What store reminds you of your childhood?

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Yes, I am old. :bowrofl:
 

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Probably Venture. I remember the black and white stripes on the front of the building. That and before there was Sam's Club or Costco, there was a place called The Warehouse Club on Mannheim just north of 290 that we used to always go to. Also White Hen.
 

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The baseball card shop, it was a storefront little corner in a car mechanic shop in the town I grew up in, pretty sure it was just called Helland’s it was a friend of mines uncles that owned it, they both died many years ago and the building burned down probably 10 years ago
 

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several.


toys r us, and im talking every toys r us on the south side. Mom would take me every week to get the new batch of whatever hot wheels and WWF wrestlers were out. Same with KB Toys.


service merchandise. for all electronic needs and bikes and shit.



corner candy store called Winklers. they had penny candy and porno mags. if you didnt lock your bike up it was gone by time you got back out side and you didnt go there even at the sign of night if you were white(so our colored friends would go for the group). I remember being like 11 and collecting all the change i could to buy the Sable edition Playbody.... they wouldnt sell it to me so I bought like $13 worth of penny candy.
 

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we had a Joes video store. I remembered my moms account number by heart so wed go in there and rent all the games and old WWF VHS tapes. also they had football cards and id charge those to the account. later on a person related to our family went in there one night and had a spaze and threw tapes at the clerk. he was taken out in cuffs...

then in highschool mrs.deezul worked there and dealt with all the creeps getting pornos :rofl:
 

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Zayre, Venture, A & P, Turnstyle, and the only mall was Evergreen Plaza, the others weren't built yet.

We ate at Prince Castle & Jack in the box.

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Nailed three I recall vividly. The Zayre, Venture, and A&P.

But yea, another is Toys R Us. The OLD warehouse style, not the revamped layout they rolled out a few years before their demise. It was where as a kid, the store seemed HUGE with endless aisles of toys.
 

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I heard this on the radio this morning... I honestly am not sure that 1 single store reminds me of my childhood more than the corner candy store. I could go in there and score a handful of stuff for less than a buck. So many kids stole that it eventually closed up shop.

So what store does it for you?

Corner stores and school stores in the city. I would steal a couple of $1 food stamps from my Moms purse and would be set for the day. I could get a couple of pops and a shit load of penny candy. The issue with the food stamps as there werent many $1 bills in the book. If you used anything over $1 bill then they had to see the booklet, lol. I also remember buying liquor and cigarettes from the corner store for my babysitter. All she would do is write a note and they would give it to me and out on her tab.
 

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I remember Venture, Toys-R-Us, K.B Toys, Funcoland.

There's also a liquor store that my mom used to work at in Elgin called Night Owl Foods. I would get penny candy there for free, drinks, play the arcades they had. I would also help. One time my mom bought 2 boxes of penny candy that resembled cigarettes. It was gum wrapped in paper with powdered sugar where when you blew it, "smoke" flew out. I took the boxes to school and although a box cost $2.50 (250 pieces), I made a $40+ profit of each box.... Kids loved that gum at school.
 

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I remember hitting White Hen with a note from my Mom picking up Virginia Slims for her to smoke. I think you'd get arrested these days having your kid pick them up for you.


Searching through the aisles of Zayre trying to find a GI Joe figure I didn't have, then playing some Spy Hunter on the arcade machines there waiting for Mom to check out...


There was also a small local hobby shop called Swansons Hobbies, used to go there and drool over the RC cars I couldnt afford while I got crappy Tyco ones for Christmas. :bowrofl:
 

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White Hen and Palmer Video. Both were in the plaza on the southwest corner of Lake Cook Rd and Arlington Heights Rd. I grew up in that neighborhood so would ride my bike to both all the time.

I distinctively remember a $1 bill getting me a can of Mountain Dew and a Snickers. I also remember seeing Stacey King in Palmer Video renting a movie and my old man saying hi to him. I asked my dad who that was, and he said it was the worst NBA player in the history of the NBA. I grew up believing that LOL!
 

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I also remember Family Video by Trout Park in Elgin. I would be at my cousins house on the west side of Elgin and we would ride our bikes all the way to Family Video to play certain arcades. We would also play a lot of arcades at Santa's Village and I found a "hack" to rip off the change machine. 5 cents =$5.
 

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I also remember Family Video by Trout Park in Elgin. I would be at my cousins house on the west side of Elgin and we would ride our bikes all the way to Family Video to play certain arcades. We would also play a lot of arcades at Santa's Village and I found a "hack" to rip off the change machine. 5 cents =$5.

We still have a Family Video in Plainfield
 
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