Age yourself with a store no longer around

[Hardcore troubadour 15,118]

Just now, edjr said:

yes with Ames

Nice

[supermike80 1,865]

1 minute ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Is the one on the moon still open? 

Crap...I was too lazy

 

[Hardcore troubadour 15,118]

1 minute ago, supermike80 said:

Crap...I was too lazy

 

Join the club. 

[MTSkiBum 1,620]

Toys r us

 

[Mike Isles 583]

I was getting dressed on my wedding day and realized I didn’t own dress socks. Woolworth to the rescue. And I got a hot dog at the counter as well. 

[Mike Isles 583]

2 minutes ago, MTSkiBum said:

Toys r us

 

Playworld

[TimmySmith 2,782]

4 minutes ago, MTSkiBum said:

Toys r us

KB, FAO Schwartz.

Zayre.

BEST

[kutulu 1,664]

 Service Merchandise

Caldor's

[GutterBoy 2,898]

Two Guys

Bambergers

Caldor

Jamesway

Ground Round

Crazy Eddies

 

[Fireballer 2,641]

Peoples Drug

Drug Fair

Hechinger

[fandandy 3,313]

Hills

It was a department store when I was a kid in Marion Indiana.

 

[kutulu 1,664]

4 minutes ago, TimmySmith said:

FAO Schwartz.

I still have a pink panther stuffed animal from there that my pop got me when I was a kid.

[TimmySmith 2,782]

The Wiz

Circuit City

[Fireballer 2,641]

Aladdins Castle arcade

[Utilit99 4,099]

Thom McAn shoes. And Fotomat.

[Mike Isles 583]

10 minutes ago, TimmySmith said:

FAO Schwartz.

 

Not dead. 

[Hardcore troubadour 15,118]

Obama Fried Chicken

[Cloaca du jour 2,148]

Sambos

Lawsons

Red Barn

Western Sizzler

Saturn

Blockbuster

Hills dept store

[Hardcore troubadour 15,118]

What did Sambos sell? Please tell me it was chicken. 

[Fireballer 2,641]

Walden books

[Cloaca du jour 2,148]

1 minute ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

What did Sambos sell? Please tell me it was chicken. 

Like a Dennys they had chicken.  I think there is one left somewhere out west

[Cloaca du jour 2,148]

Babbages

[Fireballer 2,641]

Steak and Ale

[Mike Isles 583]

2 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

What did Sambos sell? Please tell me it was chicken. 

Little brown Sambos is what you were thinking or Hoping 

[Mike Isles 583]

Just now, Fireballer said:

Steak and Ale

Good one 

[Cloaca du jour 2,148]

2 minutes ago, Mike Isles said:

Little brown Sambos is what you were thinking or Hoping 

https://www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/marketing/last-remaining-sambos-finally-erases-its-name

It was a hybrid of the founders names.  Then someone wrote a book about some black kid sambo.  Ruined the business.

[Hardcore troubadour 15,118]

Roy Rogers, Kenny Rogers. 

[GutterBoy 2,898]

3 minutes ago, Cloaca du jour said:

Babbages

I worked here in High School.  They used to let us take games home and play with them, it was awesome.

[Utilit99 4,099]

Service Merchandise.

[Cloaca du jour 2,148]

Amway

[GutterBoy 2,898]

Linens N Things

Fotomat

Herman's Sporting Goods

[Mike Isles 583]

9 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Roy Rogers, Kenny Rogers. 

I think there is still a RR on the NJ Tpke. Around exit 10. It’s been about two years since I passed it. ##### Covid !!

45 mins from Fishtown 

[Hardcore troubadour 15,118]

6 minutes ago, Mike Isles said:

I think there is still a RR on the NJ Tpke. Around exit 10. It’s been about two years since I passed it. ##### Covid !!

45 mins from Fishtown 

On the NYS thruway too. That’s the only places they are now, on toll roads. 

[JustinCharge 2,397]

1 hour ago, Mike Isles said:

Woolworth 

wrong in all respects.  

1.  there are Woolworths retail stores in Australia.  They were never affiliated with the American F.W. Woolworth stores in the US though.  The name Woolworths was not trademarked in Australia so someone took the name and opened their own chain there.  But if you want to go to one in 2020, you can.

2.  the corporation actually still exists intact.  Corporations branch out and establish subsidiaries.  One of Woolworth's subsidiaries was Foot Locker.  The corporation never disappeared, they just changed their name to Foot Locker.  So if you want to go visit a Wooloworth corporation store that can trace its lineage to the original F W Woolworth stores, you can just go to a Foot Locker in 2020.  In fact, Foot Locker is considering branching out to establish retail stores again, so its possible Woolworth retail stores owned by the original corporation may return in the 2020s.

3.  There is still one Woolworth's store open in the US in Bakersfield, CA.  It is no longer affiliated with the F W Woolworth corporation.  But you can go there and even eat at the diner.

So any way you want to define it, Woolworths is still around.  The corporation still exists under a different name, there are Woolworth stores in Australia, and there still exists an independently owned Woolworths in Bakersfield CA.

photo of the Woolworths diner in bakersfield

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._W._Woolworth_Company#/media/File:Woolworth's_Diner.jpg

[Hardcore troubadour 15,118]

2 minutes ago, JustinCharge said:

wrong in all respects.  

1.  there are Woolworths retail stores in Australia.  They were never affiliated with the American F.W. Woolworth stores in the US though.  The name Woolworths was not trademarked in Australia so someone took the name and opened their own chain there.  But if you want to go to one in 2020, you can.

2.  the corporation actually still exists intact.  Corporations branch out and establish subsidiaries.  One of Wooloworth's subsidiaries was Foot Locker.  The corporation never disappeared, they just changed their name to Foot Locker.  So if you want to go visit a Wooloworth corporation store that can trace its lineage to the original F W Woolworth stores, you can just go to a Foot Locker in 2020.  In fact, Foot Locker is considering branching out to establish retail stores again, so its possible Woolworth retail stores owned by the original corporation may return in the 2020s.

3.  There is still one Woolworth's store open in the US in Bakersfield, CA.  It is no longer affiliated with the F W Woolworth corporation.  But you can go there and even eat at the diner.

So any way you want to define it, Woolworths is still around.  The corporation still exists under a different name, there are Woolworth stores in Australia, and there still exists an independently owned Woolworths in Bakersfield CA.

Dork. 

[Thornton Melon 617]

Zayre's

[MDC 7,223]

17 minutes ago, Mike Isles said:

I think there is still a RR on the NJ Tpke. Around exit 10. It’s been about two years since I passed it. ##### Covid !!

45 mins from Fishtown 

The Outerbridge Crossing toll plaza is about 70 miles from where I now sit in Fishtown. 

You must be one hell of a driver.  

[Ron 'Tator Salad' White 116]

Pamida, was bought out by ShopKo, which is also dead

[Mike Isles 583]

15 minutes ago, JustinCharge said:

wrong in all respects.  

1.  there are Woolworths retail stores in Australia.  They were never affiliated with the American F.W. Woolworth stores in the US though.  The name Woolworths was not trademarked in Australia so someone took the name and opened their own chain there.  But if you want to go to one in 2020, you can.

2.  the corporation actually still exists intact.  Corporations branch out and establish subsidiaries.  One of Woolworth's subsidiaries was Foot Locker.  The corporation never disappeared, they just changed their name to Foot Locker.  So if you want to go visit a Wooloworth corporation store that can trace its lineage to the original F W Woolworth stores, you can just go to a Foot Locker in 2020.  In fact, Foot Locker is considering branching out to establish retail stores again, so its possible Woolworth retail stores owned by the original corporation may return in the 2020s.

3.  There is still one Woolworth's store open in the US in Bakersfield, CA.  It is no longer affiliated with the F W Woolworth corporation.  But you can go there and even eat at the diner.

So any way you want to define it, Woolworths is still around.  The corporation still exists under a different name, there are Woolworth stores in Australia, and there still exists an independently owned Woolworths in Bakersfield CA.

photo of the Woolworths diner in bakersfield

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._W._Woolworth_Company#/media/File:Woolworth's_Diner.jpg

So still no Woolworths. Thanks for the update. 

[RaiderHaters Revenge 4,286]

1 hour ago, TheNewGirl said:

Radio Shack 

Montgomery Ward

Mervyns 

Payless Drugs 

Albertsons 

Albertsons?  Its only place I shop for groceries