Defunct businesses that you used to love

[SNYC]

They had a roy Roger's by penn station in the cut...it was by the hotel across from the Madison square garden entrance...

I didn't know they closed IAR...I went there for a free visit years back..

Music factory was in the bx on fordham..dr Jay's took that spot and I think that's pretty much closed..

shyt just different these days

Yeah, i know about RR. The left side retail area of the hotel Penn used to be the Sports Authority when i worked there

Music Factory was everywhere. I would go to Fordham, Fulton ave or Jamaica ave just to find a single

Yeah IAR is done. A new school popped up in it's place



Ohh yeah. J&R Music & Computer World across from City Hall

And YOSHINOYA on 42nd street where the 5 guys restaurant is

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

I had my very first taco at Sizzler open salad bar. Sizzler open salad bar used to hit.

 

[Kool]

Service Merchandise

Montgomery Ward

K&B Toys

McRae's (sold off and rebranded as Belk) they had better inventory as McRae's though.

Toys R Us

Bonanza's (it was a buffet style steakhouse that my parents use to take me to a lot in late 80s and early 90s before they went out of business in my area)

Western Sizzlin' (another restaurant, it's still a few of them around in other states but the ones around my way went out of business)

K-Mart

Sears

The rise of Amazon, the Internet, and a changing consumer has kinda been the death of those brick and mortar department stores most of us grew up with. I remember when those shopping malls were the place to be, you could go buy clothes and get fresh, meet honeys, eat, and even get furniture and home items. Now a lot of them look like abandoned ghost towns especially in comparison to 30 years ago when I was kid. I remember I use to live to get the Christmas catalogue from Toys R Us and Sears back in the day to circle the items I wanted to give to mom and dad so they could inform Santa Claus.

Hold up...you listed... Service Merchandise, Montgomery Wards, Bonanza and Kmart.

You got to be from Michigan..?

 

[cdub123]

The espn zone in Manhattan
Modells
Nobody beats the Wiz
shyt i think Dr.Jays is basically finished
Discovery Zone

Yo ESPN Zone!!! That place was so fukking fire. Food was on point, mad TVs, doing live radio shows in there. Damn, this thread hurts seeing some of these spots from the past.

 

[Edub]

Yoooo....service merchandise

 

[Edub]

Ryan’s Steak House

 

[360dagod]

Freddie's clothing store....

I remember after they got burned down in harlem, they started closing up...

There was a real pushback against what was starting to unravel in harlem

That whole 98-2001 NYC era

 

[the cool]

Hold up...you listed... Service Merchandise, Montgomery Wards, Bonanza and Kmart.

You got to be from Michigan..?

they had all those in Dallas

 

[acri1]

Completely forgot about Media Play and Service Merchandise

 

[Pedro Negro]

During Christmas time when Moms or Pops tried to sneak in the house with bags of KB Toys but you used to catch a glimpse of them real quick and pretend you ain't see shyt


Woolworth's had the GOAT ninja turtles action figures, can't tell me shyt



I don't know where yall grew up, but here in Queens we had these little stores that used to sell suitcases, bags, backpacks, umbrellas, etc. and they used to come through with the X-Men action figures, these stores were the MVP of the 90's

What part of Queens you at breh?

Used to walk out them stores with some action figures, Marvel cards and a fresh Jansport as a young breh

 

[The Minister Of Culture]

Circuit city

 

[blues_funk_reggae]

What part of Queens you at breh?

Used to walk out them stores with some action figures, Marvel cards and a fresh Jansport as a young breh

Back when I was a kid I lived in Corona, 80s - 1995

Junction blvd, jackson heights, astoria, steinway, flushing main Street, all them spots used to be lit for a kid in the 90s. Baseball and basketball cards, super nintendo games, jerseys, you name it. My older brother had a connect on main Street that used to hook him up with movie theater posters, that's where I got my Dream Team poster from 92'

 

[GPBear]

breh did they get rid of old country buffet

i never had another chance to engorge on their cheap mashed potatoes and roast beef

 

[blues_funk_reggae]

The espn zone in Manhattan
Modells
Nobody beats the Wiz
shyt i think Dr.Jays is basically finished
Discovery Zone

ESPN Zone....I used to get out of my shytty internship back in those days and head there to unwind. One day during the world cup I just said fukk it, and no-showed my internship, hung out there alllll day and watched like 2 games.

 

[Crude]

Hold up...you listed... Service Merchandise, Montgomery Wards, Bonanza and Kmart.

You got to be from Michigan..?

Louisiana.

My mom and dad use to stay taking me to those places on the weekends. Sometimes I'd get lucky and they'd get me a video game or a cool toy.