Montgomery wards, Kmart, Cabela's

You could buy guns and even house kits to build your own home. Sears and Roebuck?

ALCO. Smaller than most walmarts but bigger than DGs. Come to think of it we didn't really have DGs back in those days. It was located in the same strip mall as the local theater. We would load up on candy there to sneak into the movies.

Yes still open ....a bit of a novelty.....tourist getting picture in front of the street sign all the time

Does anyone remember "Brand Names"?

That's cool AG. Had no idea there was still one in existence.

Yes, George Herter was a crook, and a BSer but in the 60s Herter's was all there was.
As a kid I spent many a winter night looking over the Herter's mail order catalogs. Some of his stuff was pretty good.

KAPLIN BROTHERS

Down on lake street in Minneapolis. When I was a kid run by a wonderful extended, Jewish family, and they worked off commission. So they were always trying to help you with little notepads, writing down what you wanted to buy. It was magical because they had a beautiful beautiful daughter. One of them did, and I'd always try to give her my credits

Radioshack was cool

I worked for autozone when it was called auto shack .....then radio shack got bent

Now no radio shack .....

Western Auto
Piggly Wiggly

5 and 10 cent stores

Yep, Radio Shack is another one I miss. Simple stuff, resistors, small capacitors, pc boards etc...........No place to buy them local anymore. Luckily, Amazon does. .

The old Bernstien Applebys electronics stores were pretty good too. They went out in the late 1960s, just about the tile industry switched over from vacuum tube to solid state electronics.

Wilmington Dry Goods, Woolworth 5 & 10, Gaylords, and Gimbels.

Would get the Brand Names catalog. Every product had a number.
Then go to Dunkirk to the store, fill out a form and what you bought would shoot out of a conveyor through a hole in the wall!!


I also miss Twin Fair

I miss all the stores that gave a dam about what they were selling. Most every public store has employees that are nothing more than stockers or checkout workers. You are lucky if they ever ask can I help you.

^^^^ THIS !

Alco had a sister company, Duckwalls which was a smaller store in smaller towns that was actually the profitable side. They hired a new CEO who decided the way to make Alco profitable was to close all the Duckwalls.

Add Otasco to the list.

Herters

I miss Swallens Department Store in Springdale, Ohio,a suburb of Cincinnati. I got my Ruger 10/22, with a cherry wood stock on my 16th birthday and my Remington 870 Express, Super Mag Combo there on my 18th birthday. Most of our school supplies came from there. I got pet fish and aquariums from there too.

Once, my dad pinned a car against a fence in the parking lot, that hit his Mustang at Swallens and then fled, trying to get out. The entire parking lot was fenced and gated on the side. My dad then jumped out, ran up and pulled the driver from the car and pinned him against the fence too. That guy was terrified and literally peed his pants.

Keith