Stores, some of my favorite

When I first read this thread, my mind went immediately to stores post WWI through the decade after WWII. When Blockbuster, Mervyns,Home Depot and the like appeared on lists I thought "wait a minute those aren't old stores" but then I did a little math and discovered that some really are.... darn I'm sooooo old that those places feel like they were open yesterday.
 

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Llynn said:
When I first read this thread, my mind went immediately to stores post WWI and the decade after WWII. When Blockbuster, Mervyns,Home Depot and the like appeared on lists I thought "wait a minute those aren't old stores" but then I did a little math and discovered that some really are.... darn I'm sooooo old that those places feel like they were open yesterday.
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Forty years passed in a flash.
 
I always remember what a thrill it was in the late '50s to travel to downtown Pittsburgh during the Holidays to shop at Gimbels (which originated in Pgh) and Kaufmann's. The stores were 8-10 stories full of everything one could imagine, and were beautifully decked out for Christmas.

Later on in L.A. we used to love to shop (or window shop) at The Broadway (at Hollywood & Vine), and also the May Co. Great stores which are gone now.
 

The Cracked Seed shop at the Ala Moana Shopping Center on Oahu.

They had the best Li Hing Mui and dried Cuttlefish.

A Hugh selection of fruits and tastes, it was hard sometimes to pick which ones to get on my small amount of 'teen money'.

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A bygone store and era, when they lit the Christmas tree at Rich’s in downtown Atlanta, signaled the beginning of the Holiday season.

 
Someone mentioned Western Auto... this brought back some memories, as Dad used to be into modifying his vehicles. He used to go there a lot, the one time I went with him was the last time I saw the store in business. In 1972, he bought a new F-100 Truck, wanted the chrome rails that go down the bedsides, and lights that were on the roof. So we went there one Saturday, about an hour away. Cool old store.

I miss how things used to be. The old stores, the people, the slower pace in life.
 
When I got my first car, I had saved up enough yard mowing money to put mag wheels and wide tires and air shocks on my '70 Satellite. Took it to Montgomery Wards. "Monkey Wards" as the guys used to call it lol... Our small town shopping mall, long gone now, used to have Wards, JC Penney, Danner's (kind of like GC Murphy) I loved that store as a kid, toys galore. And when I started jr. high school, I was always at the t-shirt shop, out in the hallway. Had several of those to wear to school.
 

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