Defunct businesses that you used to love

[blues_funk_reggae]

The worst part is those small businesses that you didn't really know by name that were dope as fukk, but just disappeared and no one ever noticed.

 

[JoelB]

My first real job

there used to be a blockbuster up the street that would kill us in business. I'd be up there on the clock, eating the spicy popcorn, watching cartoons until my shift was over during the weekdays.

 

[Rell84shots]

Funcoland, We all know that Gamestop was always bullshyt.

 

[semicko82]

Damn Amazon really killed The Millennials childhood

 

[semicko82]

Club kokos in Shreveport
Beamers in Dallas

 

[DoomzdayzV]

circuit city was dope...when I lived in broward back in 96 there was the megastore just off US-1 in hallandale, I remember copping so much shyt from there, thats where I got my PS1

 

[Kool]

 

[#1 pick]

I had a lot of places I loved as a kid that no longer exist but nothing does it for me as Incredible Universe did. I don't know if ya'll from Metro Atlanta but this place was insane for the young version of me. It didn't last long but it was the most amazing place I've been too for that time period. It even had a McDonald's in it when that wasn't done before. For someone like me who was a diehard for tech, it was crazy.

 

[#1 pick]

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.

ESPN Zone was a nice spot. I forgot all about it. Seems like it died when ESPN was sold to Disney.

 

[semicko82]

Liberty Land in Memphis

 

[ThaBronxBully]

Walking Into Nobody Beats The Wiz The Day A New Album Dropped

 

[ThaBronxBully]

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.

Them Cheese Fries With The Bacon Crumbles Were My shyt From ESPN Zone

 

[Slaimon Khan Shah]

THE REEBOK OUTLET STORE!
REEBOK = GIGI HADID TALK

 

[#1 pick]

Schlatskys Deli
Head Board Shop (Skate Shop in Pittsburgh)
Hypervinyl (techno/house record store in Pittsburgh)
Future Sounds
Groovetech
720 Records
Little Skips in Brooklyn
Tower Records
Electronics Boutique
Virgin Records
Recon/Nort NYC (Sneaker store run by graffiti artists Stash and Futura)a
Waves Music
Blockbuster Music
NRM
Brave New World (Record Store in Pittsburgh)
The Upstage (Club in Pittsburgh)
Babbages
Suncoast Video
Modells
Fat Alberts
Ulterior Motive (Pittsburgh streetwear store from the 2000s)

schlotzsky's??? nikka, there is one like 5 mins from me. Them shyts all over Houston. I didn't give a shyt about music and honestly, Blockbuster would still be around if they brought Netflix. Bad business moves were the end of their chapter. Modells is still around in DC area. I used to go to one at Arundels Mills in Maryland. All of that music shyt died for obvious reasons.

 

[#1 pick]

Them Cheese Fries With The Bacon Crumbles Were My shyt From ESPN Zone

They used to have ESPN Zone in Atlanta. That mfer was good as hell. I think I went on a date over there. It was a nice chilled spot. ESPN did their thing with that shyt but I figured it wouldn't last. I know the owner of Jeffery's personally and he told me the amount it takes to run a sports entertainment bar is insane with just their overhead. It's not cheap at all. ESPN Zone was like if Ted's Montana was a sports bar. Real nice but I doubt it made real money. You do better selling cheap shyt for a crazy markup like Buffalo Wild Wings.