Cleaning out my Grandmothers storage locker and found another Bradlees and a Brooks Pharmacy bag to add to my collection. Brought me back to memories of one of my earliest girlfriends who worked at the Brooks in Milford, NH.
Also found some sealed paper plates and listerine with Bradlees stickers that are decades old
This has been making the rounds of Facebook the last few days.
"Go ahead! All you want, bro! All you want! It was a great idea, but no! Everyone just wants to prove that Rrrandy's gone crazy! Oh don't mind Randy, he's just losing his mind!"
Has anyone seen a store come back from the dead?? Fye left the Rockaway mall in new jersey years ago, but i just went there xmas shopping and they are back in there again
Has anyone seen a store come back from the dead?? Fye left the Rockaway mall in new jersey years ago, but i just went there xmas shopping and they are back in there again
I also saw the demise and return of FYE in Terre Haute, IN, just at a different place.
When I was younger, Dick Smith was one of the largest electronic chains in NZ. Over time, it's just faded in popularity, and no stores are around at all anymore. Sucks, because the company has been around since 1968.
My guess is that online suppliers have cheaper products or are easier to order from.
Has anyone seen a store come back from the dead?? Fye left the Rockaway mall in new jersey years ago, but i just went there xmas shopping and they are back in there again
I also saw the demise and return of FYE in Terre Haute, IN, just at a different place.
Looks they morphed their focus too. They are more of a Pop culture store now. T shirts, action figures, some movies and cd's, records, plushie things, its like a Spencer's minus the dildos and vibrators
Has anyone seen a store come back from the dead?? Fye left the Rockaway mall in new jersey years ago, but i just went there xmas shopping and they are back in there again
Roy Rogers (fast food place, fried chicken and roast beef) went from many franchises when I was a kid, to basically disappearing except for a few at interstate restaurants, to reopening a bunch of new locations under new management. When I visited my hometown for Thanksgiving, I got some fried chicken and the curly fries and, damn it was good
Does anyone remember Phar-Mor? I used to beg my mom to drive me there every Friday to rent games... they had a crazy good deal, like 75 cents or $1 per game rental for 3 days when everywhere else was $3 per game for 2 days. There was a limit of 6 at a time, and I got 6 every week with my paper route money... whatever halfway decent games they had in stock. Mostly genesis and SNES, as I remember. This was in the early 90's
It was a pharmacy store, but they also had discount deals a lot like Big Lots. I remember specifically once finding hot dog scented Nickelodeon Gak there. Once when I was with a friend of mine, we found these sound machines that made the Fred Flintstone running sound and chased each other around the store while constantly pushing the button. Ah, stupid youth... but nobody gave a flying fig. It was a fun store to just poke around in and see what you could find.
I didn't think anyone remembered Phar-Mor. I played more SNES games from that place than any other. I probably rented Hook a dozen times.
Does anyone remember Phar-Mor? I used to beg my mom to drive me there every Friday to rent games... they had a crazy good deal, like 75 cents or $1 per game rental for 3 days when everywhere else was $3 per game for 2 days. There was a limit of 6 at a time, and I got 6 every week with my paper route money... whatever halfway decent games they had in stock. Mostly genesis and SNES, as I remember. This was in the early 90's
It was a pharmacy store, but they also had discount deals a lot like Big Lots. I remember specifically once finding hot dog scented Nickelodeon Gak there. Once when I was with a friend of mine, we found these sound machines that made the Fred Flintstone running sound and chased each other around the store while constantly pushing the button. Ah, stupid youth... but nobody gave a flying fig. It was a fun store to just poke around in and see what you could find.
I didn't think anyone remembered Phar-Mor. I played more SNES games from that place than any other. I probably rented Hook a dozen times.
Phar-Mor was great for renting SNES games super cheap rentals. Oh how I missed them when they closed.....
I moved to Huntington WV for a few years back in the mid-2000s which were the last days for Phar-Mor. I remember crapping my pants when went to the mall and I saw that they kept their liquor right there on the floor where you could just grab it and throw it in your cart with your Cheerios. The stores in Ohio weren't like that at the time. Ohio malls didn't have groceries in them, let alone liquor!
Never been to Taco Time... the people that work at the one in my time look really gross. Even the Ghost Pepper Shrimp taco or whatever couldn't lure me in.
Never been to Taco Time... the people that work at the one in my time look really gross. Even the Ghost Pepper Shrimp taco or whatever couldn't lure me in.
It's a big franchise? Damn, didn't even know that hahahaha!
The always-amazing Dan Bell uploaded another gem. It brings back some memories of shopping/working there. I found it odd that they wouldn't let him buy the foam sign, we threw ours out. I was going to take it with me but I already had enough junk that I was taking home from the closure (with permission, of course). I was shocked at just how poorly the liquidation was organized, we had to keep things tight and orderly.
Yes, the store teardown was that disgusting. I stepped in some old laundry detergent that had been sitting for 20 years. Took weeks to wear it off my shoes. I did, however, find a pack of basketball cards from the 1990's that I proudly saved.
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Also found some sealed paper plates and listerine with Bradlees stickers that are decades old
"Go ahead! All you want, bro! All you want! It was a great idea, but no! Everyone just wants to prove that Rrrandy's gone crazy! Oh don't mind Randy, he's just losing his mind!"
Originally posted by: leatherrebel5150
Has anyone seen a store come back from the dead?? Fye left the Rockaway mall in new jersey years ago, but i just went there xmas shopping and they are back in there again
I also saw the demise and return of FYE in Terre Haute, IN, just at a different place.
My guess is that online suppliers have cheaper products or are easier to order from.
http://www.avclub.com/article/i-got-4-bikes-2-nickelodeon-super-toy-run-winners--217394
Has anyone seen a store come back from the dead?? Fye left the Rockaway mall in new jersey years ago, but i just went there xmas shopping and they are back in there again
I also saw the demise and return of FYE in Terre Haute, IN, just at a different place.
Looks they morphed their focus too. They are more of a Pop culture store now. T shirts, action figures, some movies and cd's, records, plushie things, its like a Spencer's minus the dildos and vibrators
They used to have arcades too
We never got them over here to my knowledge.
The original 1990's style F.Y.E. stores were huge compared to the mid 2000s ones too
They used to have arcades too
Neat i didn't know they had a game store or is that just an arcade?
(or maybe they did close down in 2016?)
FYE was/is definitely New York based. We never really had them here in New England until they ate up other chains in the 2000s.
The first time I ever saw an FYE in the 90s was when we traveled to the NYC area
Has anyone seen a store come back from the dead?? Fye left the Rockaway mall in new jersey years ago, but i just went there xmas shopping and they are back in there again
Roy Rogers (fast food place, fried chicken and roast beef) went from many franchises when I was a kid, to basically disappearing except for a few at interstate restaurants, to reopening a bunch of new locations under new management. When I visited my hometown for Thanksgiving, I got some fried chicken and the curly fries and, damn it was good
Does anyone remember Phar-Mor? I used to beg my mom to drive me there every Friday to rent games... they had a crazy good deal, like 75 cents or $1 per game rental for 3 days when everywhere else was $3 per game for 2 days. There was a limit of 6 at a time, and I got 6 every week with my paper route money... whatever halfway decent games they had in stock. Mostly genesis and SNES, as I remember. This was in the early 90's
It was a pharmacy store, but they also had discount deals a lot like Big Lots. I remember specifically once finding hot dog scented Nickelodeon Gak there. Once when I was with a friend of mine, we found these sound machines that made the Fred Flintstone running sound and chased each other around the store while constantly pushing the button. Ah, stupid youth... but nobody gave a flying fig. It was a fun store to just poke around in and see what you could find.
I didn't think anyone remembered Phar-Mor. I played more SNES games from that place than any other. I probably rented Hook a dozen times.
and put up this shiny new one...
I miss the old one.
Does anyone remember Phar-Mor? I used to beg my mom to drive me there every Friday to rent games... they had a crazy good deal, like 75 cents or $1 per game rental for 3 days when everywhere else was $3 per game for 2 days. There was a limit of 6 at a time, and I got 6 every week with my paper route money... whatever halfway decent games they had in stock. Mostly genesis and SNES, as I remember. This was in the early 90's
It was a pharmacy store, but they also had discount deals a lot like Big Lots. I remember specifically once finding hot dog scented Nickelodeon Gak there. Once when I was with a friend of mine, we found these sound machines that made the Fred Flintstone running sound and chased each other around the store while constantly pushing the button. Ah, stupid youth... but nobody gave a flying fig. It was a fun store to just poke around in and see what you could find.
I didn't think anyone remembered Phar-Mor. I played more SNES games from that place than any other. I probably rented Hook a dozen times.
Phar-Mor was great for renting SNES games super cheap rentals. Oh how I missed them when they closed.....
I will never forget....."Taco Time"
Never been to Taco Time... the people that work at the one in my time look really gross. Even the Ghost Pepper Shrimp taco or whatever couldn't lure me in.
It's a big franchise? Damn, didn't even know that hahahaha!
DZ Discovery Zone was my favorite place as kid, shame they went under.
I'm going--DZ!--where kids wanna be!
if you remember the commercials
Yes, the store teardown was that disgusting. I stepped in some old laundry detergent that had been sitting for 20 years. Took weeks to wear it off my shoes. I did, however, find a pack of basketball cards from the 1990's that I proudly saved.