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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:Arcades having a bunch of pinball machines. I remember it being common for arcades to have at least four, now you will be lucky if they have one traditional pinball machine. They probably won't have any. Pinball machines require a fair amount of maintenance. Aside from places that kind of specialize in having a pinball machine all the ones I've seen kicking around nowadays have something critical broken like a flipper or set of bumpers. Pinball is still a really fun game for me though.
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Chinatown posted:Fry's Electronics. This to the fuckin nth degree. I loved going to Fry's, it was an electronics heaven. God bless their porn section, lmao. My local Fry's is the same one they used to film Nope, and I love that movie, but watching them walk through the same store with actual products on shelves takes me back to another time. Stupid, I know.
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Speaking of Fry's. Here in Canada we used to have a chain of store like Best Buy called Future Shop. It was my favorite place to go whenever I had some money to spend. To this day, whenever I need some consumer electronic, sometimes I'll say 'we should go to Future Shop for that.'. Future Shop hasn't existed from over 20 years. With that said, when I go a restaurant and the host comes to guide us to the table I still sometimes expect them to ask 'Smoking or non?'. Smoking in restaurants has been gone for over 20 years as well.
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Catastrophe posted:I haven't seen mention of Shopko I loved Shopko so much. What Kmart was to Walmart, Shopko was to Target. It was always the most peaceful shopping experience among any of the general merchandise superstores. They also had the best clearances, regularly reaching 90% off, whereas Target maxes out at 70% I believe. And they weren't stingy on which items got marked down. I found so many PS4, Wii U, and 3DS games for under $3 a piece.
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I miss non-Goodwill thrift stores. There used to be a bunch around here and I loved browsing in them and finding unusual stuff or really good deals. But they've all disappeared and loving Goodwill sucks. Anything good or interesting gets scooped up by the emoyees, but I can't blame them since the company treats them like poo poo.
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Tarkus posted:Speaking of Fry's. Here in Canada we used to have a chain of store like Best Buy called Future Shop. It was my favorite place to go whenever I had some money to spend. To this day, whenever I need some consumer electronic, sometimes I'll say 'we should go to Future Shop for that.'. Future Shop hasn't existed from over 20 years. Remember A&B Sound? I spent way too much of my student loan money buying CDs there in the late 90s....
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Bennys and Building 19 New England goons know what I’m talking about. Bennys was the best place to go get tires for your car and buy a bicycle while you wait. Building 19… poo poo you guys have all seen the video. https://youtu.be/Odz_-BcKxx0
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Bloodfart McCoy posted:Bennys and Building 19 The Benny’s near where I grew up lasted until 2018, shockingly.
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Bloodfart McCoy posted:Bennys and Building 19 This is a goon
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Bloodfart McCoy posted:Bennys and Building 19 I had a weird love for Building 19 and miss it too. It was like the world's sketchiest treasure hunt (*treasure not guaranteed)
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If you want a messy indoor flea market just go Anywhere, The South
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Some Guy From NY posted:NYer spotted! First of all, yay fellow NYer  I miss Fishbein's too  Second of all, it really did feel so much smaller than it was, even though there is a 100% chance that we didn't go to the same Genovese (I grew up in Queens). teen witch posted:The fuckin WIZ Nobody beats the WIZ  That PC Richards whistle during Mets & Yankees home games for every strike out drives me loving insane. quote:And for a weirdly niche one? There used to be Chevy dealership they always had ads on the radio, ending with “Hustedt Chevrolet, yippie-I-yo-kai-yay.” There is definitely another car dealership in or around NYC that uses "yippie-kai-yo-kai-yay" in their slogan and of course now I can't remember it since the baseball season is over. They also say something like "is [whatever the hell] the best? Boy I guess".
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BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:The Benny’s near where I grew up lasted until 2018, shockingly. Same, mine is now a Harbour Freight.
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Bloodfart McCoy posted:Building 19… poo poo you guys have all seen the video. Getting some major Montgomery Flea Market vibes from this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ3oHpup-pk
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YeahTubaMike posted:First of all, yay fellow NYer Call Sutherland Nissan today. Yippie kai yo kai yay.
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What was the big toy store in Boston? My grandparents got me the 20 vehicle voltron there all the way back in 1982. Must have imported it
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precision posted:What was the big toy store in Boston? My grandparents got me the 20 vehicle voltron there all the way back in 1982. Must have imported it FAO Schwarz? Had a giant teddy bear outside, now it's at the Children's Hospital.
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Big toy store? You take whatever cheap crap is in the discount bins at Stuarts and you might get some Papa Gino’s at the end of the day.
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Hector Delgado posted:FAO Schwarz? Had a giant teddy bear outside, now it's at the Children's Hospital. I've been there, before. My ex wanted to get a picture next to their giant Lego Batman they had in there. I also saw the "Big" piano but that doggone thing costed a fortune.  
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Hector Delgado posted:FAO Schwarz? Had a giant teddy bear outside, now it's at the Children's Hospital. No it had a name, like Bob's Toys or something. Had lots of imported stuff
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Catastrophe posted:I've been there, before. My ex wanted to get a picture next to their giant Lego Batman they had in there. I also saw the "Big" piano but that doggone thing costed a fortune. Lol I was expecting like 2, 3 thousand. NOPE
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Gambit from the X-Men posted:someone said Hills. drat. deep cut. I loved the popcorn and they'd somehow have oddball Star Wars figures that were tough to find elsewhere.
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they had ECW shirts in southern Virginia, which was cool. they also definitely had an esoteric toy selection that felt out of time even in its era. i remember the weird late 90s ninja turtles with Venus de Milo(?) being prominent near the end. RIP &c.
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Catastrophe posted:I haven't seen mention of Shopko Dang, is Shopko dead? I haven't been in one since I left Nebraska for college, but it was a fixture of my stupid Midwest high-school years. My mom even worked there for a year right after we moved, as a job to get food on the table while the local school district wasn't hiring her (they legit lost her resume behind a filling cabinet and called immediately when they found it, top-tier dumb poo poo), and by all accounts it wasn't even the worst place to work for even if it was still retail.
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Antivehicular posted:Dang, is Shopko dead? I haven't been in one since I left Nebraska for college, but it was a fixture of my stupid Midwest high-school years. My mom even worked there for a year right after we moved, as a job to get food on the table while the local school district wasn't hiring her (they legit lost her resume behind a filling cabinet and called immediately when they found it, top-tier dumb poo poo), and by all accounts it wasn't even the worst place to work for even if it was still retail. Wikipedia says: "Shopko (stylized as SHOPKO, formerly stylized as ShopKo) was a chain of department stores based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. All locations closed on June 23, 2019, with the exception of the Shopko Optical locations,[3] which continue to operate."
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Nthing Fry’s. Used to ride my bike there every so often as a bored younger teenager to browse and occasionally buy an ancient game on sale for my hand me down PC with dialup. Some locations also had books and huge DVD sections for the longest time. Last time I went before it closed it was a shell of its former self.
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Gambit from the X-Men posted:someone said Hills. drat. deep cut. I used to buy my transformers at the hills in Johnson city Tennessee. I haven't thought about that store in an infinite amount of time
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the Spain Virus posted:Oh, J.J. Newberry's, the last of the dime stores. There was also a Jamesway, which was in the same small shopping plaza as the three-screen movie theater. The entry vestibule to the Jamesway had two payphones, and those were the only way, in that plaza, to call your parents to come pick you up if you'd been dropped off with friends/older siblings to watch a movie. Jamesway went out of business by the time I was 13 but I remember that before that I learned how to shoplift from one of my older siblings' friends in the CD department. They showed me how to open up the big long weird rectangular cases Jamesway used to put CDs into their old LP racks and slip the CD down my shirt, lol. -- I miss those hippie stores that used to be in every mall, selling incense and Buddha sculptures and pukka-shell jewelry and Baja hoodies and hermit crabs. I mean the hermit crabs weren't being well taken care of so it's really better for them but I didn't know it at the time and I enjoyed hanging out and interacting with the hermit crabs at that time. Also it's been ages since I've seen the kind of candy store that lets you bulk-buy stuff instead of just selling prepackaged branded candies. Been trying to track down chocolate non-pareils to give to my dad for the holidays but all the candy stores we used to get 'em at when I was a kid are gone now.
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We had a sweet rear end candy store in both our malls once upon a time. Great place to hit up and just breeze past the bored teenagers working the tickets at the theater
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teen witch posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI5nYSYtZmw gently caress yeah! The Discovery Zone of my childhood was converted into a Panera Bread 20-something years ago. It’s been a Panera Bread twice as long as it was a Discovery Zone. Yet every time I drive by that drat shopping plaza my brain is still surprised not to see the DZ logo for a split second.
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Borders books. They had a really cool music section and carried a ton of genre fiction and the combined forces of Amazon and Barnes & noble murdered em and consumed the corpse respectively
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Western Mass had those hippy-weirdo-headshop boutiques called Faces, one in Amherst and one in Northampton. The Amherst one was in a former bowling alley behind a gas station and decorated its front facade with enormous weird designs cut out of sheet metal so you could see 'em from the street, which they'd change out for holidays and stuff. It closed in the 90s but the Northampton store, which was more funky than hippy, continued on til 2019.
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KitConstantine posted:Borders books. They had a really cool music section and carried a ton of genre fiction and the combined forces of Amazon and Barnes & noble murdered em and consumed the corpse respectively I’ll never forget stumbling onto a copy of They Saved Hitler’s Brain in the Borders 50 miles from my hometown, next to a huge selection of other b-movies. As a kid who loved them, that was like stumbling into Mecca - I got an advance on my allowance and a jump start on my collection that day. There were so many stores I loved visiting - Software Safari in Houston had titles from DOS games and Windows software going all the way back to a well-tended Amiga section. And Hastings was a godsend, making it possible to get books and music without making the long trek to Houston. That store had a selection of rentable PC games for about a year before a lawsuit cut that out… can’t imagine how many people got a cheap copy of Doom II that way. I’ll also go to bat for Incredible Universe, where I bought software! SimLife, Hexen, and one of those terrible Doom shovelware CDs were confirmed purchases; it was the last place I ever saw a retail copy of SKYnet, and I wish to god I’d snagged it there before it suddenly went under. Last I heard it had been turned into a nice community college campus. At least there’s still Micro Center and Movie Trading Company.
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normal-rear end vampire posted:I miss non-Goodwill thrift stores. There used to be a bunch around here and I loved browsing in them and finding unusual stuff or really good deals. But they've all disappeared and loving Goodwill sucks. Anything good or interesting gets scooped up by the emoyees, but I can't blame them since the company treats them like poo poo. We still have one around here. It's 3 stories of some building that seems to be falling down and creaks loudly with every step. No rhyme or reason for placement of anything, just piles of random things and everything is priced as "just make an offer." It's fantastic and horrifying at the same time.
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