Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 (edited) Western Auto J. C Higgins Charlie Brown's Sambo's Howard Johnsson F. W. Woolworth Ben Franklin Builder's Emporium FedCo Fed Mart Ponderosa Steak House Spudnut The Bluebird Restaurant...and Cafe Western Airlines Santa Fe RR Burma Shave UTOCO Name your favorite long gone places. Edited August 11 by Forty Rod SASS 3935 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calamity Kris Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 White Front Zodys Gemco McDonnell Douglas (They treated us really well....) Oshman's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Bullweed Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 I worked in restaurants for 8 years as a teenager and college student. They are gone: Bonanza Steak&Ale Bennigans Rock-ola Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-BAR #18287 Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 (edited) K Mart Sears Roebuck Hastings Bookstores Newberry's 5&10 Edited August 10 by J-BAR #18287 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 Was JC Higgins actually a business? I thought it was just a brand name Sears roebuck put on their guns. Thom McAn shoes Buster Brown shoes 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted August 10 Author Share Posted August 10 (edited) Western Gear Corp. Crown Books Low Cost Drug Stores ZCMI Studebaker, Packard, Nash, Kaiser-Frazer, Edsel, American Motors, Crosley....and lots more Marx Toys B inB Mushrooms Waco Aircraft Co. Ozark Airlines and Texas International Riverside Motor Speedway Fearless Farris gas stations Signal gas stations Edited August 10 by Forty Rod SASS 3935 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackwater 53393 Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 Mrs. Winner’s Chicken Studebaker/Packard S-K Tools Pepsodent Toothpaste Oldsmobile Burger Chef Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 (edited) "Monkey" [Montgomery] Wards Montgomery Ward carried a line of firearms under the Western Field brand that were made by Savage/Stevens, Mossberg, Marlin, Glenfield, Springfield, High Standard and others, including European built Mausers. Some were actually pretty darned decent! 1960's vintage Western Field 724A Mauser-Mannlicher .30-06. Manufactured in West Germany by Heym, and sold by Montgomery Wards: Edited August 10 by Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 (edited) 3 hours ago, Alpo said: Was JC Higgins actually a business? I thought it was just a brand name Sears roebuck put on their guns. Plus many other sporting goods, including bicycles, campstoves, and much else. Braniff Airlines. Edited August 10 by Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 3 hours ago, Alpo said: Was JC Higgins actually a business? I thought it was just a brand name Sears roebuck put on their guns. Thom McAn shoes Buster Brown shoes I'd read this years ago, but from "Wiki:" Quote The brand name, J. C. Higgins, was based on a real person, John Higgins who was a Sears employee. He moved from his birth country of Ireland to the United States in his late teens and began working for Sears in 1898. He spent his entire working career with Sears and was Vice President for the company for a period of time. He was actually born with no middle name but the Sears Co. presented the idea of labeling their sporting good line with his name and saw it more presentable labeling the brand as J.C. Higgins. He worked with the company until his retirement as head bookkeeper in 1930. Higgins died in 1950. The "brand" was later replaced by the Ted Williams marque.... Ted was a real person, too - a decorated WW II and Korean War fighter pilot (Navy), who also appeared on the Wheaties box and even played a little baseball once in a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackwater 53393 Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 (edited) Here’s a blast from the past! The Checker Marathon! CHECKER MOTORS!! Edited August 10 by Blackwater 53393 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Father Kit Cool Gun Garth Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 Bradlee’s lechmere filene’s Cleveland Indians, no wait, they’re not gone, just rebranded. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackwater 53393 Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 S&H Green Stamps A&P Grocery Hudson Ipana Toothpaste ARCO TWA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgavin Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 (Idaho) Stinker gas stations Fearless Farris was the genius behind them. He ran constant "gas wars" which I remember at $0.179 per gallon to fill my Honda 50. Moon's Sport & Tackle. My dad's office was right down the alley from the back door of Moon's. As a very young 'un, Dad used to send me with a $5 bill to buy a box of Panatella cigars. They always gave the correct change, and didn't think a thing of it. Sad to say, that whole way of life in Boise is now gone. Replaced by wall-to-wall overpriced housing, bad air and horrendous traffic. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 The names I was going to list are already listed. Except for some that were local to where I lived. Technology, the economy and bad business decisions have done all the businesses listed in. There are a couple restaurant chains that I miss. - Texas Land and Cattle Company. Made Texas Roadhouse and Longhorn’s look like amateurs. - Sticky Fingers. Fantastic food. - Bob’s Big Boy To name a couple. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bear Saint Paw Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 A&W, at least none I've seen in TX, OK and MO in years. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaleWolf Brunelle, #2495L Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 ARCO and A&W still alive and well hereabouts. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tex Jones, SASS 2263 Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 Pan Am Roy Rogers 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cypress Sun Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 Scottys (Fl based hardware stores) Chief Charlies (best steakhouse around here for years) The House of Hobbys (local hobby house that you couldn't even hardly walk around in, yet the owner, Bob, knew where every item was) Shooter's Shack (one of the coolest local gun stores around) Woolworths Zaires Maas Brothers Piedmont Airlines Pontiac Frisch's Big Boy (my first real job was at Frisch's, I ate pretty good working there as a freshly moved out of the house teen and they had REAL food) Biff Burger (always loved their double cheeseburgers) The Sandpiper Bar (had a lot of good times there...too good...glad they closed 45 years ago) Ryan's Gyms & Junk Concadora's (best place for Italian food, especially for pizza and Italian sausage/Parm sub). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rip Snorter Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 The original Abercrombie & Fitch - Gun Room with the full price range, basic up to Maharajah grade and price. Gunsmith always on duty! Knives, factory and custom, bought my Randall there. Fishing gear basic to sublime, expedition clothing, everything for the Sportsman. Truly amazing. I remember buying a rifle, having a scope mounted and bore sighted. Leaving the store with it and ammunition in a gun case to get on public transportation home. 1966 0r 1967 in New York City! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Okie Sawbones, SASS #77381 Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 Blockbuster Tower Records Circuit City Waldenbooks A&P Casa Bonita Chi Chi's Fotomat Levitz Furniture Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calamity Kris Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 Farrell's Ice Cream Island Sweet Shop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 I think what I miss most, and quite honestly, I have adapted well to all the above vanishing, I miss Mom & Pop type shops and stores. These have pretty much gone away in every state I have lived in. There are still a few around, but not like they used to be. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Zook Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 (edited) Phoenix AZ shops Bill Johnsons Big Apple - the lady's serving all wore a holstered shooting iron on their hip w/ sawdust on the floor, swept up nightly and new placed before shop opened for the next day. Mary Coyle's Ice Cream Parlor Bob's Big Boy (Big Boy & slice of Strawberry pie [ pre-Marie Calenders restaurants] Brookshires Bobby McGee's LaBelle's (catalogue showroom type store) later became BEST. Service Merchandise GEMCO Fedmart HandyMan store (had character that looked like Dagwood Bumstead in their ads) K-mart (switched to K-MOMO and petered out) Fuddrucker's Yellow Front (Checker auto parts usually right next door) Chief Auto Parts (owned by Southland Corporation & 7-11 was in same building. Woolco/Woolworths (had the lunch counter and soda jerk stand) Newberry's McCrory's TG&Y Sprouse Reitz Wards Levitz Yates Super X (drug store) REVCO Lou Grubb Chevrolet SuperShops Lopers (race car parts) Farrells Ice cream Parlor Appetitos (italian grinder shop) Alpha Beta AJ Bayless (they gave green stamps) Lucky's Smitty's O'Malley's Entz-White Payless Cashways Goldwater's Bullocks Diamonds Circles Records and Tapes Popular Surplus (renamed Popular Outdoor Outfitters - until they went under) Edited August 10 by Dr. Zook add store Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Dan Dawkins Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 Blockbuster Turtles Record and Tape World Food Giant McCrorys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badlands Bob #61228 Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 Sky City Del Taco A&P grocery store Sinclair gas Gulf gas Kmart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted August 10 Author Share Posted August 10 1 hour ago, Badlands Bob #61228 said: Sky City Del Taco A&P grocery store Sinclair gas Gulf gas Kmart Del Taco is still round. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted August 10 Author Share Posted August 10 Arther Treacher Lums Mervyns Miller'sOutpost Payless Shoes Robert Hal Gemco Color Tile Fazio's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kloehr Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 9 hours ago, Blackwater 53393 said: Here’s a blast from the past! The Checker Marathon! CHECKER MOTORS!! The Humber Super Snipe: I had one for a while. Got the engine running, got the transmission put together and installed it. Sold it still needing brakes. The next buyer got it driving. Really interesting car, designed for driving by a chauffeur, had gorgeous folding burl wood trays in the rear seats for the passengers. Full leather interior. Company closed in '67, someone still owns the name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 7 hours ago, Pat Riot said: The names I was going to list are already listed. Except for some that were local to where I lived. Technology, the economy and bad business decisions have done all the businesses listed in. There are a couple restaurant chains that I miss. - Texas Land and Cattle Company. Made Texas Roadhouse and Longhorn’s look like amateurs. - Sticky Fingers. Fantastic food. - Bob’s Big Boy To name a couple. There’s 2 Bobs Big Boy still alive here in Ohio. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bob's big boy ohio&iaxm=maps&source=places&iai=5060327 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kloehr Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 Good Guys Electronics (TV, Stereos). West coast, bought out by Comp USA. Fry's Grocery stores. Last to use union checkout employees, folded due to costs of not utilizing bar codes on products, costs of putting price stickers on every item. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tex Wilson Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 (edited) We still have Fry's grocery stores, Del Taco, Sinclair gas and Casa Bonita here in Arizona. Edited August 10 by Tex Wilson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sedalia Dave Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 Radio Shack. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 Bed, Bath and Beyond Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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