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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Dec 16, 2018 10:58:02 GMT -5
My dad is from West Bridgewater, MA which used to be filled with these. They were at minimum 15 years behind the times. You’d walk into a pizza shop and the owner’s kids would be playing NES on a small TV in the back. The thing was it was 2004. Unfortunately, most of these small mom and pop stores died out a few years later and now it’s getting to look more like every other town.
Anyway, my dad’s uncle actuall owned a used book store. The only way you’d ever know about it is through word of mouth. It was in a small dilapidated building in front of a nearly equally dilapidated house. There was no sign or anything and I remember the door was even tough to get into. The only parking it had was the big dirt driveway which also went to the house.
Another one was a tiny secondhand toy store that looked like someone’s unfinished basement. I liked that store a lot as you could find old He-Man figures there. Some Ninja Turtles and Transformers too, but I don’t think any GI Joe, which was my favorite. I once got some kind of video game system from the 1970s there that was sort of like pong. The space was completely redone and is now cell phone store.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Dec 16, 2018 12:51:09 GMT -5
We had a mom and daughter ran used bookstore in town. Been around at least 40 years. When I was younger they would have a few boxes of comics. Which were trade 2 for 1 or 50 cents each. The owners knew me well,since they had been seeing me since I was 4. So would call me if they got in books I wanted.Sadly since no one in this area reads,there is no bookstores in this county,the used bookstore closed 2 years ago.
It was in an old house behind the main street. With the front room being various romance novels. And one of the back bedrooms housing the horror/sci fi/western and war books. It was kinda funny to watch the older guys come into the store and rush to the back room.
Now in that house is a tattoo parlor.
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Post by jagilki on Dec 16, 2018 14:13:15 GMT -5
There was kind of something like this. Basically just an old house. Lady had a bunch of tanks and such she kept minnows in, bunch of worms and sold tackle out of her shed.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Dec 16, 2018 14:41:53 GMT -5
Not from my childhood...But we have a guy out here on the lake. He sells fresh eggs and fish bait out of a Katrina cottage. He also lives in the cottage. Best eggs you can find,and they are cheap. $3 for 2 dozen.
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Post by Citizen Snips on Dec 16, 2018 15:02:19 GMT -5
I'm not yet 40 years old, but I remember going to 5 & Dime stores.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2018 15:38:35 GMT -5
I just moved with my then-girlfriend (now wife of 20+ years) to Mississippi. Little area between incorporated Leland and Arcola. Nothing but farmland. Her grandparents lived in a house on a cotton farm. One house across the street/dirt road. Next door to that was an honest to goodness General store, like Sam Drucker owned on Green Acres. (2 other homes were within 2 miles.) Her cousins (all 7 who lived in the house) would go there a lot for candy. Girlfriend and I had to accompany them.
(Looking on Google maps now, all that is gone now. A construction company is there.)
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Post by Juice on Dec 16, 2018 21:40:40 GMT -5
Vicki's Video store, was the best non chain store I've ever been to. Multi floored, swivel stairs horror section was entire bottom floor. Then Moovies, and video warehouse and eventually blockbuster (all in same store front at different times) shut Vicki down. I saw so many horror movies as a kid because of Vicki's. I have so much nostalgia for it.
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Post by Milkman Norm on Dec 16, 2018 23:13:58 GMT -5
There was a family store called Pierce's Little Store down the street from our house. We used to get money from our mom to go pick her up wine and smokes. Then we'd take the left over money and go to the nearby Dairy Queen to get a blizzard.
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Post by Long A, Short A on Dec 17, 2018 0:44:37 GMT -5
There was a mom and pop video store that closed 18 years to the day it opened. The store stayed popular in the neighborhood it was in and the city as a whole. They played ads during Adult Swim and the Owner use to go on the NPR music station each week to talk about movies. I got my first taste of Joshi from that place.
B-mart...Oh damn B-mart. This store only sold beauty products for black women and Pier-1 style knick knacks...that's it. They sent prints ads like chain stores, but the ads black and white illumination. I just took a trip down that Google highway and found out that they are still open and they've changed their focus. B-mart still sells Blue Magic hair grease and hot combs, but they're also a pawn shop, jewelry repair and sell "health and wellness" products.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2018 7:36:11 GMT -5
Back in Southern NY there was a local video store called Captain Video. It connected to the Baskin Robins next door so it must've been the same owner. A Blockbuster later replaced it. No idea what is there now (think it had been a pizza place the last time I was near there but that had to be almost 10 years ago.)
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Post by James Fabiano on Dec 17, 2018 8:22:58 GMT -5
Back in Southern NY there was a local video store called Captain Video. It connected to the Baskin Robins next door so it must've been the same owner. A Blockbuster later replaced it. No idea what is there now (think it had been a pizza place the last time I was near there but that had to be almost 10 years ago.) Was a certain employee there obsessed with swerves?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2018 9:05:19 GMT -5
Back in Southern NY there was a local video store called Captain Video. It connected to the Baskin Robins next door so it must've been the same owner. A Blockbuster later replaced it. No idea what is there now (think it had been a pizza place the last time I was near there but that had to be almost 10 years ago.) Was a certain employee there obsessed with swerves? I lived in Rockland County so no...bro
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Post by sabretooth on Dec 17, 2018 9:06:44 GMT -5
Joe Pete's store. It had been in business since the 40's, and you could tell, as some of the merchandise seemed to date to then. It was run by Joe and his wife. They must have been in their eighties when I used to go there in the late 80's. They were cranky as hell and suspected EVERYBODY was stealing from them. They would follow you in the store to make sure you didn't pocket anything. The walls were covered in old guns and Indian artifacts (many were modern made, but being sold as authentic, such as rocks shaped like crucifixes and eagles). Kids were his main business as he had the largest selection of candy, comic books, and magazines. It was pretty much the only place to get comics in town. Unfortunately, they wrote the actual price (cost + tax) on the comic covers. I didn't care too much about value back then, and since it was the only place to get comics, I bought there for a couple years.
I remember trying to buy a Fangoria magazine, and he wouldn't sell it to me because I wasn't "old enough for that mess"!
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Post by SmashTV on Dec 17, 2018 12:46:35 GMT -5
There's a shop near me which is a general store - corner shops as we call them in England - which has been there for decades. It looks like it's been closed for years but local myth and rumour has it that once in a while the woman who owns it opens up. Whether this is a regular thing or not is another matter.
Another local shop of yesteryear was called Pat's (as in Patrick), and was run by a genial Irishman. He was located opposite the local fleapit cinema, and as such you'd buy your cinema snacks from him before heading in. This was a decade or so before the boom of the multiplex, but even back then cinema snacks were more expensive than in normal shops. The cinema had three screens, but if that was 100 people per screen per show and most of them went to Pat's beforehand, the man must have made an absolute fortune.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2018 12:54:22 GMT -5
Maybe not completely mom and pop but I use to always go to Pamida here in Illinois...It is where I got almost all the hasbro figs
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Post by Bub (BLM) on Dec 17, 2018 14:22:15 GMT -5
There was this old drug store called Duckwalls that I loved as a kid. If I couldn't find an elusive TMNT figure at Toys R Us or Walmart, I could almost always find it there. Same for G.I. Joes.
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Post by Push R Truth on Dec 17, 2018 14:51:52 GMT -5
The old Ben Franklin store downtown was amazing as a kid. Had all the stuff that was cool: Candy, playing/collectable cards, toys and arts and crafts. I know it had other stuff but I was like 8 and didn't give a shit about other stuff.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Mar 21, 2019 8:28:29 GMT -5
There was this old drug store called Duckwalls that I loved as a kid. If I couldn't find an elusive TMNT figure at Toys R Us or Walmart, I could almost always find it there. Same for G.I. Joes. I miss my GI Joe collection so much. I've been watching the DIC series lately and its like every character makes me think of the toy counterpart, so many of which I owned and some multiple copies of.
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Post by Push R Truth on Mar 22, 2019 9:55:00 GMT -5
Glad this thread got bumped because I was reminded of a old diner/fast food place in town. It advertised " Hot Burgers and Ice Cold Beer to Go!" At the drive-in window you'd get your food and the beer came in a plastic cup without a lid and you'd drive away.
Like... what the hell did they expect you to do, not drink it while driving? This place was renovated in the 80's and it became more Diner and they removed the fast food/drive in portion of it.
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Mar 22, 2019 10:12:34 GMT -5
A shop called Scrooges that sold cheap shit. Crappy toys, those eggs with aliens in, crap plastic flower pots, ugly plates.
Steptoe Parlor which sold second hand junk. Anything really could be sold there. It's still in business.
Oodles. A fancy dress shop. It used to sell jokes too but is now just fancy dress. That's still going.
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