Age yourself with a store

[AMart]

Hardware stores with wood floors where you could buy individual nuts and bolts stored in wooden bins on long rows of shelves. ...

There is one of those a few miles from my house. Probably been in the same spot for 100 years. It is a hipster hood now.

 

[AMart]

 

[ABikerSailor]

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Damn......................I was gonna post that. I remember going on a regular basis to one when I was living in Grand Junction CO, (back in the early 70's).

 

[ABikerSailor]

Hardware stores with wood floors where you could buy individual nuts and bolts stored in wooden bins on long rows of shelves. ...

There is still one here in Amarillo (or at least 3 years ago when I last visited it). And, the thing I liked about it was that there was a staff that was really helpful, and could help you figure out what you needed, even if you only had a rough idea of what it was, and weren't sure.

 

[rightwinger]

Buster Brown

 

[Sunni Man]

There is still one here in Amarillo (or at least 3 years ago when I last visited it). And, the thing I liked about it was that there was a staff that was really helpful, and could help you figure out what you needed, even if you only had a rough idea of what it was, and weren't sure.

Now if you need an individual nut or bolt for a home project. You have to buy a dozen in a sealed package. ...

 

[Auld Phart]

Buster Brown

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always surprised my feet didn't glow at night

 

[toobfreak]

Gold Coast
Hornes
Gimbels
Loblaws
Olsons
Lafeyette
Winkys

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

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Was going to say this. Ate at their food counters with my grandmother.

So Montgomery Wards

 

[Sunni Man]

Circuit City (liked them better than Best Buy) ...

 

[the other mike]

One of my grandmothers worked at JC Penney's for awhile.

 

[Muhammed]

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Woolworths brings back fond memories.


When I was a kid, I stole Black Sabbath, Paranoid, Master of Reality, Vol 4, Sabotage, Technical Ecstasy, Mob Rules, Live Evil, Live at Last, Never Say Die and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath from Woolworths.

And Blizzard of Oz, Diary of a Madman Speak of the Devil.

All of the KISS and Rush albums

And all of the Led Zeppelin albums too. And who knows what else? Even the latest 45 singles because I made a key.

Hundreds or maybe thousands of dollars worth of stuff. Fishies, snakes, hamsters, whatever.

Then one day the manager busted me stealing a pack of Rolos.

That faggot banned me for 2 months.

I was pissed because they made the best French fries. 2 months? Seriously, 2 months??? Over a pack of Rolos? How could I go without Woolworth's fries for that long.

 

[evenflow1969]

Isalys
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A&P

Home of the tin roof Sunday. Oh that was so good!

 

[rightwinger]

Buster Brown

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always surprised my feet didn't glow at night

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My mom used to take me to Buster Browns to buy school shoes. They were supposed to be durable. I hated them, they were ugly

 

[Mr Natural]

Times Square Stores

 

[Cellblock2429]

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/——/ EJ Korvetts

 

[petro]

Red Owl Grocery Stores

Not sure if they were outside MN.

 

[d0gbreath]

These are probably still around. The one by my house closed ten years ago. It was an old one with five foot wide isles.

 

[Muhammed]

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RADIOSHACK was my goto source for electronics tech knowledge. And parts. And actually I bought my first computer there. A TRS-80.

Yes kids, us cavemen really did used to store our data on cassette tapes. And an upgrade from 4k RAM to 16k RAM cost a lot of money.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Newberrys