suck them over"...

[@Shawn666Hellion]

Same thing happened to Art Van Furniture in metro Detroit,it's a 100% guaranteed that when a corporation buys a a small business they deliberately and knowingly ruin it

[@matthewobrien4639]

Yep! Purchase a company for 10% of it's value with the promise of paying it off over the next decade or so. So then the first thing you do is max out all the good credit the company has earned over the years. Then you start selling off assets while never investing any money into improvements. All the while, you pay the CEO a few million bucks a year for "improving" the bottom line through real estate sales of the properties that have been in the company for years or decades. Finally, lay off all the loyal employees without a days notice and cancel all their pensions, and then declare bankruptcy and walk away, not caring that you have destroyed an institution for your own personal gain. This is actually a Mafia practice that was started in the 20s, 30s, but was so successful that Wall Street adopted it for their own benefit by the 60s, 70s. Cause you know, "Greed is Good!"

[@iVenge]

I swear, the 1950s through the 1970s were just the greatest time to be alive in America.

[@johnwest5458]

Stop reminding me of that. Thats true but so very very sad, those days are long gone.

[@erc1971erc1971]

I have always said the 50's through the 80's were the best - after that, our culture began a downhill slide.

[@mariantreber8055]

I think we CAN bring back the fun. Too bad I'm getting old now. 😂 We have surprises on the horizon!

[@davidjohnston330]

My father worked for Two Guys part time in the evenings. When it was closing time he swept the floors in seasonals & toys Man o man, did I get lots of Matchbox & Hot Wheels that were opened by kids in the store. The cars were wrote off and tossed in the compactor. My dad got permission to bring them home. Those were the days. 😎😎

[@azmike1]

Where are the Matchbox cars now?

[@davidjohnston330]

Long gone, I was 10 at the time. I’m 61 now.

[@Arturo-sm1tb]

@@davidjohnston330 LOL...parents loved to toss out our old toys and memories without hesistation. They had no sense there would be an Ebay or market for those items at antique stores. Those cars would be worth lots of money today. I had the same experience. My worst example was a pair of original Nike running shoes from 1974 in pretty good condition, that today sell for thousands...my father tossed them out when I went to college.

[@gregorymorrone7966]

my dad bought me the matchbox beatles yellow sub at the pennsauken 2 guys.

[@geralderdek282]

Boy were you a lucky kid!! I loved matchbox cars!! My favorite was a silver '58 caddilac.

[@Lifeisshortby]

“Those 2 bastards from Harrison “ What a great badge of honor

[@matrox]

4:09 Anyone else remember when names like Kenner, Hasbro, Mattel, Parker Brothers and Ideal were all famous names for toys and or games.

[@charlenelewinski7815]

And coleco...they had the best games...

[@mrzabie0138]

I worked at Two Guys in Delran NJ for a few months in the spring of 1978 in the maintenence department. I buffed floors and replaced light bulbs and other stuff. Minimum wage (2.50 hr.) but had full health care on day one. My, times have changed!

[@bigloo609]

Loved going to Two Guys! I can still remember the layout of the store in my town. They had everything: sporting goods, record albums, snack bar, shoes, clothes, cameras, tvs and appliances. And the grocery store... back when people smoked inside, there would be cigarette butts mashed on the floor. The bananas were on a tiered display covered in fake green grass. I can still see it all in my mind.

[@karenryder6317]

The one thing I really liked about shopping for clothes at TGs was that all the racks were straight. Once you found, say ladies' slacks, ALL THE SLACKS THEY OFFERED WERE HANGING RIGHT THERE--none of this going around the corner to multiple kiosks or numerous shelf racks or hunting along the back wall. Just go up one side of the rack and down the other. Shopping was much more efficient until dept. stores decided to try to be upscale by looking more decorative instead.

[@AldermanFredCDavis]

The Two Guys I used to go to as a child, with my parents in New Jersey, had an arcade......and a decent-sized one at that. I recall a bowling alley with flip up pins, an air hockey game, and pinball machines.

[@JudgeJulieLit]

@@AldermanFredCDavis The flagship (or first supersized) store in Kearny? Vast parking lot?

[@oddjobz9858]

I was very very young but remember everything about the motif of the store here in Menands,NY

[@josephsantana6938]

@@AldermanFredCDavis me too we lived in NY and on Saturday would go with my brothers and parents stay there the whole day and bring tons of groceries for 100 dollars I'll say like 14 bags of groceries.Best time of our life's.

[@chrislim7976]

I wish I was old enough to live and appreciate this era. Seemed like a simpler, polite, more genuine time.

[@SamhainBe]

Two Guys was a great store ! I'm still using a Garcia Mitchell 300 rod and reel combo I bought there back in 1972. Good prices, good quality, what America was and should be today!

[@geyser3445]

Two Guys was my favorite store of all time. Had a good trains, RC car, and auto dept. I actually worked there for a short time during the summer of 1976. Always looked forward to their Sunday circular.

[@cmans79tr7]

Pete Nebber - Aack! You just brought back a memory that I have fogotten! As a kid I delivered Two Guys circulars door to door in my neighborhood. They were delivered to my parent's house, I had to open the wired bales, fold them, then insert them into plastic bags. I had a huge green canvas padded shoulder bag stuffed full of them. My parents would not let me have a daily paper route because they saw what *their* siblings went through with a real paper route. I think I got 3 cents per circular delivered (circa 1969) , and I can't remember how many I delivered, probably less than 100. I *HATED* how inky my hands got from handling those things.

[@larryhutton8776]

RC cars in the 50s, hhhhmmmm don't remember that

[@malcolmschnauzer1054]

Two Guys had the BEST toy department!!! It was right next to their "seasonal" department. In the warmer months, you could smell the chlorine coming from the swimming pools they sold....Pools and patio furniture in the spring/summer, Christmas trees and holiday decorations in the fall/winter. The other side of the toy department was the "record" department. When they expanded and opened the grocery store, we went every week. We shopped in Kearny. I can still see that glass front and the zig-zag of escalators like it was yesterday. When they went out of business in the 80's, my high-school friends and I went there to buy make-up. The entire store was reduced so low, you could buy things for a quarter. After the Kearny location closed, the building was used for a flea market. Eventually, they tore the buildings down and now a Marshalls is there. It was a great place to go to as a child. Right across the street was "Bunny Land". It was kind of like a zoo/playground. After thousands of complaints about wild animals in small cages, the A.S.P.C.A. closed Bunny Land down. I collect vintage toys and dolls now and every now and then I'll buy something that has an original "Two Guys" price tag on it. Children today have no idea what they missed....

[@bobwigg761]

I grew up in Kearny and lived within walking distance of that store surrounded by the other Congolium Nairn factory buildings there. That Toy Department was the best, I went to Bunnyland regularly and sledding down the adjacent hills at Vets Field when it snowed. That Marshall’s store replaced the Channel Home store located there previously. That building originally contained the Two Guys Food Department after it was relocated from inside the main building which was torn down in 1991. I took photos of that demolition. A one story building originally housing a supermarket was built in its place.

[@slikster4life]

Miss this place the most as a kid...my mom would go to one in Newark N.J. downtown and my favorite one in Kearny N.J. 3 floors to explore and especially during 🎄!!!!

[@trainsntile]

I remember the Two Guys on route 46 in Totowa. Home Depot now occupies the land. I was 5, maybe 6 years old (1963, 1964) & standing on the hump behind the front seat looking out the windshield of my mom's 1960 Mercury Comet (WHAT seatbelts?). My mom, my Oma & I went grocery shopping every Sunday. Mom drove from Hawthorne (Lafayette Ave R to Wagaraw Rd R to Paterson, E. Main St to Presidential Blvd, up Ryle Ave to Totowa Rd L to Union Blvd & onto 46W to the store. I remember being put into the child seat of the shopping cart while food & necessities were put in the cart behind me. Before we hit the registers, my Oma took me out of the cart to play the bowling machine! What FUN!!! I often wondered why there was rope around the entire clothing department. "Blue Laws"- no clothing sold on Sunday! After checkout, I was lifted back into the shopping cart. We went through the parking lot & the groceries were loaded into the trunk. I scooted back onto the hump for the ride home. FOND memories

[@monicaqueenan9985]

I thought "blue laws" applied to selling alcohol on Sunday, not clothing. Might have been stores not opening at all on Sundays...a Massachusetts thing until the 1970s.

[@petemavus2948]

trainsntile Your comment had me grinning from ear to ear, I could picture it like I was riding the hump myself ! I remember doing that so I could hear and be heard by the adults up front.

[@susandunsmuir6610]

Born & raised in the area they originated from. We practically lived in 2Guys! Shop Rite Supermarkets also came from that Kearny/Harrison area. So many great memories 💕

[@jpturner171]

Wow what a blast from the past! I worked as a kid at Two Guys in East Hanover New Jersey.. my older brother worked there and met his wife there as well! Thank you for the great memories!

[@summerrose4286]

"Sold to investors" usually sounds the death knell.

[@ShortBusScotty]

The things I remember about 2 Guys was the carpeted ladies department, ropes around the departments that were closed due to Blue Laws. The cheap record albums. Most of all is the miss sized clothes. I think they bought factory seconds. There was also the Mocking, "Where did you get that... 2 Guys?"

[@richiec7602]

I was going to comment on the Blue Laws but you beat me to it. Ahh, memories!

[@dukenukem1031]

2 Bastards from Harrison? LOL, that is hilarious. Shopped there for years during my high school and college years, I never knew that name! Another awesome video jam packed with information...

[@timmmahhhh]

Never heard of this store in Indiana but this is hilarious. On their theme of low prices had they been able to use this name, they could have used the slogan "and two of the cheapest ones you'll ever meet!"

[@OlWolf1011]

Had me belly-laff over that! 😂

[@valerierogers9609]

Only some jersey boys could come up with that name 😊

[@trentpettit6336]

@@timmmahhhh Do you remember TOPPS stores in Indiana though? Or what about KORVETTES stores? Also what about VENTURE stores?

[@timmmahhhh]

@@trentpettit6336 I remember Venture stores but not Topps or Korvettes.

[@geralderdek282]

Always loved going to two guys! We'd go to the east Brunswick store in nj. In the mid 60s,you could let your kid out of sight and not worry. I'd spend alot of time in the toy dept. While mom shopped.

[@davidforce5617]

I grew up in East Brunswick in the 60s. Went there many times. Probably bumped into you a time or two. I lived on Joseph st.

[@GardenerEarthGuy]

Went there as a kid! Didn't Crazy Eddie's take it over?

[@geralderdek282]

I lived a bit further away in millstone. Even farther now. Living in florida since 76.

[@davidforce5617]

Been to Millstone a time or two. I think Crazy Eddie's did take over. I've been living in Georgia for 5 years since I retired . Jersey ain't like it was when we were kids now.

[@geralderdek282]

Don't know about crazy eddies .Sounds familiar though

[@marcieconant5559]

I remember Two Guys. They had everything! My mother used to take me there for school clothing and supplies in the 60s and 70s. It was a great store for the whole family. Thank you for the memories. 😁

[@bobwigg761]

I lived within walking distance of the Kearny, NJ Two Guys in the ‘60s and ‘70s. It opened in 1957, and it always felt like it was the Flagship Store. Some photos of it were shown in your video. A 3 story factory building made into a department store with escalators in front. It had a food department from day one, and that was where my family shopped for groceries. A Shop Rite was later built nearby, so to better compete, a new wing was added to expand and relocate the food department into its own space. The rest of the departments were prohibited from conducting sales on Sundays due to the blue laws at the time. That store was ahead of its time, well before Walmart. It had everything, many many memories associated with that store. It closed in 1982, became an Indoor Flea Market, then a TSS Seedmans store. The main 3 story building was torn down in 1991, but the building that housed the food department is still used for retail to this day.

[@michaelgoodhand2313]

Loved Two Guys - bought match box, model cars, slot cars and model rail roads there. Then moved on to clothes and albums. I even bought my first guitar for $9.88 with a coupon from the weekly circular. We mostly went to Watchung, but occasionally went to East Hannover and Union. I know we stopped at some other locations over the years.

[@kwgm8578]

Every August for almost 10 years my Mom would drag me out to Two Guys (from Harrison) to buy new "school clothes". It was a ritual I always hated, as it took me away from activities of greater importance like playing baseball. Looking prosperous (something they called "neat and clean" at the time) was very important in middle class America in the 50s and 60s. There was a phrase used then that you don't hear any more, though it is done today in a big way : "keeping up with the Joneses." That's what new school clothes meant to the WWII generation. Today, to some it means spending $50 grand on your daughter's wedding. That's one reason I miss the world of my youth. There are many more that have nothing to do with commerce. Thanks for your nostalgic videos. Some, like this one, resonate with a part of me I'd long forgotten.

[@vincentp.locollo3343]

REMEMBER IT WELL! BEING A PORTLY KID I REMEMBER THE WORD. HUSKY. ON THE RACK!!! THE SALESMAN SAYING AAHH!! I SEE YOUR BOY IS. HUSKY!!¡

[@valerierogers9609]

I'm with you. Country sucks today. People gone nuts, turn on you.

[@3mtech]

Average and "middle class" not same

[@kwgm8578]

@@vincentp.locollo3343 Vince,when I got older,I lost that fat,and was always tall and thin until age 30 when I quit smoking. I fight the weight still,but at 68, the weight won. I am again husky! Best wishes.

[@kwgm8578]

@@valerierogers9609 Hang in there, Valerie. Yes, greed and evil have had a grasp on the world. Be kind to your neighbors. Teach how it once was,and what it can be again.

[@earlt.7573]

WOW---- Just WOW--- Two Guys in Hagerstown Md. was THE place to go when I was a kid, they had it ALL !!! GREAT model train section, and the after Christmas sales were the time to load up on train stuff. Great arcade for kids, they even had a duck pin mini bowling alley. Darn that place was fun. Great memories.

[@trentpettit6336]

Do you remember the NICHOLS store which was there later, or the PHAR-MOR which was there after that? Also remember when BIG LOTS was in part of the building?

[@lucky5853]

I used to work for Two Guys in Kearny, N.J. ,auto department as a mechanic, doing wheel alignment and balancing, tune ups, oil changes from '76 until 1980 when I found a better job, but I loved the place, we had a carwash in the back ,thank you for the memories.

[@Im2Old4ThisShite]

Had a two guys on street road (yes, street road) in bucks County PA in the 70's. I was 10 years old and for whatever reason, I stole a cap gun and got caught. The store "detective" took me in the back, scared the hell out of me and told me to go home and tell my parents that I got caught stealing. Needless to say my mother learned of this incident decades later and I never stole a damn thing again.

[@rosaliecowhey5868]

Yes I'm from bucks county I remember that store

[@petemavus2948]

My sister stole a skirt at Valley Fair Department Store and my mom sent it back to the store with an anonymous letter of apology !!!

[@larryhutton8776]

The scare kept you from a life of crime.

[@petemavus2948]

@@larryhutton8776 He was 'packing' without a license or receipt and as far as " a life of crime " he became an officer of the law. J/K

[@larryhutton8776]

@@petemavus2948 probably true

[@joemmac]

My parents did all their shopping (including food) at the Two Guys on the Black Horse Pike in Atlantic City. I even remember how the store was laid-out. The building is still there being used by the City for city services.

[@edmatlack2187]

I remember that store on the BHP IN west AC, always there with my mom

[@trentpettit6336]

Do you remember when SAM'S CLUB was in that building? I know it was a Sam's Club (for a short time, in the early 90's?) before the current Sam's Club in Pleasantville was built. Also do you remember the JM FIELDS store (which later was a BRADLEES store) in Ventnor not far away? There also was a BRADLEES in Egg Harbor Township across from Shore Mall (which has since been renamed to Harbor Square)

[@GJM866]

Ours was in Totowa NJ. Sometimes, around the house, I can still find an item that we bought there, with the Two Guys price sticker still on it.

[@BillyLapTop]

I remember when they built it in 1957 and the lines of cars coming off of Route 46 trying to pull into the place. They were a big deal back then.

[@GJM866]

@@BillyLapTop So cool! I was a kid in the 70's and remember the sign out front. We live in Lincoln Park, so it was right next door.

[@terrylopez5452]

Two Guys in Totowa had a really great jewelry department and an indoor carousel! Lastly, I remember “Miss Kitty” from the Snack Bar. Good times.

[@mikemarkowski7609]

As a kid my family would frequent the Totowa, N.J. store. I have fond memories of that store, especially the well stocked toy department.I remember specific toys acquired there. Simpler, better times, never to return!

[@jamessuffecool8762]

Yes, tons of HO trains & accessories.

[@BillyLapTop]

Any recollections about Great Eastern Mills?

[@waynemizer4912]

@@BillyLapTop Yes, on Route 46 west in Little Falls?

[@BillyLapTop]

@@waynemizer4912 Yep! Between Two Guys and Great Eastern, that was the retail hub for the area until they built the Willow Brook Mall. Really put Paterson out of business. Had my first slice of pizza at the Totowa Drive In movie in the 1950's too.

[@roseprevost8081]

My mom worked for Two Guys for years. I fondly remember the ones near me. It was where I went for my View-Master reels. I also remember the sawdust on the hockey-puck bowling game they had in the little arcade, and being scared of the submarine shooting game (I still don't know why).

[@kevinsmith5288]

I loved going to Two Guys as a kid! My mom and sister would go their way, I would always head straight to the record department, where I would pick up the latest "Big Hit Survey " from WHYN AM in Springfield Ma. Down the road was another long gone department store, Zayre's. Loved them both!

[@geralderdek282]

I'd totally forgotten zayres!

[@Sistahgirl42]

Yup...on Boston Road!

[@charlenelewinski7815]

Remember the 2 lane electronic bowling alley??

[@45vinyljunkie]

Yes, the Two Guys in/near Springfield, Mass., had a great record department. We'd go to Two Guys on our way home from the Eastfield Mall.

[@beautifulmusic7705]

Thought I was the only one who remembered Two Guys on Boston Road. It had the best toy department. Zayres' was across the street and down the road. Other long gone places were Abdows Big Boy, Burger Chef, Kings in the old Indian motorcycle factory. Downtown had Steigers, Forbes & Wallace, Johnson book store. Sears was across the bridge in West Springfield until they moved to the Eastfield Mall.

[@kevinbuja4373]

I remember going to 2 Guys in Rochester, NY, and then their subsequent closing. In fact, the church I went to, was looking at buying one of the closed buildings to use for the school; that was back in 1982.

[@thebrinx9632]

Location later became a Heckingers (sp?) lumber/hardware and then later still, and currently is a Walmart. Guess it hasnt changed all that much afterall.

[@hectorheathcote9495]

My dad worked at the two guys in Totowa, NJ in the late 60's as the sporting goods department manager. Many fond memories of going there with my mom to shop and visit dad at work.

[@sabrinapittsley2304]

I used to go to Two Guys a lot during the late 60’s and 70’s in Western Massachusetts. I also wondered who these Two Guys were. Now, I know. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

[@Foxonian]

That must have been the Fairfield Mall store in Chicopee Ma. That was the one I always went to.

[@Raoul33]

There was also one in Springfield on Boston Rd

[@45vinyljunkie]

@@Raoul33 That was the Two Guys my parents would take us to after we were done shopping at the Eastfield Mall.

[@sabrinapittsley2304]

@@Foxonian Yes, it was, and I remembered Bradlee’s being there, too. I think Caldor,’s might have been in that same mall at some time. I grew up in Belchertown.

[@trentpettit6336]

@@Foxonian Did you go to the BRADLEES which was there afterwards?

[@CityToTheWoods]

I worked security at the North Bergen New Jersey store for several years until they closed. I'm still friends with the guys that I worked with today, just shared this video to the Two Guys Facebook group.

[@chriswright8464]

We had one in East Brunswick NJ. RT 18. GREAT TOY DEPARTMENT AND HOBBY.

[@melissabibby7310]

Never heard of this store! But it looked like a great place to shop!

[@marryingabroad9387]

It was the WalMart of the 1970's. Supermarket and clothes and automotive, and arts and crafts, stationary, bicycles, toys, appliances, TV's, pharmacy. Exactly like WalMarts of today.

[@rsprockets7846]

AS A KID WE HAD ONE A FEW BLOCKD=S FROM HOUSE CHRISTMAS DAY 1964 AFTER I GOT MY MONEY I WALKED AS A 9 YR OLD TO STORE AND BOUGHT SLOT CAR PARTS AND CARS FOR 10 BUCKS LEAVING 10 CENTS TO CALL HOME FOR DAD TO PICK ME UP WE WERE NEVER TOLD TO CROSS HIGHWAY BUT I DID BOY DID I GET IN TROUBLE

[@bonnieramirez2860]

It was

[@rsprockets7846]

@@marryingabroad9387 our state had blue laws and forced closure of cameras clothes electronics etc because of puritainical shoppers

[@cynthiablodgett1882]

Shopped there as a child. Got the best 45s for cheap. Fond memories of Christmas shopping.

[@journeytothemosthigh5021]

In the 70s my friend told me a joke…” Macy’s and Bamburgers had a fight, who broke it up?”…”Two Guys!”🙂 we’ve seen the commercials but never been.

[@Arturo-sm1tb]

Never heard that joke. But I certainly lived in the world of Two Guys, Korvettes, Bambergers and Epstein's Dept. Stores in the Morristown, NJ area...

[@petemavus2948]

Alexander's too!

[@valerierogers9609]

Oh, yes. I Remember Bambergers.

[@petemavus2948]

And Packard Bamberger's Supermarket in Hackensack

[@jeffreyrigged]

this is one i never heard of

[@RazorFoxDV]

My parents lived in Buffalo in the late 1970s and were regular Two Guys shoppers. Each year, I still go over to help them put up the Christmas tree and a lot of the ornaments are stored in their original boxes, many of which came from Two Guys and still have Two Guys price stickers on them.

[@karenryder6317]

As the narrator said it was really a unique thing to be able to buy clothes and electronics in the same store. I think that's why I have such a vivid recollection of my aunt buying an electric Vornado fan from there 70 years ago.

[@birdsfan57]

As a kid in the 60's, I bought all of my 45's there (from Gary Puckett and the Union Gap to Jefferson Airplane, to the Monkees) and all of my Monkees albums ( in Mono, as opposed to Stereo, because in order to play them in stereo, one needed one of those huge stereo/tv consoles, which they also sold, but were out of reach for my parents...so we played them on the old record player). Bought a late 60's edition Barbie there, as well as shoes and clothing. Oh, and my most lasting memory consists of leaving the store one evening only to discover that someone had stolen my father's car...needless to say, THAT stands as my LEAST fondest memory of Two Guys...

[@user-jl1dy7il4k]

I truly Loved the woodbridge store as a kid , Great toys and hobbies , almost 70 now.😄

[@dobrofool]

Wow. This is hilarious. I just remember Two Guys as a landmark establishment when I was a little kid. We had one on Wolcott Road in Waterbury, CT for many years. Quite honestly, I always thought they were just a one time no brand store which finally dimmed out with the times. I never knew they were part of a national chain. All I know is people in the Waterberry area can date themselves if they know Two Guys, Grants, or even McCoreys! This was crazy enlightening! Thanks for digging into this tiny corner of history! I’m ALWAYS mentioning Two Guys when chatting about the old days, so this is really special!

[@timlevis3630]

It was the same way for me ,our store was just a moderate building with what I always thought was off brand goods. It closed it's doors in the late 70's.

[@karenryder6317]

When I was 13 in 1956, I bought my first dress by myself with my babysitting money at W.T. Grant in Schenectady. It cost $10 which was a bargain even then. I can't believe the percentage of inflation that has occurred over the years.

[@trentpettit6336]

Did the old Two Guys in Waterbury become a BRADLEES after Two Guys went out of business?

[@dobrofool]

@@trentpettit6336 No. Waterbury only had one (or two?) Bradlees that I recall, and the thing back then was to have it directly connected to a grocery store. My grandmother worked at the one on Reidville Drive. One main entrance to mezzanine, go left to Bradlees, go right to (Stop and Shop?) which is still there to this day. After Two Guys closed I think it became an Edwards Grocery (?)

[@sandriagutierrez2605]

We had one in Newark, NJ where I grew up. My mom purchased all her furniture from Two Guys. Washers, dryers, mattresses. We always believed that retail theft from within was the down fall of Two Guys. Sad to see them go, but so went Bambergers,S Klein, Haines. Nice trip through memory lane! Thanks

[@cmans79tr7]

Sandria G - Yes, someone i went to high school with, worked at Two Guys and I will never forget one day he showed me two jump ropes wrapped around his ankles when he was walking out. I told him that I was not impressed. I later learned he was robbing them blind as an employee.

[@slikster4life]

Grew up in Newark too...Kearny/Harrison Two Guys was my favorite...

[@deedeejackson8244]

TWO GUYS was on Belair Road in Baltimore, Maryland when I was a kid. It was our favorite. It had an amusement department with a bowling alley and other amusement attractions.

[@roseprevost8081]

I remember that one. I think it's a big international store now. The one in Glen Burnie became the basis for a small strip shopping center (it was remodeled and subdivided) of a Pep Boys, sushi place and dollar store.

[@dougcook5167]

I also remember the Two Guys in Towson, MD on Goucher Blvd. and Prince Road. The building where the department store and integrated supermarket is still there, made up of a Staples, Sprouts supermarket, and Kirkland Home Goods. Interestingly, right across the street was the local Montgomery Ward, another lost relic of the era.

[@cwilson6990]

Thank you ! never had 2 guys here in Tennessee. , Kmart Sears we always went Sears for Kenmore Appliances

[@richbreton5105]

We frequently shopped at Two Guys in New London, CT. I still have nice model trains and hobby tools I bought there in the mid 70's. Great store!

[@silentrage8982]

👍Yup. I Remember Two Guys at the New London Mall as well. Always was in the game room.🕹

[@michaelschue22]

Going to Two Guys in Rochester, NY in the late sixties was one of my fondest memories. My grandmother use to take me there to buy chemicals for my chemistry set. They had an awesome hobby section and an area that sold all kinds of chemistry related items. Where else could a kid go and buy a small glass jar of Tannic Acid or Copper Sulfate! Loved that store.

[@trentpettit6336]

Did that Two Guys building become a Wegmans after Two Guys closed?

[@michaelschue22]

@@trentpettit6336 No - pretty sure it turned into a Walmart Superstore

[@JudgeJulieLit]

A Gillette chemistry set (was there any other brand)? Tannic acid ... perhaps if one lets tea in a cup dry out ... .

[@markcantemail8018]

@@michaelschue22 The Store at Todd Mart Plaza . Was that a Two Guys ?

[@michaelschue22]

@@markcantemail8018 Not sure. I know there was a store in Henrietta ( it's a Kohls now ) I believe. Todd Mart Plaza was where Scotch & Sirloin used to be right? The Kohl's is near West Henrietta and Jefferson Road so that wouldn't be Todd Mart Plaza.

[@chrisneilson7221]

I remember Dad taking us to the one in Woodbridge NJ in the early 60's. Back then NJ had no sales tax, so for us NYers it meant even more savings.

[@JudgeJulieLit]

New Jersey still has no sales tax on clothing, but New York State and City do.

[@tommyb1396]

The Two Guys store in our town was paired up with the food store Pantry Pride. The two stores were joined by an inside walkway where I think I remember they had barrels of pickles.

[@sandihooyman4977]

I forgot about Pantry Pride. Our Two Guys was in Goleta, CA. What’s a Goleta? It used to be the largest unincorporated city by Santa Barbara. Finally became a real city a couple of decades back. Prior to Two Guys it was Disco Faire.

[@MrHans818]

I worked for Two Guys for three years and pretty much loved it. Sad part even in the middle late 70s it didn't pay enough for a man with a wife and child. But what I learned at Two Guys in management training carried me all the way though my working years. My son even took his first steps in the domestics dept. He is now 47. It was a place I have always missed. Much of the building has been broken up into smaller stores but the biggest part is now Ollies and has been for years now. For two season our store had it own softball team team that was really not connected with the store. Our Two Guys in Dundalk Md. was pretty much one big happy family managers and employees.

[@kevinpyne5808]

This brings back memories. I remember and shopped at the Two Guys in Lawnside NJ. It is now a Home Depot. No memories of any grocery section. Such good times way back in the 70's and 80's.

[@gregggoss2210]

Same one I used to go to. My dad bought quite a few sporting goods there. Pretty sure they sold guns and ammo. The thing I remember the most was at the front of the store. They had a long bank of bubble gum and toy trinket vending machines. I always made sure I had change when I went there.

[@geece1]

That was my local Two Guys also! Good times as a kid

[@gregggoss2210]

Also remember Korvettes in the Black Horse Pike shopping center in Mt. Ephraim.

[@ManSeekingTruth1]

@@gregggoss2210 I worked at the Vineland, NJ store in the sporting goods department. Yes, they did sell guns and ammo. We had a gun room in the back store room where we kept everything with samples behind the front counter in a glass cabinet.

[@gregggoss2210]

@@ManSeekingTruth1 , I thought I remember the guns and ammo section. When I was cleaning out my dad's house after he passed, I found boxes of 30-06 with the Two Guys price tag on them.

[@Daledavispratt]

How often was that story repeated: A business did fantastic while it remained under the founder's control and original view only to fail once control passed to people who were simply interested in cashing in...it has happened so many times.

[@earlt.7573]

Yep, story of America, darn shame

[@BWowed]

Great memories of Two Guys in Totowa, NJ.

[@OofusTwillip]

Their commercials were all over local Buffalo TV stations, in the 1970s and 80s.

[@charlestait5303]

My recollection was “2 Guys from Harrison” on route US46 in little falls NJ

[@bigkahuna6277]

I vividly remember Two Guys, when I was a kid my father would always stop at one of their early store on the way from NYC to northern NJ. I remember they would have a tailgate auction out if a trailer in the parking lot on weekends. Years later probably in the 70s the Dover NJ store was my go to place for everything. I still remember when that store was going out of business, the incredible markdowns they had till the store was empty. I believe that space was taken over eventually by another defunct store, Jamesway. So many other great stores that are history now like Caldor and W. T. Grants. Great video brings back good memories….Thanks

[@cordeliabuffy6419]

Holy crap! I have the weirdest memory of the Two Guys sign from like very early childhood. Then towards the end of the video I see my old hometowns name. So it wasn't just some fake memory, it was a real memory. Very cool, thanks for the video, now I know my memory was real.

[@marcchatow9516]

🎶🎵 I remember a TWO GUYS commercial from the 70's. It went like this, "Thousands of savings at Two Guys. No matter what you're looking for. You're gonna find it at Two Guys Discount Department Store!" 🎵🎶😊

[@ManSeekingTruth1]

Great video! My first job was at Two Guys in Vineland, NJ. I started in December of 1972 and worked there almost 5 years. Sporting goods and pets department. Many great memories from that job.

[@dizzysdoings]

That's the one we went to when I was a kid. Now there's a Walmart there.

[@rebcol4926]

I remember shopping at Two Guys in Maryland in the mid 70's when I was a young teen. I loved shopping there. I could not get over the grocery store side of it.

[@CD318]

Love what you do and thanks for creating these videos for all of us!

[@shenandoahrefrigeration5782]

I remember going to the Two Guys in Hagerstown Maryland. It also had a duck pin size bowling alley in the back. Such great memories.

[@Arturo-sm1tb]

Ah yes, the tiny bowling alley....I remember that too in the Watchung, NJ store. YES indeed, thanks for spurring my memory.

[@jeffdougan491]

I still have a pair of Panasonic walkie-talkies my parents bought from Two Guys for my 10th birthday in 1967. I miss that store!

[@chaosdemonwolf1]

I remember two guys, and udisco, white front, fedco..............

[@SoapinTrucker]

White Front kind of rings a bell, or maybe we had a Yellow Front? (Southern California)

[@billchambersmarquez1964]

I remember the white front store in azusa California

[@peppereater3028]

We had a 2 Guys in San Bernardino back in the 70's. I remember going there with my mother when I was a kid. We would play Skee Ball in the store while our mother shopped. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

[@thomaslucas6079]

I was a really small boy when they were in operation. I was dragged from one store to another by my mom I'm not complaining I have really good memories of it. one store is pretty much like another to a small boy I could have been there and never knew it. lol

[@birdsfan57]

The one thing that ALL of those "off price" department stores had in common back then was their lack of "ambiance". From Two Guys, to Grants, to E.J. Korvettes, to Garwoods..what they lacked in " frills", they made up for with the abundance of childhood memories they provided us 60's "kids". Grants had the best hot dogs (even though I think most times, they were spinning on that contraption for most of the day, before we had the pleasure of partaking of them later in the evening, when we and our parents usually visited the store).

[@LawyerCalhoun1]

In 1953 I was a 6 year old living in Newark NJ and my father worked in Harrison for RCA. He bought me a Lionel train set at 2 Guys from Harrison for 80% off. I remember the store was total chaos, but everything was highly discounted.

[@mjbull5156]

My grandfather took me to Two Guys often so I could play the bowling arcade game they hadwhich used small plastic balls on a slightly raised platforms in their two Buffalo, NY locations. I still remember the gutters in the Amherst store game were blue and the Cheektowaga store game were pink.

[@FutureZek]

I remember that game in the Cheektowaga store! I was only7 maybe 5 or 6, and always thought I made that up in my head! Thanks for confirming that memory.

[@johnwalker6121]

My parents were always going to Two Guys in Broomall Pa, they use to shop at E J Korvette but Two Guys had better selections and a larger store. Remember the Vornado line of appliances. Still have the reel-to-reel tape recorder and pair of 1 watt walkie-talkies purchased @ Two Guys.

[@krisrhood2127]

I remember that Two Guys. I used to live in Broomall PA

[@robertb5922]

I grew up in the neighborhood behind that store and my dad still lives there. What was amazing to me is that Two Guys had a back entrance that could be accessed from the neighborhood. They had a stand-alone automotive center too. There was a lower parking lot on the other side of the A&P. I only saw it used during the Christmas season, but was a good place to learn to drive.

[@krisrhood2127]

I remember the automotive center

[@markjohnstone2578]

I could walk to that store when I was a kid. I had to cross the pike. Loved the sporting goods department.

[@buzzdean7756]

I'm from California, never heard of them til now. Good stuff as always.

[@JSchaye]

My Dad did the liquidation. Today Vornado is a large real estate company.

[@michellejoy6752]

Being in Northern California, this made think of GEMCO. The GEMCO in my town had a Sambos on the opposite end of the parking lot. Across the street (the main drag) was our mall where the high end department store Weinstocks sat. (also shut down in the 80’s) I would love to see a GEMCO video and a Weinstocks video.

[@jd4810]

I had many fond memories as a child when my mom took me shopping at Two Guys. Ours was in Baltimore and it had a arcade with skee ball, pinball machines, coin operated rides for toddlers and a small diner with soda counter with fixed stools.

[@VNV67]

I remember this store in Glen Burnie, Maryland. It was on Ritchie Hwy. just south of the DMV. 1968

[@ruthlundy4497]

BOY this takes me back!!! .such a great piece of my growing up.

[@albeardsley5532]

Loved the Two Guys location in Broomall, Pa, just outside of Philadelphia. They always got the newest Beatles albums right away! Would walk 7 miles to buy the albums. What a time!

[@darthgrundle2349]

My families favorite place too shop growing up in the 60's and early 70's. Miss it very much. My Dad worked in the automotive department and would let me ride the mini bikes they sold in the parking lot. Some of the best times of my youth!!!

[@slim-oneslim8014]

Now THERE'S a great blast from the past! My grandparents and parents did a lot of shopping there. I remember, too, a lot of shopping for our "School clothes" in late August. I love this channel for so many great memories from a time that'll never be again.

[@keithkarbel2000]

I was going through some old stuff when my Mom was moving to live with my sister, and I found a Two Guys price tag on one of the items. We had a store up the avenue when I was a kid in PA. Memories.

[@uncleremus64]

Born in 1964, I remember Two Guys well. I still have dreams about going there. When I was 4 - 7 or 8 years old, it was my favorite thing to do. We shopped in Jersey City on 440, and in Hackensack on 17N by Essex Ave. I remember buying my first records there too at around 12 or 13.

[@scottjaskower240]

I don’t know how this video showed up on my KZbin, but it brings back huge memories of when I lived in New Jersey as a child in the 1960s. My fathers favorite places to shop were two guys, EJ Corvettes, and Great Eastern. I can still vividly remember going through the two guys store in Watchung New Jersey. There were so many departments, appliances, furniture, records, cameras, TVs, clothes, etc. It seemed like a huge store to a young child, especially when you were looking for your parents. I do not remember groceries at the store, however.

[@FranklySpeaking.]

*Two Guys in my NJ hometown ... it was THE place to go for **_everything!_** as a kid the store was a playground. got all my KISS albums & posters there. loved the place!*

[@dennisdaprile8837]

Bought all of my albums at 2 Guys in Woodbridge. Mono first, then eventually stereo. My parents did purchase Vornado appliances. "Thanks for the memories!"

[@jimdevilbiss9125]

I had forgotten about this company. Thanks for the remembering.

[@jimrapp6955]

I remember going to the Two Guys store as a kid in the 60's in Menands, NY, near Albany. The building still stands although I believe the state leased it and turned it into an office building. It's probably still owned by Vornado.

[@leewhite-graham753]

Hey! That's the one I went to as a kid and still pass on the way to St. Agnes Cemetary. Also when I go to Schulyer Bakery!!!

[@jimrapp6955]

@@leewhite-graham753 That's funny. We just happened to pass by the old store 2 days ago since we're here in the Albany area on vacation from the Philippines.

[@joeracer81]

The first time I ever went to two guys was when my dad moved to Santa Barbara in 1978. When I came to visit him they had a two guys in Goleta off of Hollister and Storke Road.I thought it was a pretty cool store,then when two guys went out it became Kmart and when Kmart went out now it's Target.

[@matthewobrien4639]

Never knew Food Giant was a chain out of California. We had several in Seattle at one point, I thought it was a local grocery store only. Thanks for the video!

[@glennso47]

There was a department store called Giant. It was a discount chain. Anyone remember it?

[@dustyspringfield7964]

I bought my first stereo at Two Guys in Watchung NJ in 1975. I was 14 and had saved money from my paper route to buy it. The store was a great place to go!

[@buster3rd]

2 guys in East Hanover they had everything if it broke you could bring it back no questions asked, they sold baby alligators, bowling balls, roller skates they sold it all, & Goody Hamburgers a cross the street on route 10

[@jenniferwilson9579]

Happy memories shopping at the Two Guys store in Towson, Maryland with my mom and grandmother in late 1960’s, and 1970’s.

[@QueensNativeNYC]

I remember the Two guys in New Hyde Park right on the Border of Queens NYC and Nassau county.. My aunt used to work there.. Great childhood memories there.. I was only about 10 years old when they closed down.. Nothing lasts forever

[@rick3747]

I am 55y. Here in Bethlehem, Two Guys had a store up until about 1981. There were a few Two Guys in Allentown too. Great supermarket, bakery, dept store, Stereos, records, tapes, hardware, car parts..... I miss this store! Great products, great prices and great workers!

[@rick3747]

@@smartalec1828 Awesome! My buddy's mom use to run the drive in the 80s until it closed so we got in free and of course drank and caused some minor mayhem. BTW....My aunt lived on Shakespeare for many decades so I spent tons of time there. I grew up on the West Side on 6th Ave.

[@christopherrutkowitz1350]

TWO GUYS North Arlington NJ the place to be in 1973! I was 5 years old and it was heaven.

[@AdamArchive2024]

Great story! I had never heard of this place before, but sounds like it was a great place to get almost everything you wanted.

[@itsjohndell]

I go back as a kid to the store in Harrison NJ. My family shopped there into the 80's in different locations. Never food but everything else. Until the brothers left they did it all well. Really hit a nerve on this one. Good job.

[@Sarasdad91]

Two Guys in South Gate California, is where i got to see the Brady Bunch in person signing autographs and promoting their Records. I was 11 years old. Food Giant is where I used to shop at with my Uncle. They used to give out S&H green stamps. I so miss those days.

[@DEEDEEGARRETT1]

I so love this channel ❤

[@denisec9231]

I remember shopping with my parents at Two Guys in Springfield, PA in 1968-69. It was fun to go there on a Friday night! EJ Korvette's too at the same location.

[@Lydiamr]

I worked at Two Guys in North Syracuse NY in the late 70’s. I worked in the clothing dept, we were one big happy family. Great memories!