And here it is. I always loved Best! I bought my first Christmas gifts in the USA there. I can close my eyes and still see it. It just brings a lot of memories.

@BIGBLOCK5022006

2 жыл бұрын

There used to be a Best store on Carpenter Road in Ypsilanti Michigan but it got converted into a flooring store. I remember seeing the sign behind the building on US 23 north going towards Washtenaw.

@KC8EWU

Жыл бұрын

​@@BIGBLOCK5022006there also was in Wyoming, originally Roger's Catalog Showroom. Now subdivided into Harbor Freight, Jets Pizza and had a Big Lots which moved as part of its floor for some reason kept sinking.

ALCO and Shopko will always have a VERY special place in my heart I will never forget them...

I do remember shopping at Gottschalks a lot up until they closed in 2009. My hometown had 3 locations, 2 were at the same mall after Gottschalks merged with Harris (another great department store chain that also went defunct by 2009). I also remember shopping at BEST a few times as a kid. Funnily enough, my local BEST store would later become a Best Buy store 😂.

@undergroundretail

2 жыл бұрын

That is very "ironic" that Best Buy took over a former BEST location. seems like they just needed to add "Buy" 😂

@ThePirateprincess23

2 жыл бұрын

@@undergroundretail 😂😆🤣

@willielarimer7170

Жыл бұрын

@Underground Retail how about leachmears, Drug emporium, and Pharmore?

Good to see another installment! Nice work!

@undergroundretail

2 жыл бұрын

Thank You so Much!!!

I don't believe there's ever been a department store with more incompetent senior management than Best Products. They built a superb chain of store and then ran the company straight into the ground with lack of innovation, bad store locations and many other bad decisions.

@undergroundretail

Жыл бұрын

I agree!

@KC8EWU

Жыл бұрын

Another to add too that, their direct competitor, Whitmark. They had two locations in the Grand Rapids, MI area. One in the former Eastbrook Mall (in city) and other on Plainfeild Avenue, north of Grand Rapids. That was a stand alone location, building demolished last year after years of neglect, for stupid reasons apparently. Right across street from a Kmart! Which anchored the former North Kent Mall, with Montgomery Wards as the other anchor. Another department store my mom shopped at all the time was Steketees (Eastbrook Mall) and Colortile. Which was in Rodgers Plaze in Wyoming, Michigan. That mall was anchored by Rodgers Catalouge Showroom, before it became Best, other end Montgomery Wards. Former Wards Auto Center on Plainfeild, is now a Plainfeild Fire station. Before that you could tell where its gas pumps once stood.

@jamescook9661

Жыл бұрын

Most of americas millionaire Executives couldn't manage a lemonade stand

Woolworths: absolutely loved the lunch counter!

If you are from the Midwest, Wisconsin and the UP (and old enough) you probably can finish this jingle: "Say hello to a good buy at..." . Is it stuck in your head? Your welcome!

When I was little my mom shopped at Montgomery Ward. I used to shop at Pamida, but it's pronounced Pa-my-da. It was a great store.

If you do a part 5 include Sage department stores and Gemco. There was a Sage store close to where i grew up in west Houston. Gemco was a early attempt at a membership department store. Gemco's were not around long.

@undergroundretail

2 жыл бұрын

Great Suggestions! Gemco is indeed in line for a future installment. Stay Tuned 😃

In Illinois there was also a ‘Venture’ discount. Somewhere around ‘84-‘85. Don’t know how long it lasted. Also a ‘Builder’s Square’ , like a Home Depot….but, there weren’t any Home Depot yet where I lived. There was also a Zayre as was mentioned in the previous episodes. There was also ‘Goldblatts’…..had everything, even a bulk candy counter. Then there was ‘Arlans’ discount. Anyone hear of these? Also ‘Pranges’, a really nice department store.

@graytabbie

2 жыл бұрын

We had a Venture in Springfield, MO too. Also similar stores called Gibson's and Shopper's Fair.

@glennso47

2 жыл бұрын

Ardans Catalog Stores, Ks Merchandise, PharMor Pharmacy,

@undergroundretail

2 жыл бұрын

Venture discount is a great suggestion! I have a "Forgotten Home Improvements Stores" in the works as well. Your other suggestions are awesome and I'm taking notes.

@undergroundretail

2 жыл бұрын

A video on PharMor Pharamacy can be found here kzread.info/dash/bejne/na2WrLuqqZfUptI.html

@295g295

2 жыл бұрын

@@graytabbie VENTURE began as a part of May/Famous-Barr. ... Just as Target began as a part of Dayton-Hudson and Clover was a part of Philadelphia's Strawbridge & Clothier.

What about Olan Mills photography? Used to work for them back in the 70's selling their specials by phone. Had fun doing that too.

@PK-bh1ww

2 жыл бұрын

Both my kids were photographed by Olan Mills. My son is now 51. They set up 1st in Sears and then KMART. (Later KMART bought out Sears then closed many stores.). Olan Mills wasn't a dept store tho...

@undergroundretail

2 жыл бұрын

Never heard of this one. 🤔

@conleykat

2 жыл бұрын

@@PK-bh1ww I remember Olan Mills.

@Dh-rp7gg

Жыл бұрын

Olan Mills had there own store front in Grand Rapids Michigan. They did most of the Senior pictures from the surrounding highschools. My brother in 78 and mine in 84. Not sure after that. I think most school districts had them come and take the yearbook pictures too.

@COMPFUNK2

Жыл бұрын

I have lived in Milwaukee all my life so I definitely remember taking family portraits at Olan Mills. But it wasn’t a department store.

It's been decades since the time when thousands of independent department stores dotted the American landscape. But in the latter half of the 20th Century, large corporate department stores, like Walmart, put thousands of small town department stores out of business! Both the working owners and employees were left jobless, and together with other large corporations, owned by private individuals who do no work at all, sent factories overseas to places where children and desperately poor adults work in the most squalid of conditions for pennies an hour, or used their stolen wealth to weaken unions in the US in order to pressure workers to accept huge pay cuts, leaving American workers no other way to survive other than to take the pitifully low wages and zero-to-no benefits, such as what the typical Walmart employee receives! Interestingly, the justifications for stealing wealth from workers goes directly back to when the owners of large lands excused their claim to own, not just the wealth workers created, but the workers themselves--overt slavery! They, too, bragged about how "generous" they were, "providing homes, clothing and food" to their "servants"! They further claimed to have delivered their slaves from pagan darkness and "provided them with honest work"! Sure, we can be glad that over slavery was outlawed in the US, but the owner class has, ever since then, done all they can to get as close as they can to enslaving the vast majority of Americans by claiming it's OK to own, if not the workers themselves, all the wealth their work creates, only to return a very small portion of it back to them, and they return even less every chance they get! Rick Lannoye, author of www.amazon.com/Capitalism-Slavery-Taking-Workers-Illegal/dp/B08BD9CWLP

@undergroundretail

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this as it is very informative! Sometimes as workers we forget that we are here to make a company more money while getting paid the bare minimum. I checked the link you provided and that's awesome you are an Author! I will defiantly be purchasing your book soon 😊.

@ValerieDee123

2 жыл бұрын

It's all monopolies now. For some reason I thought monopolies were illegal. Yes I'm being sarcastic. I'm tired of only a handful of stores. It's wrong! It's modern day slavery!

@ch1ckmom217

Жыл бұрын

@@undergroundretail Same here, I want to read more on the subject. Thank you Rick for sharing your book with us, I guess you got yourself two more readers.

This is a good channel. I always appreciate those who stick to their theme "o)

@undergroundretail

Жыл бұрын

Thank You 😃

Amazing work! I absolutely love reminiscing about some of my favorite childhood stores. Would love to see Jamesway, Ames, and Hess featured down the line. Also loved seeing Steve and Barry's featured. We had one about 20 minutes away that my dad would always take me to for clothes.

@undergroundretail

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Ames was featured on Part 1 and Jamesway is a Great Suggestion!

Two Guys,Hills,Ames,WT Grant,Woolworth,AM&A’s,Murphy’s,GEX,Hens&Kelly’s,K mart, Twin Fair,and more I can’t remember.

Wow. BARNEYS! That store was FUN & FABULOUS! l loved the CHRISTMAS WINDOWS on 7th Avenue (at 16th). They used to do the trees out front in rainbow colors at Christmas time!

@undergroundretail

2 жыл бұрын

I'm sad to see this chain fold. Online shopping really killed a lot of legacy stores.

I used to work at a Shopko in Lincoln, NE.......many, many, many years ago. Btw, Pamida is pronounced pa-MY-da, not pa-ME-da.

@debraseiber8820

2 жыл бұрын

My sister used work as a regional manager for Shop-Ko in Northern Utah

@undergroundretail

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for catching that! 😃 Was it a standalone store or connected to a shopping center?

@debraseiber8820

2 жыл бұрын

@@undergroundretail some were stand alone and some were connected to other stores they're all closed or sold

@heatherhillman1

2 жыл бұрын

@@undergroundretail Strip mall...... I guess.

@liberalsarefools7687

Жыл бұрын

I work at pamida in Ohio that used to be a big wheel

Its sad, when stores close When your used to seeing them

@undergroundretail

2 жыл бұрын

I agree! Very devastating.

I visited mc Raes in Mississippi. Nice store.

Maybe in a future installment, you could include Schottenstein's/Value City Department Stores. Began in 1916 by Ephraim L. Schottenstein on S. Parsons Ave. in Columbus OH, with the first expanded location on 1887 S. Parsons Ave in 1947, it was the first department store in Columbus to actually open on Sundays (and closed on Saturdays, the Jewish Sabbath). Another Schottenstein location opened in 1961 on Westerville Rd, which became the North Store (also where the corporate office was located). During the 70s and 80s an East and West store were added. However, when Schottenstein began expanding outside of Columbus, they would become known as Value City Department Stores (the family's rabbi made it a rule that any of their stores in Columbus HAD to be named after the family). Schottenstein began to acquire more stores, often renaming them after the store plus Value City (like Grampa's-Value City in St. Louis, when the company bought them in 2002), as well as buying Filene's Basement, Widman's and American Eagle Outfitters. By 2002 the company, now officially known as Retail Ventures Inc., had 117 stores under the Schottenstein/Value City Dept. Stores umbrella. But because of poor management and misguided supply decisions (many of the item suppliers for our store, such as N. V. Spring (fishing supplies), hardware suppliers, paint and Health and Beauty Care, were eliminated under the idea our buyers could do better...they couldn't), plus expanding way too fast, the original store on S. Parsons was shuttered in March 2005, along with two Grampa's stores), then they renamed the three remaining Schottenstein stores Value City stores in Columbus (how they got by with this is a particularly shameful story for another time) soon after. But in December 2008, all remaining Value City Department Stores were shuttered, about a week before Christmas. These days, what remains of the original Schottenstein Stores are the East store, which was sold to Burlington Coat Factory...not sure if that's still open. The West Store eventually was sold to a small clothing outfit and is still open. The North Store was never sold, and today is an abandoned husk....a couple of people have done videos of the place over the past year for KZread, and the original store on S. Parsons? Torn down around 2010 and today a Primary One health center stands in its place. I still have a few bricks from where it was being torn down, since I worked there from 1992 to the end. Just for old time's sake, I guess.

Nice job Rasheed! They are redoing our old mall now thinking about putting a casino in it!

@undergroundretail

2 жыл бұрын

Thank You! I heard about that as well. We'll see if they can make that happen.

It's weird how some of them went out of business and closed and I never really even noticed. Paces like Hills and Gold Circle and Korvette's just disappeared and I never noticed before until you mentioned them. I guess I just wasn't paying attention.

My Mom shopped regularly at Emporium-Capwell and Best, seems like she was at one or the other all the time...

I had completely forgotten about gold circle. I remember there was a store in that shopping center called elder berhman, we used to buy our shoes there when I was a kid.

@willielarimer7170

Жыл бұрын

I remember Richway turned into Gold Circle, then Target took over in Charlotte

Well done

Wow, Best had one wild and unique entrance there. Still hoping for coverage of some Long Island, NY lost stores like Jamesway, Alexanders, Great Eastern, Modells (yes, once a department store before they did sporting goods), Times Square Stores & Korvettes. If you ever cover defunct toy stores then Play World simply must be covered.

@undergroundretail

2 жыл бұрын

Best did have one of the wildest entrances ever! Korvettes was covered in either Part 1 or 2. Times Square Stores have been suggested a few times, so I may go ahead and put that on the list. @Post-Mortar did do some documentaries on a few Toy Stores, you should check him out. kzread.info/dash/bejne/fHunyptmgduepLg.html . I will have some Forgotten Toy Stores, Banks, and Entertainment/Arcades lined up for 2022. 😃

@dalemorison7918

2 жыл бұрын

For what it's worth, Korvette's was covered in a previous episode.

@653j521

2 жыл бұрын

Will someone find a Best in the future and think it had been hit by an earthquake or tornado? :)

@undergroundretail

2 жыл бұрын

@@653j521 I would think it’s not open at all and under reconstruction 😂

@katherineskrzynecki3347

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, Jamesway!

Plz make part 5 these videos are awesome to watch also I know a department store that went out of business Bon-Ton and it’s other six department stores such as Boston Store, Bergners, Carson’s, Elder Beerman, Herbergers, And Younkers. They all liquidated in 2018.

@undergroundretail

Жыл бұрын

A Bon Ton edition is defiantly in the works and already written out. Stay tuned for this Fall. 😊

@PurplePuppy2006

Жыл бұрын

Oh that’s great!!! 😃 Additional info: We actually might see the The Bon Ton back as a store again . The reason for this because of this company BrandX wants to revive The Bon Ton and Stage Stores brands . They made an e-commerce website this summer, and will open a Carson’s brick and mortar store at Louis Joliet Mall and will open in February or Spring of 2023. The articles I read were pretty new as they were posted a month ago, even Wikipedia had something to say too. They also announced a Younkers location too, but that is undisclosed at the moment. So I honestly think we are going to see this brand again.

I miss BEST, their store in Burnsville MN had a very extensive selection of keyboards, probably a 25 foot aisle’s worth! They even had one those Bandai Pair/Match games, AKA the little pyramid shaped devices on the Ten Forward tables on ST:TNG. My aunt had several of their catalogs too. I’ve also been to Alco and ShopKo. Had many of my glasses done through their Optical department.

I just finished watching all 4 of these videos, was surprised to not see a single one of the 4 stores I grew up with. GC Murphy's, McCrorys, Hecks, Fishers Big Wheel. I worked at Murphy's Mart from 1981 to 1986, my mom worked at Fishers from 1972 to 1999.

@undergroundretail

2 жыл бұрын

Those are all great suggestions! I will be sure to cover as many department stores as I can.

@Prof_Jeff

2 жыл бұрын

I remember GC Murphy's and McCrory's.

Best department stores had some great architecture. The part of the video showing 9 different stores with unusual architecture, i recognized the middle one. It was located in southeast Houston

@undergroundretail

Жыл бұрын

I agree! It was ahead of its time. I heard only 1 former location, has retained the architecture.

Cussins and Fearns Hardware in Columbus O opened Buckeye Mart. Then became Gambles Buckeye Mart, Then Bought by Fisher's Big Wheel. Also was a Heck's discount Store. Gambles owned 2 or 3 different department stores.

I just passed by the former Best Product store in Hialeah, FL today (the glass terrarium one at 7:55). It has since been turned into a shared space between Office Depot and a storage center. Now they just repainted the building red and white to match Office Depot's color scheme.

@undergroundretail

Жыл бұрын

That's cool that the building is still standing!

@Emigdiosback

Жыл бұрын

@@undergroundretail the only thing left of the terrarium are the planters with some trees growing in them.

McRae's were once located at Western Hill Mall, Century Plaza Mall, Rivrchase Galleria, Roebuck, Downtown and Brookwood Village in the 80s/90s down here in Birmingham Al after it was changed to Pizitz

@undergroundretail

2 жыл бұрын

That's cool! Thanks for Watching!😁

Used to shop at Heck’s and Magic Mart. GC Murphy and Ben Franklin as well. I do remember Hills. That’s where I got school clothes for high school. Steve and Barry’s was cool.

@dalemorison7918

2 жыл бұрын

Believe it or not, I actually remember the Ben Franklin department stores. We had one not far from us in Sussex Boro, New Jersey, during the late 1980s and very early 1990s. Used to be one of our best and closed located sources for arts & crafts supplies. Fabrics, accessories, notions, extensive lines of stuff, used to get A Lot of creative ideas for different projects there, and prices were good, too.

@undergroundretail

2 жыл бұрын

Those are great suggestions! Heck's would be included in the next installments and working on doing a Forgotten 5 and Dime stores.

Memories of Wanamakers in center city Philadelphia: Meet at the Eagle, the huge organ, the light show at Christmas, high tea in the cafeteria, the toy floor and its elevated train ride around the perimeter (great view of almost all the toys).

Those crazy looking Bests did not look like the Best's I remember. The exterior was just normal and the interior was not like a costco there were toys, sporting goods, a big jewelry section, electronics, pretty much everything but clothes. It looked like a regular store except when you told them what you wanted it came down on a conveyor belt behind where you bought it. Kid me always wanted to know what was at the other end of the conveyor belt.

I worked for a company that had offices in the old BEST store on W. Marshall Street. I used to shop there with my mom when I was a kid.

@undergroundretail

2 жыл бұрын

Was it one of the stores that had the wild entrances?

A few you may have missed were Roses (NC and SC), Sky City (NC) and Pace warehouse (CO)

@willielarimer7170

Жыл бұрын

Loved Rose's in Charlotte, great prices on cds and dvds, and Pace warehouse in Charlotte but Sam's ran them off

Korvettes on the Roosevelt Boulevard (far northeast Philadelphia). Located in a strip mall, Korvettes was the anchor store. Those of us who grew up there still refer to the Korvettes Mall.

Barring Barneys (where I remember getting a suit in the 80s) I never shopped at--or heard of--any of these. But that may be owing to the fact that several of these chains didn't have outlets in the northeast. Although there MAY have been a Best near where I lived between 1992 and 2008, but if there was, I never shopped there.

@Prof_Jeff

2 жыл бұрын

This appears to be a common comment ("never heard of any of these") on videos for defunct stores and restaurants. I believe that being very regional (primarily northeast, midwest, southeast, etc.) or being limited to certain states or cities (I can think of several defunct restaurant "chains" that never had very many locations, and those were limited to major cities such as New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, etc.) plays a large role in this. That and some going the way of the dinosaur before many viewers were born. 😀

Hudson's in Detroit area bought by Macy's, grocery stores .. farmer jacks bought by A&P

@loydkline4686

Жыл бұрын

Metro detroit used have A&P& farmer jacks,, ❤️ farmer jack potatoes salid& barbeque chicken

Hills had locations in the Piedmont Triad area of North Carolina, and the one that was closest to me was in High Point.

@tabithamashburn8786

2 жыл бұрын

My family liked to shop at the Hill’s in Johnson City, TN

One store I haven’t seen listed is Gilchrist’s. It was one of the ‘big three’ department stores in Boston, MA along with Filene’s and Jordan Marsh. Don’t remember when it closed, but it was sometime in the 70’s. They had almost a dozen locations in Massachusetts at one point. All three stores are now gone, sadly.

@bbunny60

Жыл бұрын

I miss Jordan Marsh and Filene’s.

Two I thought would be included in this series was Pomeroy's, mid Atlantic dept store chain and Korvette's. You did mention Korvette's but didn't go into any detail. Great series!

@EddiMoFetti

Жыл бұрын

Lol my last name is Pomroy so weird to think that a family had the same last name as me but with a e added in

I miss Woolworths and Levitz (furniture store). Mom would spend hours browsing all the different furniture layouts in Levitz before deciding on a bed frame or dresser. They sold quality furniture unlike IKEA.

@BIGBLOCK5022006

2 жыл бұрын

Levitz has it all.

@02chevyguy

Жыл бұрын

@@BIGBLOCK5022006 "You'll Love It At Levitz".

steve and barrys is a store i wouldve LOVED, im so sad i never got to see it

@undergroundretail

4 ай бұрын

Me too 😭

I miss shopping at Shopko, it had better quality merchandise than Walmart.

@PK-bh1ww

2 жыл бұрын

Our was the same quality but higher priced than WW.

@Prof_Jeff

2 жыл бұрын

@@PK-bh1ww Similar experience here. For a few years I lived in a city where ShopKo was in a mall with a J.C. Penney; the mall was across the main road from Walmart and across a side street from Kmart. Those other three retailers had better prices on comparable (often identical) products.

@Dh-rp7gg

Жыл бұрын

My daughter loved shopping there for back to school clothes. In our itty bitty town it was Shopko or Walmart. Now we drive 3 hours to a larger city with more places to shop.

I remember going to the White Front in LA. My mom would take me and we would do some shopping there. Nice store. To bad thay are no longer with us I wish that thay were.

@undergroundretail

2 жыл бұрын

I have never visited that chain, but heard great things about it.

We had a Steve & Barry's in our area for a few years. Still have some nice winter coats from there. However, I don't recall it being a department store; I remember it only being a clothing store. 🤔

@loydkline4686

Жыл бұрын

Ann arbor, michigan

Borrowing money for huge expansion seems to be a common theme in retail bankruptcy

@undergroundretail

Жыл бұрын

Agreed! 💯

Can you do Ann and Hope ?

@undergroundretail

2 жыл бұрын

Great suggestion!

I don't remember seeing you mention Murphy's, Heironimus (sp?), or Miller & Rhodes? The first 2 were in the same shopping center with Best. HA!! I remember the Best catalog but we also had a store. I remember being able to pick up items at the store but there was also an actual store that sold merchandise.

@undergroundretail

2 жыл бұрын

Those are Great Suggestions! Miller and Rhodes will be covered soon for sure. It is ironic how the first 2 are in a shopping center. 😂

Sad one of my first jobs was at Hills. I'm glad Ames went out of business.

Please do a video of Wilson's Department Store in Greenfield, Massachusetts.

As a teen I worked at the Best Products location with the waterfall/Rain forest facade!

@undergroundretail

2 жыл бұрын

Thats interesting! What was it like working there?

@dennisud

2 жыл бұрын

@@undergroundretail Well like anyone back then it was a part time job to help pay for collage and such. If you mean the maitenence on the rain forest front, well they kept it up until they changed the front to another unique front.

Back in the 1990s when I was a teenager my Mother and I would go to Town Center Mall in Kennesaw - Marietta Gorgia and there was a men's clothing store called J Riggns or J Riggings. I really loved their men's clothing their dress shirts and causal shirts were really beautiful and reasonably priced. Then sometimes my Mother and I would go to the Gadsden, Alabama mall and shop at Mc Rae's but years later Mc Rae's went out of business years later and the store was later changed to the department store starts with a P and I know how to pronounce it correctly but do know how to spelling correctly. My Mother and I lived in Floyd County, Georgia and these two malls were about a hour away from our county so I fell in love with both Malls, because both Malls always had what I was looking for.

I'm not sure if you did this but stores I remember are Woodward and Lothrop, Jefferson wards, Ivey's, Pranges, and Pizits to be honest this series could go on for a while

@undergroundretail

2 жыл бұрын

Those are all great suggestions! I defiantly will work on those.

The HECHT Company in Baltimore never had any love shown by your channel. The HECHT Company remains my fondest Childhood shopping memory. Hoshchild Kohn in Baltimore. Hutzler's in Baltimore and last and least Stewart's in Baltimore. All department stores that ruled Baltimore in their day. Especially Hutzler's.

There was a Shopko in the county seat city near my town that closed. They'd been here since sometime in the 80's. But they became over priced and got driven out by Wally World and Target. I think if they had moved to bigger cities and not got outpriced by Wally World they might have had a chance Since around 2015 we've lost JC Penney, Younkers, Sears, KMART and Best Buy. We're left with Wally World Target and Kohls.

@undergroundretail

2 жыл бұрын

Target, Walmart and Kohl's will outlast everything.

@microbusss

2 жыл бұрын

when the Shopkos when bankrupt all the "sale" prices were the same! that happens in alot of stores that go bankrupt btw they jack the price up 30% to 60% or more THEN lower the price to make you THINK your getting a "good deal" & you ISN'T!!

@KC8EWU

Жыл бұрын

​@@microbusssthe "jackup" as you call it, is going back too original prices, plus markup for profits. Then drop down too same point where stores zero out a item and send back for credit.

In Arizona there was a White Front, briefly ... but it was a tiny store, no sign of appliances. It was more in the vein of Standard Brands ... which is another store not covered in this series. We had a FedMart ... not FedCo .... though FedMart was as I remember a membership store as well.

@undergroundretail

2 жыл бұрын

How big was a typical White Front store? I should definitely do a forgotten Membership Store.

Strawbridge and Clothier in center city Philadelphia: Winding through a Christmas village on your way to Santa, It had its own dedicated subway station.

Was looking for a part 3, but did not find it.. some stores I remember are ,Two Guys, Gold Circle, DK Stores,Ben Franklin Stores, JB Hunter, JM Fields, kiddie City, Child World.

@undergroundretail

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for Watching! Here is Part 3. The title was too long for me to add it in. kzread.info/dash/bejne/gpWEusqxh9fJZ9Y.html 😊

have you done Yellow Front yet? I have a ShopKo toy truck that is perfect for my HO scale trains its pah-my-duh actually

There used to be a location of Best in Yuma Arizona at the corner of 32nd Street and the 4th Avenue extension.

@undergroundretail

Жыл бұрын

Interesting! Is that building still standing?

@kathrynannwattsfabofkitt

Жыл бұрын

@@undergroundretail I don't know at this point because I don't live in the Yuma area but I like to keep tabs on things in that area because Yuma was my first home in Arizona.

Back when my friend and I were 18 back in 1981 we heard on the radio of a new store opening called Dawahares. It sounded like the radio announcer was sayings Doll Hairs and we started laughing and we weren't going to shop at a place called Doll Hairs. 🤣

The store I worked at is almost impossible to find info about because it was called “The Dry Goods.” There are other stores called Dry Goods. It closed in 1989 I believe. It was famous for having big dollar days sales.

Hess's department store Allentown Pennsylvania, and JJ Newberry founded in Stroudsburg Pa

Yeah, PharMor--I forgot that one. May I suggest Davison's (a Rich's rival?), GEM membership stores (I thought it was cool my dad's card was #007!), and JC Penney's Treasure Island chain with its signature crinkly roofline. The big TI in Doraville GA went under and became the site of a Zayre with the very 1st Home Depot store on its south end.

@undergroundretail

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for suggesting those! Be sure to check out the Forgotten Macy's stores here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/gpWEusqxh9fJZ9Y.html . I don't live too far from the Doraville area and I know exactly where that building is. It's a Farmer's Market now.

@glennso47

2 жыл бұрын

@@undergroundretail A local Rockford Illinois area chain, Union Hall, which was a discount store that went under about the same time in the 1990s as when Target and Walmart opened their stores in the Rockford area.

Wow! Does anyone remember Maas Brothers Department store ? My mom used to take us there. (St. Petersburg Florida)

@undergroundretail

4 ай бұрын

I remember them! I need to include them on a future video

@Deep-waters1964

4 ай бұрын

@@undergroundretail that would be great ! 👍🏼 Thank you

I remember setting up a Hill's dept store in the late 80's. I liked that. It was something I knew how to do and could read a plan a gram. They liked the way I trained the others with respect. So, They offered me a manager position in the jewelry department which I gladly took. But once the store opened it was a total nightmare!! Because we had gold jewelry instead of trusting the employees and just let us ring it up and let the customer go in their way. We had to call security to come watch over that sale. It was a total waste of time. Plus we had to log it in the book of display sales. After a month I was done with that store.

I used to shop at a Shopko in Escanaba Michigan in the 70s

K-mart is nearly gone too I worked for Kmart in 1999 & 2000

@loydkline4686

Жыл бұрын

❤️ kmart popcorn & toys, film development

Please feature more true department stores and less discount stores. There are many more full line stores that have yet to be seen.

@undergroundretail

Жыл бұрын

Noted! Top 10 Will feature more True Department Stores.

Fedco was cool remember buying my atari games there

I also liked Steve n Barry's!

@undergroundretail

2 жыл бұрын

I never shopped in one, but remembered them being in Macon for a couple of years in Macon Mall.

I remember Best when I lived in the Washington DC suburbs in late 1980s early 90s. I knew it was going downhill when I bought a vacuum cleaner that was supposed to be brand new, but when opened had hair and carpet fiber in the roller brush.

I remember the Hill's stores when I was a kid.

I haven't, I remember the chain stores I grew up around = Hills, Ames,, Grant's, Britts, Robert Hall Village, Nichols, The Big N, Town and Country.

What about regional stores in New England? Ann & Hope, Mamouth Mart, Mal’s

What happened to Lehner's they used to have a lay-a-way that was the best. You could go there in the spring and put everything on their plan for the new school year.

@Susie_Floozie

2 жыл бұрын

Do you mean Lerner's? It was a clothing chain of moderately sized stores in inner-city downtowns and malls. I saw a few city Lerner's stores with an elaborate U-shaped display-window front that had a square island standing display in the middle, making it look like it had two entrances.

@02chevyguy

Жыл бұрын

@@Susie_Floozie But didn't they sell mostly women's clothing?

@Susie_Floozie

Жыл бұрын

@@02chevyguy Yeah, they did. You sound like that's disturbing to you.

@02chevyguy

Жыл бұрын

@@Susie_Floozie WHAT??? How is that disturbing to me? They sold women's clothing. Big deal.

Please do Goldbatts of Chicago

@undergroundretail

2 жыл бұрын

Great Suggestion! This has been suggested quite a few times.

I loved Barney's!!

Here's one to look into that went under Sky City

@undergroundretail

2 жыл бұрын

Great Suggestion! I need to include this one.

If my memory is correct, BARNEYS NEW YORK was a sponsor of the soap opera DAYS OF OUR LIVES. 🤔🤔🤔✌✌✌✌

A list of other stores not touched upon. Roses, Jamesway, Woodies (Woodward and Lothrop) Memco, Drugfair (who also owned Trac Auto), and other more recent closures like Sears and Kmart.

@jsampson7349

2 жыл бұрын

Roses still in NC

@undergroundretail

2 жыл бұрын

Those are some goos suggestions. Roses, Sears and Kmart are still around. Roses is all over Georgia.

@Prof_Jeff

2 жыл бұрын

Roses is alive in Kentucky, too. Longtime residents tell me they used to be plentiful, then died off in the '80s and '90s. They weren't around here 20 years ago, but have come back in recent years, often taking over a building previously used by a defunct or downsizing chain.

The big Toy retailers FAO Scwartz , Toy’s’R’Us. Emporium Capwell, Montgomery Wards, Frederick’s of Hollywood 😂😂

@undergroundretail

2 ай бұрын

Check out this Video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/e3-mlJigY8q8e5s.html

Can you find out about a department store called "The Capitol"? It was located in downtown Fayetteville, NC on Hay Street. I'm not sure if they had other locations. It was such a beautifully designed store. I remember my mom shopping there in the early 80s but I was too little to remember more than that. I would love to learn the history of it.

@undergroundretail

2 жыл бұрын

Great Suggestion! I tried looking it up, but couldn't find out much.

@kaykepop4084

2 жыл бұрын

@@undergroundretail Thank you for trying💕

W. Bell & Company I worked there part time from 1980 to 1985

I have always wondered about some stores that just disappeared so this was of some interest to me. Unfortunately I couldn’t help noticing the mispronunciation of many towns. The devil is in the details. Check out Greenwich CT and Mobile Alabama - to mention a couple. This is not hard.

@undergroundretail

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for catching that and pointing that out! We are working on getting some of the cities and stores pronounced correctly as new videos are being released. Please don't hesitate to let us know 😃

Is that Pittsburgh Dad in the painting at 6:55?!??

I wish you'd done a TG&Y. They were big in south georgia and some in florida. Not as big as these, but important to my small town.

@DNSKansas

2 жыл бұрын

TG&Y was based in Oklahoma. Also had locations in Kansas and Louisiana.

@undergroundretail

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the Suggestion! I will defiantly do one on this chain. It has been suggested over 20 times. 😃

@davidhewitt5937

2 жыл бұрын

@@DNSKansas well, i haven't been west of Montgomery...just remembered Ga and Florida.

@alo42d

2 жыл бұрын

We had a tg&y here in NC too I remember going there with mom and dad

@undergroundretail

2 жыл бұрын

The TG&Y Video will premiere Tomorrow 😃! Here is the link. kzread.info/dash/bejne/nWSiztyJqpC3qto.html

I'm miss my old store Steve and Barry's is the best one I been there before it's a good one

What happened to Stewart James way at and p Kmart

There was a fedco in east harlem in the 70s

@undergroundretail

2 жыл бұрын

That's cool! Is the building still standing to this day?

Any one remember Big Ben dept stores, had one in Poughkeepsie Ny

What happened to Woolworths competitor W. T. Grant?

Living in Hawaii, I have only heard of one of these.

@undergroundretail

Жыл бұрын

Interesting! What chains are operating in Hawaii?

Chess king was in the old world trade center

@larrycj4382

2 жыл бұрын

I remember that store now! Could never remember the name. The WTC location was small and at an angle.

Such a shame since there is no look back at Sibley's (Lindsay-May company). Still no Sibley's??? Rochester, NY.....

@undergroundretail

2 жыл бұрын

That's a Great suggestion! I will look into this chain 😃

@johnbarber2175

2 жыл бұрын

@@undergroundretail Thank you so much. This would be great!!! Such a beloved department store we (Rochester, NY) all truly miss. Here is some additional information: I thought the company was Lindsay-May company during my life time but it was initially called Sibley, Lindsay & Curr est.1868. The store closed in the 1990's and was renamed Kaufmans and is presently Macy's. None of these compare to what Sibley's was they had everything from a bakery, sporting goods department, dinning room cafeteria, hair dressers, shoes, clothes etc.. ... Below are a few links to help your research. Some Quick Links: kzread.info/dash/bejne/m6Oi2Lilp7qTktY.html&ab_channel=DonAlhart kzread.info/dash/bejne/imhtqriAn5yTf7g.html&ab_channel=13WHAMABCNews kzread.info/dash/bejne/f3WHttSgZbGYhaw.html&ab_channel=WinnCompanies kzread.info/dash/bejne/mJiCj5KoadXZoJM.html&ab_channel=WinnCompanies Thanks again, JB

Never heard of the places other than Gottchalks and Barney’s New York only by name, not shopped at one of course. 🤔 McRae’s only heard of by name as well, all the other stores never heard of or been to. 🤷🏻‍♂️

@undergroundretail

2 жыл бұрын

Fun Fact! I never visited any of these stores. These stores were compiled together based on suggestions in the comments.

@codybrandoncargle3129

2 жыл бұрын

@@undergroundretail Yeah I guess so being from Metro Atlanta like me, and I figured as much man! 👍🏻