Favorite Mall Store When You Was Young Or A Teen

[BeenHereBefore 1,454]

Loved Sears for Star Wars toys and video games, As a teen got give Spencer's some love.

[frank 2,276]

Record Bar

[wiffleball 4,788]

Lane Bryant

[Cloaca du jour 2,147]

Babbages

Radio Shack

[Fireballer 2,639]

Aladdin’s Caslte

[GutterBoy 2,898]

29 minutes ago, Cloaca du jour said:

Babbages

Radio Shack

I used to work at Babbages.  The manager let us take home games and software, use it, then bring it back and shrink wrap it and put it back on the shelf.

I installed thousands of dollars of software on my PC, and got to play all the NES games I wanted.  It was the t1ts.

[Hawkeye21 2,381]

Aladdin's Castle

Sam Goody

GameStop

Spenser's Gifts

Old Navy

[Stryker Ryker 188]

5 hours ago, Fireballer said:

Aladdin’s Caslte

I had forgotten about this place until a few months ago I saw a tiktok that had Aladdin’s castle tokens. When I was young my parents had a card shop in the mall. I was about 4-5 at the time & would stay there with them and go to Aladdin’s castle every day. Lookin back, a 4-5 yr old walking alone in the mall is a bit alarming but back then it was fine

[Stryker Ryker 188]

As a child, I would say Aladdin’s Castle but that was more of an arcade than store. I’d say my favorite store as a child was either Kay-Bee Toys or Zany Brainy. As a teenager, it was Gadzooks or Spencer’s 

[MDC 7,124]

Victoria’s Secret

[Cdub100 3,835]

Spencer's gifts and the Book store.

[Fireballer 2,639]

Sam Goody

[wiffleball 4,788]

Oh, I hadnt thought about this in decades. But especially during the summer and holidays? Hickory Farms was the bomb.

[BunnysBastatrds 2,310]

Sharper Image 

Chess King

 Orange Julios

[TommyGavin 790]

6 hours ago, MDC said:

Victoria’s Secret

How did it fit 

[DonS 3,292]

12 hours ago, Fireballer said:

Aladdin’s Caslte

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[DonS 3,292]

I don't know if this was just at the mall near me, but I also loved the "Transfer Station"

Basically a place where you would choose different designs and have it pressed / ironed onto a t-shirt.  It was like getting concert shirts before actually going to concerts.

[BeenHereBefore 1,454]

20 minutes ago, DonS said:

I don't know if this was just at the mall near me, but I also loved the "Transfer Station"

Basically a place where you would choose different designs and have it pressed / ironed onto a t-shirt.  It was like getting concert shirts before actually going to concerts.

We had a place like that called Transfer Connection but was local company in the mall.

[RogerDodger 797]

41 minutes ago, DonS said:

I don't know if this was just at the mall near me, but I also loved the "Transfer Station"

Basically a place where you would choose different designs and have it pressed / ironed onto a t-shirt.  It was like getting concert shirts before actually going to concerts.

 

19 minutes ago, BeenHereBefore said:

We had a place like that called Transfer Connection but was local company in the mall.

I have no idea what it was called, but, go get a bossed out vette or a tiger iron pressed onto a baseball tee made you instantly a chick magnet to all the 6th grade girls.  

[bostonlager 2,664]

What was the store back in the 90s that sold sports hats and jerseys?

[Mark Davis 339]

42 minutes ago, bostonlager said:

What was the store back in the 90s that sold sports hats and jerseys?

Ours was Sports Fantasy, all kinds of shirts, hats, garbage cans, pennants, anything with a sports logo on it.

[BunnysBastatrds 2,310]

Merry Go Round 

Sears Appliance 

 

[BunnysBastatrds 2,310]

Swansosons Ice Cream

Coikie. Cake Co

[Pimpadeaux 2,404]

13 minutes ago, BunnysBastatrds said:

Sears Appliance 

 

Sears used to be the chit, but then the conversation went something like this:

RING RING!

Local Sears: Welcome to Sears, how may I help you.

Rusty: Yeah, I need a refrigerator.

Local Sears: We don't carry refrigerators, so you'll have to call another Sears and have one sent to us to deliver to you.

Rusty: You don't carry refrigerators? 

Local Sears: No, call another Sears and have one sent to us, and we'll deliver to you.

RING! RING!

Houston Sears: Welcome to Sears, how may I help you?

Rusty: I need to order a refrigerator, which my local Sears doesn't carry.

Houston Sears: Is it a one-story Sears or a two-story Sears?

Rusty: I dunno. I guess it has one story.

Houston Sears: OK, we can't ship a refrigerator to a one-story Sears.

Rusty: What the fock is this? A Rush song? All the Sears are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw?

Houston Sears: Huh?

Rusty: The one-story Sears told me to call another Sears and have a refrigerator sent to them so it could be shipped to us.

Houston Sears: We're a two-story Sears. We don't do that.

Rusty: What kind of Sears do I need to call to get a refrigerator shipped to my one-story Sears? A THREE-STORY SEARS?

Houston Sears: You'll need to call corporate on that one.

Rusty: You can take your two-story Sears and suck my four-story cack.

CLICK!

So I went down to Home Depot, bought a refrigerator and had it delivered the next day.

And you wonder why Sears went teets up.

[BeenHereBefore 1,454]

2 hours ago, bostonlager said:

What was the store back in the 90s that sold sports hats and jerseys?

Lids I believe. Ours was but think they sold hats only.

[RogerDodger 797]

1 hour ago, Mark Davis said:

Ours was Sports Fantasy, all kinds of shirts, hats, garbage cans, pennants, anything with a sports logo on it.

I still have one of those garbage cans. 

[Mark Davis 339]

13 minutes ago, RogerDodger said:

I still have one of those garbage cans. 

Me too!  I have an old North Carolina one we use for the trash can on poker nights in my basement.

[thegeneral 2,895]

17 hours ago, Fireballer said:

Aladdin’s Caslte

That’s the one. 

[BunnysBastatrds 2,310]

The parking lot 

 

[BunnysBastatrds 2,310]

Ticket Master

[BunnysBastatrds 2,310]

Your mom

[BunnysBastatrds 2,310]

Waltons Books/Magazines

Tinder Box Tobaco

Da Pet Store

 

 

[bostonlager 2,664]

8 hours ago, BeenHereBefore said:

Lids I believe. Ours was but think they sold hats only.

It was before lids. Same business model as lids, but I can't remember the name. 

[BeenHereBefore 1,454]

7 hours ago, bostonlager said:

It was before lids. Same business model as lids, but I can't remember the name. 

Back in the 90's I think Gadzooks or Route 21 sold a lot of sports jerseys in their windows.

[MTSkiBum 1,620]

I grew up in north central, Wyoming about 2 hours from the closest mall. I could count on 1 hand the number of times I went to a mall as a teenager.

 

My favorite store as a teenager was always Bob Wards though. Similar to an "Academy" except for the north.