Defunct businesses that you used to love

[parallax]

i didnt think this thread would hit so hard. i would visit my grandma every month and on saturdays we would go to this arcade in marina del rey(i wish i could remember the name, but the backwall always had rows of street fighter 2/championship/turbo machines) and on sunday we would go to the baldwin hills plaza and check out k bees and the various book stores then hit the food court before going home. then they added the magic johnsons theatre and changed to bookstar into a disney store, and the magic of that place changed. i havent been back since

 

[datnigDASTARDLY]

Momma finally agreeing to drive 15 minutes to the nearest blockbuster so we could spend 30 more minutes trying to figure out wtf kinda Nintendo game to rent cuz moms wasn’t buying no damn game...she bought the system

 

[Mastamimd]

And of course, motherfukking Astroworld

 

[Pseudonym]

Payless never sold any name brand shoes at all that I could remember. It just seemed like they were all companies you could find stuff from from like an alibaba in bulk now.

Nope they didnt, but they had cute loafers,flats, and boots. And very cute purses. I was never really into name brands for certain things especially purses as long as I like it, I really dont care.

 

[Pedro Negro]

There was no way in hell that buisness model would survive more than a week these days.

The all you can eat shrimp cocktail.

A young brehs first intro to that A1

 

[Pedro Negro]

H

Caldor

the wiz

crazy eddies (where the prices are insane!!)

Hoooolly shyt

fukking Caldor breh

 

[Pedro Negro]

Arcades in general.

Putting quarters on the Street Fighter 2 machine to save your spot.

Memories.

Cigarette burns all up on the consoles and shyt

 

[FUPA]

Pic n save

didnt expect to see pic n save on here.

 

[Noriega]

We use to hit the one on Stony and the one in hazel crest off kedzie

Never cared for the customer base but quality foods nonetheless

@Stringer Cochran

 

[DaRealness]

When I traveled to london in 2004 to visit family I wasted so much money at HMV to bring vinyl records back home to the states I know I could not get there. LOL.

Other than the virgin megastore, I dion't even remember a music store like that having vinyl for sale...especially house and techno records.

and I actually went to the trocadero when I was much younger with my family when I visited in the 1990s. lol.

I remember that Virgin Megastore too. It closed down before HMV.

I got so many memories of Trocadero....Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter tournaments. Everyone was a bad ass until Japanese kids came through and crushed all buildings lol.

Kids of today don't know what they missed. Online stuff is convenient and instant, but the social atmosphere was second to none.

 

[Please Believe It]

Farmer Jack

 

[num123]

Virgin megastore in Times Square was a vibe

I used to go to the one on Market Street in SF all of the time, good memories.

 

[num123]

The Playstation Store and the Tilt arcade in the Metreon in SF. Hell, the whole Metreon before 2010.

 

[Human Torch]

the boardwalk fries

damn breh...you just took me back

Landova LANDOVAAAAAHHHH

 

[blues_funk_reggae]

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