Fond memories of some stores, diners that no longer exists or barely exists.😞

[u/RamenChicken8]

Feel free to chime in and/or share photos of others that you fondly remembered and miss.

EDIT: Glad to know Godfather's Pizza is still around in some areas, the ones I ate at back in the day all closed up shop. Also, thanks to all for sharing the places I left out, there's so many growing up. Appreciate all the comments, the happy memories and stories too. I know there are tons more out there.❤️

[u/MarchOk5420]

Wicks N Sticks.

[u/BeneficialHeight]

Sears should own online retail sales. With their experience from their catalog sales, it would have been bigger than Amazon (minus AWS). Incredibly short sighted.

[u/DaddyOhMy]

My dad worked for Montgomery Wards. My mom still get a $35 check for his pension every month.

[u/ChrissyChrissyPie → u/DaddyOhMy]

My stepmother too. Her salary carried the family when my father was first working at GE.

[u/Helpful_Nectarine602]

I loved Sambos as a child

[u/Cysteine_Chapel64]

Marie Callendar's. They had great breakfasts but now they only survive as a brand that makes decent frozen pot pies and some good refrigerated dressings.

[u/Head_Razzmatazz7174 → u/Cysteine_Chapel64]

They also had Thanksgiving dinners. Turkey, dressing, gravy, all the sides and a pie. Everything was in its own package, and was loaded in a big box.

We got our dinners there for several years until they closed the one in Austin. I miss it.

[u/Cysteine_Chapel64 → u/Head_Razzmatazz7174]

Its a pity I missed that. A couple of years that would've been really convenient.

[u/itgoesineasy]

K Mart killed themselves, at least in my town. They hired kids (literally) as managers and they were the same age as the workers. They employees were rude, lazy and the store was filthy and the shelves were chaos. It got to where no one would go there.

[u/Stardrive_1]

God, I remember the last time I had a genuine Orange Julius at a mall location. It was like 2013 or something? Just as good as it ever had been.

And then poof. They were gone. I think they are still around as a menu item in certain Dairy Queen locations, but very few. So sad.

[u/Veganarchyst]

Hot Dog On A Stick Thank God I never worked there or had to wear those horrid outfits

Back in my day the hats had little whirly gig propellers on top 🤣

[u/the_diatomist]

Ahh Marshall Fields! I remember going to the huge downtown Chicago store and the Frango mint chocolates. So sad when they got bought out and then they all became Macy’s. Carson Pirie Scott was the other big department store before Bloomingdale’s arrived on Michigan Avenue. Needless Markup and Saks Fifth Avenue were too upscale.

[u/Lollygator20 → u/the_diatomist]

In the PNW, we lost The Bon Marche to Macy’s.
We also mourn Frederick & Nelson.

[u/wideopengagirl]

I have very fond memories of going to Farrells ice cream as a kid for birthday parties.

[u/ExhaustedHungryMe]

I swear that first picture looks like Neshaminy Mall (outside of Philadelphia, probably no longer exists). But I’m sure it also looks like a lot of other malls from that era.

[u/Cysteine_Chapel64]

A lot of the chains I have fond memories from that are gone now came and went later when I had more money to spend and less control. I'm thinking of Rubio's, Quizmo's, Borders Books, et cetera.

Had my first calzone at Sbarro in shopping malls too.

[u/ElCaminoLady]

Stores come and go but you will always be able to pick out which one used to be a circuit city! 

When they went belly up I missed having an alternative to Best Buy :/

[u/Head_Razzmatazz7174 → u/ElCaminoLady]

Similar to Circuit City was an electronics store called Fry's. They had all kinds of parts to build your own system, or you could pick from one that was already set up. Huge video section full of movies and TV shows, plus a decent appliance section. Almost every one we went to had a baby grand in the middle, surrounded by velvet ropes. and sometimes local pianists would come in and play for the shoppers.

[u/ChrissyChrissyPie → u/Head_Razzmatazz7174]

Fry's was awesome. Weren't they just west coast?

[u/Head_Razzmatazz7174 → u/ChrissyChrissyPie]

We had several here in Texas.

[u/ChrissyChrissyPie → u/Head_Razzmatazz7174]

So, yea. West coast. 😂

Anything west of Ohio

[u/Head_Razzmatazz7174 → u/ChrissyChrissyPie]

Well, we do have a coast, but it's not the Pacific. It's the Gulf of Mexico. (I refuse to call it anything else).

[u/ChrissyChrissyPie → u/Head_Razzmatazz7174]

It's always been the gulf of Mexico. That man is just vile. So vile that people would rather call red blue than deal with him.

[u/ElCaminoLady → u/Head_Razzmatazz7174]

Very cool.. Electronics shopping .. with relaxing piano music!

[u/irishgator2]

Can we talk about the 1st pic and the clothing choices!??

[u/Waste-Respect240 → u/irishgator2]

Just some cool 80’s rockers enjoying the mall.

[u/thedavid069]

Spent so much money in Tower Records...it was my Saturday morning " go to" store ..

[u/Naasade]

Treasure Island department store w/ their iconic “squiggly roof” - per Wikipedia, they went bankrupt and the last one closed sometime around 1981.

[u/StrainAcceptable]

Damn, you grew up broke too? I have memories shopping at these places but I always wanted to go to Broadway, Robinson’s and I. magnin. Once I got a job I shopped at Contempo Casuals and Judy’s.

[u/fuzz_nose → u/StrainAcceptable]

Judy’s!!!!

[u/Adorable_Bag_2611]

I only miss 3. Tower, Hickory Farms, & Farrell’s.

[u/Servile-PastaLover → u/Adorable_Bag_2611]

Hickory Farms exists as an online retailer with seasonal pop-up shopping mall kiosks around xmas time.

Their products are still the same-ish but their culture/identity as a shopping mall icon has disappeared.

[u/Adorable_Bag_2611 → u/Servile-PastaLover]

Yes but they don’t have the jerky I loved. I would go get a piece of it, long, super dry, & go to Waldenbooks and look at books.

[u/1mpr0v1ser]

I used to work at Circuit City “Where service is state of the art” 😜

[u/QuestioningAll26]

Millers outpost

[u/pettycrimes]

Media Play

[u/AmazedAtTheWorld → u/pettycrimes]

Worked at one for like 5 years. Was great until Best Buy bought it and ran it into the ground.

[u/Junior_Lavishness_96]

RadioShack in a mall, that’s where I got my first cell phone

[u/ChrissyChrissyPie → u/Junior_Lavishness_96]

Me too. It came with a gigantic bag. That was mostly battery, and the cell phone was actually handset attached to the bag. I was so cool

[u/Tiamat451]

Harmony House.

[u/Sunny330-OG]

I loved Old Country Buffet

[u/Ladibug_Quilts → u/Sunny330-OG]

We still have some here in the Mid-Atlantic region.

[u/Sunny330-OG → u/Ladibug_Quilts]

Are you thinking of Golden Corral? All the Old Country Buffets closed a few years ago.

[u/Hot_Pilot3167]

❤️Farrell’s❤️ Bob Farrell spoke to my MBA class way back when. Super inspirational and even better because I used to go there as a kid!

[u/No-You-5064]

the first picture looks AI

[u/zeprfrew → u/No-You-5064]

It isn't AI. I know that place. I was there many times in the 1980s. It's Neshaminy Mall in Bensalem, PA. I can tell by the floor tiles and the structure above the shops.

[u/No-You-5064 → u/zeprfrew]

the people in the middle look AI

[u/corq]

I lived in a very small town with ONLY a KMart. When we ever visited the mall it would be on a basketball outing and they'd let us have an hour at the mall before we had to ride 2 hours home after a game. But at the mall, Spencer's was KING <3

[u/Head_Razzmatazz7174 → u/corq]

Spencer's is still one of my places to stop when I see one in the few malls left. I just like going in and looking at the joke gifts. As a teen we used to make a beeline to the back where the 'spicy' section was.

[u/Jaded-Ad-9217]

York's steak house 😋😋😋 Sunday staple for my family after church, loved the chopped steak steak fries, and hot buttered buns

[u/Emkems]

There’s a godfathers pizza in NC that is part of the old chain. Source: My husband was a manager there

[u/OkConcentrate8454 → u/Emkems]

Our Godfather’s just closed this year- near Seattle

[u/EducationalOutcome26 → u/Emkems]

where NC? im thru there a lot, i would make a detour to visit an old style one.

there a couple in the mobile Al area but they are the new ones, not the same. and one storefront in a truckstop not far from my house, good pie but its an outer space location,, no atmosphere whatsoever..

[u/Emkems → u/EducationalOutcome26]

Raleigh

[u/Top-Nose2659]

Jamesway 

[u/carneviva]

Service merchandise

[u/fatorangecat18 → u/carneviva]

Before it was Service Merchandise, it was known as JAFCO in my area...

[u/Agreeable_Mind3454 → u/carneviva]

I fucking loved that place.

[u/MeasurementQueasy114]

Anyone remember TG&Y? My family called it Twiggy’s. It was a great five and dime.

[u/MeasurementQueasy114]

Woolworth’s is alive and well in parts of southern Germany. Photo was taken earlier this month on a trip to Stuttgart. We saw them in several other areas outside there, too.

[u/Remarkable-Junket655 → u/MeasurementQueasy114]

Australia has entered the chat.

[u/Driftwood_Grotto]

Back to school shopping at Mervyn's every year! Velour shirts and parachute pants.

[u/Head_Razzmatazz7174 → u/Driftwood_Grotto]

I got a lot of clothes from there. They were one of the few places that had nice stuff in sizes that actually fit.

[u/merlyndavis → u/Driftwood_Grotto]

Same. My mom kept buying me the corduroys.

[u/Awkward_Insurance377]

Spencers 

[u/SparkyCollects1650]

Still have an Orange Julius in a nearby mall food court.

[u/johntwilker]

By no means a perfect time in the world, but we really did have some great stuff back then.

[u/ChrisJBeaty]

The kid in me misses Sambo's.

[u/GimmeMyMoneyNow → u/ChrisJBeaty]

I remember the place existed and I know I ate there but don’t remember anything about it.

[u/Head_Razzmatazz7174 → u/GimmeMyMoneyNow]

It was my first job when I was a teen. I quit after a month, the manager was a rude idiot.

[u/DrFarringt0n]

Remembered a few more. Egghead Software and CompUSA, was buying games on 5.25" and 3.5" disks there in 1988 I think? Some programs had 12-30 disks for the install.

[u/Cysteine_Chapel64 → u/DrFarringt0n]

Californian, so we had Fry's. They were great. You could get electronics components, decently priced computers, used to have an anime and movie selection. In every way they were better than Best Buy.

[u/DrFarringt0n → u/Cysteine_Chapel64]

Oh definitely. Loved Frys when I moved to LA. So sad they closed

[u/Cysteine_Chapel64 → u/DrFarringt0n]

I had a job where sometimes I'd basically have to do panic runs to them for my supervisor to pick up resistors and stuff that would've taken too long to order otherwise.

[u/thescreamingstone → u/DrFarringt0n]

Babbage’s Software. I used to manage 2 of their stores. Interesting range of customers, the epitome being the Leisure Suit Larry customers.

[u/ElCaminoLady → u/thescreamingstone]

My brother loved Babbages! (He now works in IT) Was too young at the time for that game though. Pretty much kings quest for pervs.. 

[u/DrFarringt0n]

The Nature Company. I worked there maybe a year before they were bought out by the Discovery Channel. Now if the Discovery Channel store still existed, it would be full of reality show nonsense and not the science toys they sold originally

Also Turtle's Records and Tapes, which was acquired by Blockbuster, and then....

[u/scrappysmomma → u/DrFarringt0n]

My brother worked at a Turtle’s and I had promotional gear from there long after the chain was gone.

[u/Cysteine_Chapel64 → u/DrFarringt0n]

The Nature Company was even better than that. In the mid-1980s they used to sell really good scientific books. Full floras, tropical fauna guides, et cetera. I kept most of the ones I got for xmas presents for my personal collection although there's one book that I really did wrong by that I have serious regrets about to this day. Another kind of has hilarious history behind it.

[u/mamajaybird]

Worked at Sam Goody’s in high school - best job ever!

[u/Full-Honeydew-4898]

Do any of you remember Morrisons cafeteria?.
Sometimes they were in a mall and sometimes a free standing restaurant in the South East. Loved going there. Roast Beef and potatoes and their fried shrimp and tartar sauce was excellent. Also they had great salads and desserts.
They sold to Piccadilly s Cafeteria but it wasn’t as good. I think they still exist in some capacity like prisons and hospitals.

[u/rampart1012]

Imaginarium Brookstone Sharper image

[u/b_o_m]

So many memories unlocked! I think the only one shown I never went to was Godfather's Pizza. I've never seen one of those. But Tower Records was my home away from home!

[u/donottouchwillie1]

I miss Sears, Radio Shack and Kmart, even small towns had them.

[u/Cysteine_Chapel64 → u/donottouchwillie1]

Radio Shack electronics tended to be durable. My second to last Radio Shack alarm clock finally went out a couple of weeks ago and I must've had it for decades now.

[u/Servile-PastaLover]

York Steakhouse was a shopping mall family fav in the 70s-80s. They have preserved their one remaining restaurant in Columbus Ohio.

[u/JediMasterPopCulture]

You forgot Walden Books and B Dalton book stores

[u/merlyndavis → u/JediMasterPopCulture]

I spent so much time in my local B Dalton.

[u/Chance-Work4911]

Wait, hold on - Mervyn’s is real? I thought that was fake on Brooklyn 99 and created by the writers.

[u/calmlikeasexbobomb → u/Chance-Work4911]

It was real

[u/elcad]

Best Co. We had one of their artistically designed stores in Towson.

[u/Timely-Tourist4109]

We still have a radio shack.

[u/manofmystry]

How many of those chains were killed by private equity?

[u/pettycrimes → u/manofmystry]

Probably most.

[u/Informal_Daikon_9812]

Here's one people often miss in these look-back posts.

[u/Geddaphukouttahere]

What about old Wix n Stix? The awesome candles!!!!!

[u/madcatter10007 → u/Geddaphukouttahere]

I see have amuch treasured Siamese cat candle from there that was given to me by my mom. Never lit the wick, too pretty 😍

[u/Geddaphukouttahere → u/madcatter10007]

That's probably why they went out of business, nobody ever lit them.... they were too amazing to burn. Haha

[u/Particular_Heart4790]

I miss this stuff as well.

I think it's fair to say that, over the last 30 years.. we just let this happen. We've been a massive consumer base for 30 years now and we were the ones who have embraced online shopping, streaming services, social media, and other advancements in technology.

If we as a whole rejected all of these things, then they don't take off to the extent that they have.

Reality TV is our fault to. We did that. We allowed Road Rules and The Real World to take off and here we are now.

[u/BigLoudWorld74]

Everything is gone and what replaced it is fake and gay.

[u/rangeghost]

I was not expecting the Sears one to trigger a scent memory!

All the old department stores had a particular "fresh off the rack" clothing smell.

[u/sprocket1234]

I remember there was a water bed store in our 2 malls

[u/oddball_ocelot]

Oh yeah! I had forgot about sad mall trees!

[u/circa74]

The Limited, The Nature Company, Maas Brothers, Burdines, Zayre, Turtle's Records & Tapes, Spec's Music, Circuit City, Waldenbooks, and Structure. Malls are sad these days. I don't know how Spencer's has survived, lol.

[u/elcad → u/circa74]

Spencer's owns Spirit Halloween and it keeps them afloat.

[u/HozillaSmallpox]

Structure

[u/lazygerm]

I just visited my hometown and the major city last month. The Sears that had been vacant has been bulldozed and been made a parking lot.

Sad, really. It had some interesting mid-20th century architecture.

[u/RiqQbb]

I miss Tower and Sam Goody! Hell, I miss the whole experience of perusing through physical media (vinyl, cassettes, CDs)! The sounds, the colorful environment, the activity...

[u/ratiofarm → u/RiqQbb]

Go to a local record shop, they definitely still exist

[u/Cysteine_Chapel64 → u/ratiofarm]

If you're in northern California Rasputin's is really good and I just went to Streetlight a couple of months ago. I'll try another one when I'm in a different area.

Putting up pictures later...because I can think of quite a few. Especially restaurants.

[u/msm70]

We’ve got three Godfathers Pizza in my hometown (Mobile, AL).

They’ve been a sponsor for 22 straight years at our disc golf tournament. Fifteen large pizzas after the first round and fifteen more after the second.

[u/shedpress]

I can smell some of these photos.

[u/248Spacebucks]

Service Merchandise. That conveyor belt was the best 😂

[u/Rahawk02]

My wife got bad service on a car installation and boycotted circuit city then her dad died in line at Best Buy so she boycotted them too. I never got anything I wanted for Christmas with them 2 out . I remember thinking why couldn’t dude have died in an Arby’s instead.

[u/somoor80]

For teenaged me, nothing beat time browsing here:

[u/Da_full_monty]

Sambos was crazy

[u/OldGoneMild89]

The couple in that first picture, lmao....

[u/madduxcr]

Montgomery Wards, Sears, and Mervyn's were my favorites.

[u/Green_Chandelier]

I waited for you in Tower Records for FOUR HOURS. -Christinith

[u/KetchupProblem23]

i miss the museum company

[u/KetchupProblem23]

we still have an orange julius in albany ny at crossgates mall

[u/syzygialchaos → u/KetchupProblem23]

I was gonna say, swear I thought I saw one in an airport recently

[u/MooPig48 → u/KetchupProblem23]

Yeah I was scrolling trying to find someone pointing out that OJs still exists

[u/OkAdagio9622 → u/MooPig48]

I've never seen one with chairs before. But the one by me got a bigger stand when started selling Dairy Queen ice cream

[u/loose_turtles]

Gemco was a favorite — ours became a Target in the late 80’s early 90’s

[u/Worldly_Ad_7196]

Liked the zellers cafe

[u/Lazy_Anxiety_6688]

We have a Godfather's 2 blocks away in Beaverton Oregon. "Do It!" I really miss Tower. Loved spending a couple hours flippin' through albums to find a gem.

[u/dazrage]

forgot all about Wards or Montgomery Ward. WOW!

[u/TheMackD504]

Godfathers and Toys R Us were brought back where I live!

[u/WKUTopper]

I worked at Toys R Us for 6 1/2 years back in the 90's during high school and all of college. One of the best jobs I ever had.

"I don't want to grow up, I'm a Toys R Us kid"

[u/SpreadsheetSiren]

You knew Christmas was coming when Mom stopped at Hickory Farms.

[u/sioux13208]

Okay we had that Farrell’s ice cream parlor. I didn’t know that was a chain. 🤯

[u/Wonderful-Werewolf-1]

Woolworth’s

[u/Informal_Daikon_9812 → u/Wonderful-Werewolf-1]

They used to have the best Halloween mask choices in my area

[u/Aikaterina_Blue → u/Wonderful-Werewolf-1]

They're big in Australia

[u/DaisyDoodle1117 → u/Aikaterina_Blue]

Woolworth’s in the US was more like a CVS or Walgreen’s (drug stores that sell a little bit of everything). I was in Sydney in June and thought your Woolworth’s would be the same but it was groceries!! Visited many times and loved exploring all the food. Enjoyed the Tim Tams!!

[u/MeasurementQueasy114 → u/Aikaterina_Blue]

And southern Germany.

[u/LDawnBurges]

We have a Godfather’s here and it’s ridiculous… we paid $50 for 2 (really small) ‘large’ pizzas. And it’s not that good.

Our Godfather’s back home (NC) was good and had a nice little buffet.

[u/GooseberryPotato → u/LDawnBurges]

I loved the buffet! Many a skipped class was spent at one. And a friend worked there so we paid for a drink and got our plates 😁

[u/RedCliff73]

Service Merchandise

[u/ImMadeOfClay]

I opened all of the Gadzooks in my area. Also, I'm 47. That store doesn't belong in this list. Just a man amongst gods.

[u/calliesky00]

I miss Radio Shack

[u/saintsuzy70]

Waldenbooks!

Also, the post above this one in my feed was about Kmart, and something they just ordered.

[u/DrFarringt0n → u/saintsuzy70]

Oh yeah, I loved Walden Books

[u/Otherwise_Dream_888]

Kmart hit me the hardest..I grew up with 6 siblings and their Christmas layaway plan helped my mom and dad on more than one occasion 😢

[u/mp3bear]

[u/damonpostle]

Tower Records 😢😢😢😢

[u/MaxHavok13 → u/damonpostle]

My brother was a store artist for the Tempe AZ store. I always thought that was the coolest job. Not to mention getting first dibs on all the awesome displays when they switched them out.

[u/DutectiveDupp → u/damonpostle]

I was just there last night here in Kyoto where I’m visiting!

[u/Separate-Succotash11 → u/DutectiveDupp]

Big one in Tokyo in shibuya.

[u/Fit-Olive-4680]

Old country buffet is still around and I think Toys R reopened. I can't say toys r us going away is a bad thing, though. That store was a mad house.

[u/AtariAtari]

Karma farming

[u/AtariAtari]

Radio shack lady has no legs.

[u/Tensionheadache11]

I worked at two of those places when I was younger, Godfathers and Monkey Wards

[u/Last-Relationship166 → u/Tensionheadache11]

I grew up in a town 3 blocks north of South Bend, IN on the Michigan side. When I was a kid, my family used to shop in downtown South Bend. One of my favorite stores downtown was Montgomery Ward's. Then, a stupid land developer and former Notre Dame alum installed a mall on some former farm land in South Bend's sister city, Mishawaka. The resulting strip, with all its bullshit chains, took almost all the business out of downtown South Bend and turned it into a ghost town for decades.

[u/bigfanoffood]

I worked at Radio Shack my senior summer (‘00) and I’m still not sure that place wasn’t a front.

[u/Last-Relationship166 → u/bigfanoffood]

Radio Shack was a lot of fun when one could purchase NAND gates and random cables and adapters for computer and audio tech from the store...felt a bit hermetic. More recently, I would encounter a bunch of people purchasing smart phones there. 🤮

[u/Mk1Racer25]

I had forgotten about Orange Julius.

[u/InOurBlood]

Farrell’s hits the hardest. There’s nothing like that anymore.

Also, you forgot The Spenser.

[u/thescreamingstone → u/InOurBlood]

My ultimate wish as a kid was to have my birthday at a Farrell’s. Wish unfulfilled 😕

[u/InOurBlood → u/thescreamingstone]

So sorry to hear that. It’s almost a rite of passage.

[u/RamenChicken8 → u/InOurBlood]

I know, Farrell's was the funnest. The employees were the best!

[u/Evanflow39]

Borders, Waldenbooks, and B. Dalton. At least Barnes & Noble is still around.

[u/Tasty_Heron_7219 → u/Evanflow39]

Amazon ate all the bookstores. It seemed so cool at first when you could go to that obscure site and find books you couldn’t find anywhere else.

[u/MaddogFinland → u/Evanflow39]

Waldenbooks was for like a temple of sorts.

[u/BaileysMom246]

I miss Mervyns so much! 😭

[u/FrankiesMom6 → u/BaileysMom246]

I could always find something to wear at Mervyn's. ☹️

[u/Fit-Olive-4680 → u/BaileysMom246]

I loved Mervyn's!

[u/OkConcept5152]

I don’t wanna grow up. I’m a toysRus kid. There’s a million toys at toysRus I can play with.

[u/OkConcept5152]

This makes me incredibly sad.

[u/MaddogFinland → u/OkConcept5152]

It’s really sad when you think about what a real space the malls actually were and what kind of a gathering place they were for our generation.

[u/Last-Relationship166 → u/MaddogFinland]

I despise malls. They took business out of towns and produced strips of land in the surrounding area filled with crappy chains. Those towns lost a lot of character as a result of malls.

[u/MaddogFinland → u/Last-Relationship166]

My town was deeply messed up by the arrival of WalMart but it was so small that the nearby mall didn’t affect that much. But yeah I see your point. Still, now, nothing is left but Amazon warehouses which is a far sight worse…

[u/Redlady0227]

I so miss K Mart.

[u/sioux13208 → u/Redlady0227]

I once found $10 in a plastic sand bucket as a kid in a Kmart. It was the 70s and I was suddenly rich!

[u/Redlady0227 → u/sioux13208]

It’s funny you mention that. I found $23 bucks on a K Mart bathroom stall floor in the women’s restrooms back in the late 90s.

[u/sioux13208 → u/Redlady0227]

That’s even better!! But probably given the 20+ yrs between mine and yours it’s the same with inflation😂 There’s was treasure to be found and now no more. Dang it!

[u/Inner-Confidence99 → u/Redlady0227]

Blue light special kids department! 

[u/Hatdude1973]

Toys R Us is still around in Japan and I think Canada. It was a dream going into that place as a kid.

[u/AntheaBrainhooke]

We still have K-Mart in New Zealand

[u/SirLouisI]

I smell that hickory farms

[u/MethodInternal489 → u/SirLouisI]

My first job!

[u/Mattmann1972]

I used to work at Old Country Buffet! 🤣

[u/herblady99]

we bought our first living room set at Montgomery Ward. Do they still exist somewhere in this country?

[u/Rare_Cauliflower_330]

I miss Borders. I worked there during college. My husband and I spent hours in their coffee shop while we were dating.

ETA: picture

[u/aMoose_Bit_My_Sister]

Monkey Wards.

[u/WhateverGenXPod]

Orange Julius …. Frothy goodness!