Your favorite stores growing up that no longer exist?

[iamthemilkman]

KB Toys
Children's Palace
Hills Department Store
Phar-Mor
Camelot Music
Sam Goody
Disc Jockey
National Record Mart

 

[Humility]

KB Toys mostly and Griggs. (I believe they're no longer around.)

 

[Metroid_Hybrid]

 

[Bakuma1997]

Not exactly a store, but the Walmart near my home had in December a small section named Juguetilandia (Toyland) that was section where they were lots of toys, neatly sorted in small sections and they even had a small christmas tree, sadly by the time the new tens rolled they clossed that sector and toy are now in two small aisles

 

[snoonch]

Growing up, Blockbuster Video was my jam. It was my happy place.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

Todo Por 2 Pesos, where I rented Genesis games, got movies by the dozens and bought some of my favorite toys.

 

[Xdqwerty Xdqwerty]

I remember a toy store somewhat nearby where I got several of my childhood toys from, and it seems it shut down years ago

 

[MajesticSiN]

 

[Jeff]

KB Toys
Sam Goody
Borders
Brookstone
EB Games/EBX
Zany Brainy
Sharper Image
Comp-USA
Radio Shack
The original Disney Store

 

[diet_orange]

Hudson's Treasure Hunt. It was sort of a big close-out chain store that had some pretty kick-ass stuff if you poked around a lot. I remember getting a novelization of The Simpsons' Christmas Special, a huge box of Wacky Packages, and even a Canadian variant of Chibi-Robo for the Gamecube. It was also insanely messy to the point where you had to dig through stuff, like a garage sale organized by a hoarder

Unfortunately it got bought out years ago and hasn't quite been the same since

 

[KenaiPhoenix]

Block buster is out, and damn I miss it.

We also lost Pizza Hut here, which is kind of really sad, tho they lost quality a lot.

On my more recent lost, and one thing that I miss a lot, it was our local video game stores: I bought all my games from them and they where really professional with games on release day, DLC as gifs, and even some t-shirts made by them if you get the game on day 1.

They sadly close their doors on 2020-21, and now we have just a bunch of small stores that either mostly sell Funko-pops, are less serious (Once a guy told me to come back next week to get my copy of SAO FD, because "we have it a launh", and it was only a lie), or take their time to get any game here.

I miss them alot

 

[Sinsic30]

i remember there use to be a video game store called play n trade - that was my spot for all my gameing needs - and they gave you a fair deal for the stuff you traded in too... i miss when i was a pre teen *crys* :-(

 

[Cardboardtubeknight Cardboardtubeknight]

Really just that "third place" any of them

 

[Guinea]

The comic store in my hometown. They would special order me any manga free of charge and they had Yugioh/Magic tournaments on friday and Smash Bros/Tekken tournaments on the weekends. That place kicked ass.

 

[What's His Face]

Ames Department Stores Inc.
Babbage's/EB Games/FuncoLand/Rhino Video Games/Software Etc./ThinkGeek (all these are now Game Stop)...
Bailey Banks & Biddle
Blockbuster
Blockbuster Music
Borders Books
Circuit City
F. W. Woolworth
Woolco
F.A.O. Schwarz
Florsheim
Frederick's of Hollywood (online only now...I loved those catalogues)...
Fry's Electronics
G.I. Joe's (Pac. NW camping store)
Good Guys
Hollywood Video
Game Crazy
Incredible Universe
K-Mart (Yes, seriously)
KB Toys
Levitz Furniture
Mervyn's
Montgomery Ward
New York Department Stores
Payless Shoes
Pier 1 Imports
Sam Goody
Sears
Suncoast Motion Picture Company
Tower Records
Toys "R" Us
Two Guys
Warner Brothers Studio Store

 

[TinRattler]

Games wizard
Video game store where I would buy c64 SMS mega drive and SNES games as they were cheaper than department stores.
They were bought by an overseas company who ramped up the prices and closed down 2 years later

 

[bjork]

i remember there use to be a video game store called play n trade - that was my spot for all my gameing needs - and they gave you a fair deal for the stuff you traded in too... i miss when i was a pre teen *crys* :-(

There are still some of these around, they're just independent now. I know of one for sure in Mission Viejo CA, not sure how many more there are.

My pick is Wherehouse. "Wall to wall, fun for all" with music and games and movie rentals before you could just go buy VHS tapes. I remember them having a sign that said you either had to show ID or have a written note from home if you wanted to buy the Luke Skyywalker tape