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I remember going there as a kid in Decatur Il and just remember it having a different feel. Venture was different as well. Both in good ways.

These were funny and made me laugh. Nothing wrong with that.

OmG… I remember being a kid on Vacation in Ciudad Mexico in the late 70’s with my mom walking into a Woolworth looking for socks and turtle neck sweaters because my mom had forgotten to pack them 😅

WRONG! The Shadoe Stevens commercials were one of the best things Federated had going for it, responsible for 500% growth in the 1st year they ran. They even got two pages of coverage in Time Magazine. But when Atari took over, the President of Atari told Shadoe he could keep making "those commercials," but he wasn't going to pay anything like what Federated had been paying him. So Shadoe Stevens quit, and Federated went bankrupt 15 months later.

There is no LA Fitness at the site of the first Kmart in Garden City, Mi. . They backed out of the deal when Covid struck. It is still vacant land.

Sprouse-Reitz was almost the only place to get school supplies until other stores were built in our small town. The stores were always next to a Safeway grocery store which took over the space after Sprouse-Reitz closed.

I do also recall Sears Roebuck's selling King Midgets in the late '50s and 60's....while they looked like precursors to kit cars like the Manx,they were roadworthy and legal in most states.

RIP KB TOYS

They are now available at Hudson’s Bay and Zellers in canada

The district manager for this store was one of the passengers on United Airlines Flight 93, on September 11, 2001.

Wow .... this is an amazing piece of Woolworth History

Only here because I'm currently watching Breakfast at Tiffany's. Saw the Rogers and Peet van in a background street scene, and it drew my attention. So, my curiosity brought me here to your channel. Excellent informative upload. Thank you !

I worked at 4019 in Champaign Illinois which opened in March 1963. Within a year we had a blue light made by one of our assistant managers. Two of the assistants went on to be buyers in Troy Michigan. When I became a store manager, I used an updated blue light especially for clearance and special buys. Name brand watches comes to mine for $35.

Our 1st born, a son named Douglas, "Dougie" was born Oct. 8, 1953 but died of SIDS, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, Jan. 29, 1954. We enjoyed one Christmas season with him. He loved looking at the lights on the tree and listening to the Christmas songs, including Rudolph. After he died I rewrote the words to the song Rudolph, for our Dougie: Dougie, Our Bright-eyed Baby Dougie, our bright-eyed baby, Had a very tiny nose. And if you ever saw him, You would even say, "He glows!" All of the other babies, Used to laugh, but not the same. They were'nt our little Dougie Playing and cooing his baby game. Then one frightful Friday morn, The Lord took him away. "Dougie with your holy light, Won't you show us wrong from right?" Oh how we pray and miss him As we cry in misery, "Dougie, our bright-eyed baby, You've gone down in history!" Here it is...70 years later and we have 3 more children, 3 grandcren and 6 great grandchildren, but I still miss Dougie. As did his Dad. and his siblings who never knew him, but knew OF hom.

I'm related to them

I worked at Woolworth in Mexico City

I worked at the South Coast Plaza location from about 1998 to 2002. ❤

I’m not sure why you think there is anything built on the side of the original Kmart. As of last week, it is still vacant and bare. You can still see where the store sat. I appreciate your video, but it’s always good to do a bit of fact, checking prior to making claims such as this.

We had ie in San Diego. Igit some cool pleather there in the 80s as a little girl

I worked as manager for sprouse in San Jose ca and my district manager was taking money out of my safe. Then a pattern emerged he was stealing from all his stores. Except from the Marina store where the manager changed the combination to his safe. Then I heard latter that thief from the employees was greater than from the customers. Then soon after they all closed.

I first learned about the Sears Modern Homes after watching History Detectives on PBS for the first time years ago. It was in the 2000's and I knew back then that Sears had a home improvement section, but I hadn't known that the store sold entire houses through their catalog. Was I in for a surprise! Those houses were beautiful! I loved the ones with Victorian-style designs 🏡🏡🏡🏡🏡🏡 EDIT: Sears stopped selling catalogs in 1993 in the US, but the catalogs were still being published in Canada for until at least the late 1990's until production ceased altogether in that country, too

Worked at the headquarters in Wilsonville, OR around 1998/1999. I was the guy rearranging movie poster parts into window vinyls. Great job! Death defying commute.

This is when shopping was shopping unlike the craziness of todays and mail ordering

Wait a minute, New Dream Rudolph Collection; 2 Rudolph Original Books, 1 Rudolph Golden Book, 3 Original Rudolph Songs in Music and Lyric Videos, 3 Rudolph Movies in VHS, 3 Rudolph Movies in DVD-Videos, 3 Rudolph Movies in Blu-Rays, 1 Rudolph Video Game, and 1 Rudolph Musical in Music-CD, and 4 Rudolph Virtual Visual Toys.

Till this day we still have a microwave from Montgomery wards And it still works!

2013 had the better of the 2 years

This was the place to get you Jnco and UFO jeans.

💥💥 afro America people destroyed everything around them and that why black areas struggle to attract businesses to their area.. And can you blame business owners? if I was a business owner as a black man myself why would I want to open a business in a predominantly black neighborhood, when I know the struggles that i would have to face and deal with those areas and thats just the truth.

I was hoping to see anything but Blockbuster and Hollywood Video.

Hi blockbuster store next year Queensland brisbane Victoria point gym hollywood film studios making TV'S. Need business business

Service Merchandise sucked. You had to use a little order form to get your Quaaludes and Roofies, then you had to wait at a little window to pick them up

I have seen some pictures of the Kmart in Bridgehampton, and they still have a blue light and a blue light advertisement, for now.

Nothing is there to this day. L.A. fitness backed out and was never built. Now it is just fenced in concrete.

J. J. was my 2nd cousin

God I miss my Sprouse Reitz

I use to go to the Just For Feet Store 🏬 in Hoover AL And Montgomery AL to From 1994 To 2004 To Buy Shoes, Clothes Or Just To Hangout With Friends And All.

Back in 1978 when I was in high school there was a guy who could go into seven & eleven and walk out with a 12 pack of Miller beer every time and I always wondered how he did it, well he always had a long coat on and after watching this video I now know for fact that he put the beer ( Miller 12 packs came in a completely in closed box ) between his legs even chatting with the the cashier on the way out. Pretty devious of him

Amber heard took this commercial seriously

A couple of inaccuracies: The car could not be purchased via the Sears catalog. It was listed in the catalog but you actually had to visit the store to purchase/order one. Also, Allstate cars, just as the Henry J, were available with or without an opening deck lid. Otherwise, pretty well done video.

Circuit City was actually founded in 1949, all they did in 1984 was change the name of the chain to Circuit City.

AS a kid we had a presario.

all the best retail megastores offered big brand food for their customers. Walmart offers McDonald's and Subway. Target offers Starbucks and or Pizza Hut. And Kmart offered Little Caesars.

Landover Mall was incredible when I was little, unfortunately just like most things in Prince George's County it became a slum, my family lived in Landover Hills until 1985, believe it or not PG County was nice then

Yeah😀

It also had a music store called Briggs Music.

Though of a different nature, the store-within-a-store concept is growing again with Macy's Backstage.

Nah, it was still Zayre, heh.

I just started thinking and I can’t think of a time there was never enough shopping carts to go around, I just started questioning the few objects you’d think could all be used up but surprisingly arnt.

I was a previous employee before 1995, at The DISCOVERY STORE COMPANY, I helped with the grand opening of Dallas TX Galleries, the original owners were Rick and his wife Sholine, according to my information they sold the original stores which I coordinated to open in Houston, Phonix, Atlanta, and San Diego to the Discovery Channel in 1995, but what you said in your video is not the completed and total history of this stores, the owners sold the business after they open another 5 stores and then I went to see Rick at his office just before they sold out all to the discovery channel, Why this report does not talk about them?

I don't know if it was universal, but a few years before my local Kmart closed down in 2017, they got rid of their video game section, so seeing a Kmart commercial half focused on video games seems weird looking back..