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Stores you wish were still around.
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What I really want is the old Nordstrom's, before it became a status symbol store. It used to be just a great shoe store with excellent service and amazing prices. Even in the early years of expansion it was still very nice -- still great service, and mainly focused on shoes, but with a nice selection of basic clothes at great prices. Now it's a designer store with terrible selection and no attention to basics.
I miss the old Ben Franklin's, when they had Matchbox cars and model kits to buy and such. Now they are another crap store, err, craft store. 
The original Banana Republic (ok, catalogue, not store) was cool, back when they had the Israeli paratroppers bags and cargo pants (back in the early 80's before they were cool) and such. Not the yuppie/euro trash look they have now. Not anything against Europe, its a saying like White Trash, just usually relates to overly tight sweaters, pointy shoes, and wool pants.
The original Banana Republic (ok, catalogue, not store) was cool, back when they had the Israeli paratroppers bags and cargo pants (back in the early 80's before they were cool) and such. Not the yuppie/euro trash look they have now. Not anything against Europe, its a saying like White Trash, just usually relates to overly tight sweaters, pointy shoes, and wool pants.
groovebuster said:Funny user name you have...
But didn't he change his name to Otto Rehakles???
groovebuster
Hahaha
King Otto's reign over Greece may be over. I hope he doesn't leave us for ze Germans.
Children's Palace
Service Merchandise
Hills
Gold Circle
If memory serves me right we had all of those when I lived in Dayton, OH back in the 80's...don't know if any of those exist anywhere anymore, but I know I haven't seen one since then!
Service Merchandise
Hills
Gold Circle
If memory serves me right we had all of those when I lived in Dayton, OH back in the 80's...don't know if any of those exist anywhere anymore, but I know I haven't seen one since then!
Deefuzz said:
Service Merchandise lives again on the web.
www.servicemerchandise.com
They offer the same kind of products they used to have in their stores. When they went bankrupt the family that founded the store bought back the name and reopened it on the web. They have some nice stuff in their web store.
Another store that is long gone is Montgomery Ward.
