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Post by Lance Uppercut on Apr 3, 2023 15:57:51 GMT -5
For me, Quiznos.
They don’t show commercials anymore and all the ones by my old neighborhood in West LA closed around the same time.
Thought it was dead, but moved back to my home town in the suburbs and I found at least 2.
Same goes for Which Which. Oddly enough, where I was livi my before, they still had a Togo’s and I never see that here
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Post by darthobiwan on Apr 3, 2023 20:54:50 GMT -5
TNA lol!
But seriously outside of wrestling it's Kmart. They have been dying for at least 20 years now, AND are there even a hand-full of stores left?
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Post by fg on Apr 3, 2023 21:01:49 GMT -5
TNA lol! But seriously outside of wrestling it's Kmart. They have been dying for at least 20 years now, AND are there even a hand-full of stores left? Only three. One in Florida and two in the NYC area. They are like the last Blockbuster. |
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Apr 3, 2023 21:05:05 GMT -5
Pan Am
Although no longer an airline, I learned a couple of years ago they still operate as rail service in parts of New England
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Post by Savage Gambino on Apr 3, 2023 21:24:47 GMT -5
But seriously outside of wrestling it's Kmart. They have been dying for at least 20 years now, AND are there even a hand-full of stores left? On that same note, Sears. Sure, there's less than 20 left in the entire country, but they're still alive and kicking somewhere. |
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Apr 3, 2023 21:29:09 GMT -5
For me, Quiznos. They don’t show commercials anymore and all the ones by my old neighborhood in West LA closed around the same time. Thought it was dead, but moved back to my home town in the suburbs and I found at least 2. Same goes for Which Which. Oddly enough, where I was livi my before, they still had a Togo’s and I never see that here The Quizno’s in the city near me actually recently closed. It had gone to shit tho, last time I ate there it was awful. |
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Apr 3, 2023 22:41:43 GMT -5
In the same vein as Quizno's, I'll say Blimpie's. I remember them being fairly common when I was a kid in the 80's, but as Subway's grew in popularity in the 90's and 2000's, they kind of disappeared and I just assumed went out of business. It always amazes me when I run across one, usually in New Jersey.
Might as well mention Roy Rogers as well. I haven't seen one personally in forever, but there are apparently still a few left out there.
Oh, and McFarlane Toys is apparently still a thing. I ran across a store selling some of their figures recently and I was amazed as I had not thought about them in years. I remember working with some guys back in the mid-00's who were obsessed with their sports figures.
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Post by Cyno on Apr 3, 2023 22:47:02 GMT -5
Roy Rogers is a staple of highway rest areas from what I've seen. Dunno the last time I saw a standalone Roy Rogers restaurant though.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Apr 3, 2023 22:51:30 GMT -5
For me, Quiznos. They don’t show commercials anymore and all the ones by my old neighborhood in West LA closed around the same time. Thought it was dead, but moved back to my home town in the suburbs and I found at least 2. Same goes for Which Which. Oddly enough, where I was livi my before, they still had a Togo’s and I never see that here The Quizno’s in the city near me actually recently closed. It had gone to shit tho, last time I ate there it was awful. The one near me closed years back. Last time I went it was f***ing filthy despite being a ghost town. I do miss the only sub I ever ordered there though, Turkey Ranch Swiss. Can’t recreate it at Subway. I tried. |
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Apr 3, 2023 23:25:48 GMT -5
Roy Rogers is a staple of highway rest areas from what I've seen. Dunno the last time I saw a standalone Roy Rogers restaurant though. Even as a part of highway rest areas there are no where near as many Roy Rogers as there was ten years ago. |
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Apr 4, 2023 7:12:53 GMT -5
Oh, and McFarlane Toys is apparently still a thing. I ran across a store selling some of their figures recently and I was amazed as I had not thought about them in years. I remember working with some guys back in the mid-00's who were obsessed with their sports figures. This one for sure. I was HUGE into McFarlane Sports Picks from 2005-2010ish and used to buy them all the time, primarily NHL. I haven’t seen new McFarlane figures for sale in years. |
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Post by MiLB Fan on Apr 4, 2023 8:37:10 GMT -5
Rax and The Ground Round. I ate at these restaurants a lot as a kid and just discovered through a quick Google search that both still have a few locations scattered throughout the country. Rax seems to be concentrated mostly in Ohio.
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Post by wildojinx on Apr 4, 2023 8:40:07 GMT -5
The cable channel NESN (New England Sports Network). Considering how regional it is you'd think it would have been bought out by ESPN or some other company long ago, but it's still active, though their current logo is terrible:  |
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Apr 4, 2023 8:43:22 GMT -5
But seriously outside of wrestling it's Kmart. They have been dying for at least 20 years now, AND are there even a hand-full of stores left? On that same note, Sears. Sure, there's less than 20 left in the entire country, but they're still alive and kicking somewhere. Are they still under the same corporate umbrella? |
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Post by Push R Truth on Apr 4, 2023 9:02:34 GMT -5
There's been like 4 separate times in the last 30 years where I was surprised to hear the NWA was still a thing. The only reason I know it's still exists today is the jokes about Tyrus.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Apr 4, 2023 9:10:00 GMT -5
But seriously outside of wrestling it's Kmart. They have been dying for at least 20 years now, AND are there even a hand-full of stores left? On that same note, Sears. Sure, there's less than 20 left in the entire country, but they're still alive and kicking somewhere. At this point if the historical catalogs and other papers from the beginning if saved are probably worth more at this point then the stores or name |
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Post by mc74 on Apr 4, 2023 9:11:47 GMT -5
Then you learn there's still that one Blockbuster store.
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Post by Ryushinku on Apr 4, 2023 10:22:31 GMT -5
Wimpy restaurants.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Apr 4, 2023 11:09:13 GMT -5
For me, Quiznos. They don’t show commercials anymore and all the ones by my old neighborhood in West LA closed around the same time. Thought it was dead, but moved back to my home town in the suburbs and I found at least 2. Same goes for Which Which. Oddly enough, where I was livi my before, they still had a Togo’s and I never see that here I hadn't heard of Which Wich until I moved to Chicago back in 2009. They had pretty darn good food, and the mark-the-bag ordering system was neat. Wiki says they have 431 locations. Up from 50 in 2007. That, Potbelly, and Pret a Manger were some of my regular lunch go-tos. |
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Post by chrom on Apr 4, 2023 14:12:46 GMT -5
Blockbuster still exists
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