20 Famous Stores From The 1980s, That No Longer Exist!
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- 20 Famous Stores From The 1980s, That No Longer Exist!
In this nostalgic video, we reminisce about 20 iconic stores from the 1980s that have vanished from the American retail landscape. From department stores to specialty shops, we explore the once-thriving businesses that are now just memories. Join us as we take a trip down memory lane and uncover the stories behind these lost treasures of the past.
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I miss the old America.
Same here when life was simple 😔
I don't. Everything seemed to revolve around materialism and crass consumerism.
@@mirzaahmed6589 exactly
Back in the day when people had, that thing called, morals!
Im old in my 50s and so grateful to have been young at this time.
You think 50s are old?? They're middle aged to me. 80s and 90 is old. Harrison Ford is in his mid 70s and he's still making films.
Now imagine if your parents were poor and you could not afford any of the toys at Kaybee's or Kiddie City.
Same, I'm 45. It's nice but kind of sad.
I remember Hill's and Ames too!
Hills has the hits, LP's or cassettes, Hills.
I still have my old Blockbuster rental card. I got it in 1985. It's in a picture frame now. (Jan Griffiths).
1:01 Hollywood Video
2:25 Kay Bee Toys
3:48 Radio Shack
5:20 Babbage’s
6:16 Peaches Records & Tapes
7:37 Venture Stores
9:11 Blockbuster Video
10:19 Tower Records
11:35 Toys R Us
13:05 Sharper Image
14:38 Circuit City
16:08 CompUSA
17:34 Borders Books
19:07 Walden Books
20:16 Sam Goody
21:49 Caldor
23:18 Abraham & Straus
24:18 Lionel Kiddie City
26:01 Woolworth’s
27:10 Egghead Software
Venture(s) , Baggages. My greatness, these scream Midwest.😚
Those were the good old days.
these stores as well as others were apart of many of our childhoods
Anyone who didn’t grow up in the 80s. You missed out. ✅
You Sure DID!!!😎The BEST Damn job I ever had was working at Bridgeport Video in high school. Met my first girlfriend there and everything!!!🤓🤓
Missed picking up Friday movies on VHS at Blockbuster
I miss buying movies really cheap when the extra new releases weren't so new!
I was looking in my closet found VCR still in the box not opened.
now i go and pick up my vhs tapes at goodwill only 25 cents each,.......marius(punk rules).
I loved my Realistic stereo from Radio Shack. 2 cassette tape decks, phonograph, and 2 12" speakers.
and a battery on your birthday- even a 9-volt if you want- we were the Kings
A lot of these store chains were destroyed by the advents of digital media, smartphones, online shopping, and further compounded through the bad business decisions of their own shareholders, CEOs, and executives. One good example of the bad business decisions aspect would be Blockbuster Video. Blockbuster had a ground floor opportunity to buy Netflix and they refused, thinking that digital video and video game distribution would be just a fad that faded away eventually instead of the evolution of content distribution with staying power it turned out to be.
We have the benefit of hindsight. At the time it was not at all obvious that online video would take over.
Where is Sears and Montgomery Wards? Boy I miss them
Sears and Montgomery physical stores are closed, they sell online only now.
Sears closed down their catalog sales about a year before Amazon was founded. Imagine if they had gone online instead of shutting it down.
@@georgeharris6851 Sears does have an online websites, I get at least 10 emails from Sears every week.
Yes, and K-Mart is gone too.
Sears still has over a dozen locations in the USA. I live near a nonclosing Sears in Burbank, California
Hollywood Video was all over. I lived next to one in Rhode Island. Spent almost every weekend there to rent the hottest movies that hit the shelves. I still could remember the glossy floors by the registers, long lines, lights, candy and popcorn for sale and empty DVD/Blu-ray cases if u didn't get there in time to rent the movie 😂 Nostalgia and I miss it! Radio Shack was my dad's store. I rem he used to drag me there all the time!
Hats off for your dad. I miss radio shack..it had every electronic gismo to build with ...kids these days play with their phones...no imagination... damn listen to me I sound old😂 in 47
Well done, We had Shook, Goldblatt's Weiboldt's, Service Merchandise, among others now just a memory.
Service Merchandise! Decades since I heard or thought of that!
Great Video! I so miss the stores of the 80’s!
Here is the thing. I grew up in the Eighties and I honestly don't remember Peaches Records and Tapes. I've heard of Tower Records but not Peaches Records and TApes.
Same. I wonder what general location they were
I do remember Peaches Records. We would visit their location in Orlando every year on vacation. I even purchased a cassette tape holder with their emblem on it. I still have it! This would have been the early 1980’s.
Me too. I think most are west coast stuff.
Netflix took blockbuster out 😊
There was one in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I was born and raised in Ponca City. Mom would take my older sister and me to Tulsa twice a year to shop for fall/winter clothes and then spring/summer clothes. All my sister cared about was going to Peaches for the latest releases. I always looked forward to having dinner at Casa Bonita before we drove back home. 😊
Circuit City. I loved that store. They ran circles around the BestBuy. Computer wise, they knew what they were selling you.
Not the one in my home town. The people who worked there clueless, rude, and well.. just not suited to be in retail. Went there twice and laughed when they shut down.
I sometimes think Footlocker should pay homage to it's roots by opening a lunch counter. For those of you who don't know. Footlocker is the last remnants of FW Woolworths.
Might be a good idea to return to the company roots in that way.
I miss radio shack
Rich’s,
Richway,
Sunshine Dept. Store,
Lionel Play World,
Camelot Music,
Mervyn’s,
Big Lots,
Service Merchandise,
Turtles Records & Tapes
Tandy Leather Co.
Sears & Roebuck,
Kmart
Sears made a BIG MISTAKE when they bought Kmart! It sure seemed like a good idea at the time. We all know now that Kmart was beyond repair when Sears got to them. And among many other things, Sears exec's thought that internet shopping was going to be a passing fad and frankly so did I. Sears didn't adapt and we all know how this is going to end!😭😭😭
Wow I forgot about Tandy leather and, Camelot Music.
It amazes me that I have heard of only about half of these stores! Probably a result of not hanging out on the east coast or midwest.
I had presumed that all the major chains were well distributed. The only oddball was Sam Goody that had sort of an appearance at one store (Lloyd Center) in Portland but vanished in a year or two later.
I remember going to blockbuster Friday or Saturday when I was younger with my sister and dad. Those were the days. I used to work at Toys R us when I was in high school or college (90's).
I’m tired of hearing online shopping killing these stores. I miss a lot of these stores.
My wife is younger than me and she always shops online. I’m old-school I like brick and mortar.
Well, too bad. Most people prefer online shopping. And most younger people prefer paying for experiences rather than physical goods.
Alll these stores bring back so many memories I used to shop at circuit city
I got my first DVD player at CC. It was actually a DIVX player that could play both formats.
If you could find a parking space!
I remember growing up and my parents shopping at Caldor, Bradlees, and K-Mart. I also would buy my vinyl at Tower Records when I lived in Boston and Dallas.
Ill be 61 in june, God I miss the old days. But im thankful that im not growing up now.
Toys R Us still exists in Canada. As well as "The Source", which was the successor that bought out the former Radio Shack stores.
I believe Tower Records is also up here still in Canada as well.
Oh I miss Blockbuster.🎉🎉🎉
Im an 80's baby too and I remember alot of these stores here in michigan.
We still have a local Blockbuster and Radio Shack store...so much for this video.
You live in Bend, OR? I think your Radio Shack closed.
Look at you, just like a pizza cutter. All edge, no point.
There is a Radio Shack in Fort Myers Florida
@@davidkraus5765 But there's only one Blockbuster left. It's famous for being the only Blockbuster.
@@facely You can order Radio Shack online.
The vast majority of these all meet one of two ends.
A) "but then the digital age..." or
B) "but then 2008..."
The shopping experience is totally different now. I remember When I was a kid, mom would get “car fare” (bus fare) ready (50 cents or whatever it was😂) drag us onto the bus for a one hour ride to Roosevelt field. I would go “time out” which was the game room. All the game rooms are gone now, although they are starting to slowly reappear in some places.
But this was back when dad went to work and most women stayed home to care for the family. Those days are LONG gone. Everyone has to work now just to make it month to month. A house in 1972 was an average of $25,000 and the average salary was $10,000. Fast forward to today?! Average salary is $75,000 and the average house is a million dollars!
Sad miss all of them
Who remembers Blue Chip stamps and the other trading stamps, the green ones? You got the stamps at various retailers and stuck them into books and then redeemed the books of stamps for small appliances and such. I can't actually remember where you got your goods... I think there was a catalog, not a brick and mortar location to redeem the stamps.
Circuit city and toys r Us are still around in Canada. I'm surprised fedco didn't make this list.
I shopped at all these except no Venture or Peaches in Dallas, Tx.
Venture was like Target. It was Kmart and, Venture instead of Walmart and, Target. As I type this they say the 2 are affiliated. Ironic timing.😁
BEST! America before diversity, equity and inclusion.
I vaguely remember the store BEST! The logo was a hand with the index finger up an a string tied around it.
I still wait by the phone on my birthday waiting for a call from Geoffrey Giraffe. The call never comes …… 😢
I remember kay- bee toy store radio shack and toys r us 👍
I was born in 1996 and I remember getting my first RC Car at radioshack
My school had 4 TRS 80 Radio Shack computers and only honors students could take the class. we learned BASIC. I will never forget IF THEN.
I really miss Radio Shack. I did my Masters thesis on a Color Computer and Word Star on a cassette tape player with a dot matrix printer. Yes, I am that old.
I never heard of Peaches or Ventures.
Also contributing to Blocklbuster's decline: Their reputation for delay in checking in returned video rentals and then billing customers for additional days. It happened to me and that was the last time I rented from them.
Blockbuster video will not be missed. They made a good chunk of money just from penalty fees.
So you were the reason i could never find the last copy of what i wanted....swine
I got a penalty fee for not rewinding the VHS tapes I rented. 😂
@@FrankensteinsMonster-1313
"PLEASE BE KIND, REWIND!"
I don't miss magnetic tape as a form of storing media. I do miss having several different video/computer game stores that had their own personalities.
I definitely miss Hollywood Video & Radio Shack for sure 😔
I worked for both Sam Goody and Blockbuster. I think I might be old.
A & S! The stores looked so elegant in those shots. No wonder I won Best Dressed in elementary school a lot.
Malls will also be a thing of the past.
I used to hang out at Tower Records back then. I got lots of stuff when they closed for good. They were practically giving merch away. (Jan Griffiths).
Kind of surprised Jamesway didn't make the cut. Maybe you'll do a Part 2?
We have a few Radio Shack's in my area, granted they are now focusung on cell phones, tablets, Chromebooks and their accessories.
Hate to break it to you, but Toys R Us is still open. We have several of them in the Phoenix AZ area along with some Baby's R Us stores. They are pretty run down and don't get a lot of traffic, But they're still here.
If you know where to look you can still find a they used to have a Radio shack inside a hobby shop in Santee area of San Diego California
I remember the KB toys in 80s. Shame Radio Shack, the place where Boomers & Gen X bought/saw their 1st computers (Commodores) couldn't figure out internet sales.
I worked for KB toy store in CT back in the late 80s to early 90s.
Shopping ain't what it used to be!! 😞
Exactly. EVERY SINGLE pair of shoes I ever bought online went back!
Good. It used to be a hellish experience.
There's a Blockbuster still open in Bend, Oregon
I will always remember KB Toys because I would go there every day to see if they had the Double Dragon nes game back in stock as a kid. Never understood how Circuit City went down but Best Buy is still around. I loved Circuit City.
I miss KayBee. My parents used to go to the mall and just leave me in there the whole time so i could wander around looking at all the stuff i knew they weren't going to buy me, lol. I guess shopping online is fine these days, but nothing beat just being at a physical store surrounded by every toy imaginable. I miss the 80's :/
I was just looking at my key chain I still have a red Borders reward card.
13:41 It's not called "Iconic Breeze", the air purifier's name was "Ionic Breeze", basically an ionizer :)
Thank goodness that video stores have disappeared! It rubbed me wrong going to them and browsing videos with 95% of all indecisive other people.
Finding videos on Netflix or Amazon is _such_ a superior method!
Well, that’s what basically killed it. The good thing with Netflix is if you don’t like a movie, just stop it and select something else. With a tape rental that was boring, you fell asleep on it and the TV ended up watching you 😂. You woke up when the VCR made the clicking and clacking sounds of rewinding and ejecting the tape😂
I miss the long gone Tower Records, there was also J&C house of Records. Arthur's Toy stores for kids. Radio Shack 99% percent or more of the time always had what I was looking for.
There is a RadioShack in Washington NC!
Sam goody had a half dozen business names like "On Cue"!
They missed Duckwalls/Alco, Gambles, Otasco, Western Auto among others.
Those aren't famous.
Blockbuster still exists! There is 1 left in Bend Oregon.
You could add Bradlee’s to this list also. Should have been right along side Caldor’s.
FAO Schwartz was fun as a kid in the mall
Does it still exist? I used to take my nieces and nephews there in San Francisco in the 1980s. My grandmother took my oldest brothers there in the 1950s. Also shopped at Gumps in San Francisco. I wonder if it still exists.
There is still one blockbuster in Oregon
The Woolworth's Lunch Counter on the "State Street Mall" in Chicago had The BEST Thin Crust Pizza I've Ever Had IN MY LIFE!!! I can Almost Taste IT!!!!!😃 Soon you'll have to add Sears, Roebuck, & Co. to the list! My Granddaddy used to take me there ALL the TIME!!😭😭
I remember Woolworths had banana splits too with the 3 scoops of ice cream in a big long dish
There are still open Radio Shack stores in Arkansas.
In the UK, Woolworths was known as "Woolies."
Block Buster Video almost put themselves out of business the first week. If you didn't have a credit card, you couldn't get a membership. They changed their policies a week later to just needing a driver's license.
White Front? Levitz Furniture? Cost Plus Imports? Were those only local to me in San Leandro, California? My mother bought all sewing supplies at Fabric Lane. I don't live in the US anymore and can't remember if it was a chain or not.
Made to 1:01 before getting real sad.
Surprise you did not mention turtles music and tapes
Radio Shack still has stores open
I remember Childs World toy store going out of business in the early 90's but I never remember a kiddie City store. Did Chicago have any around the area?
I think there was a Child World in Burbank, ILL near a Toys R Us but T.R.U. Crushed Child World!! Child World didn't last very long.
KB Toys was the absolute best!
I saw a Woolworth's a kid but never went inside it. The one I saw was the very one that had the sit ins and is now a civil rights museum.
I worked at the Woolworth cafe in Roosevelt field in 1986 for a whopping $3.35/hr 😂
I bought my first component stereo system at Radio Shack in the late 60s..
Mine was a Panasonic stereo from Alexander’s
Yeah I remember the the peaches in the fort Lauderdale across the street from dunkin' donuts Dennis it is now at least with the musical stop on it at least when I was embarrassed at 10 years ago and the thing that I used to have in the front of it where people would sign it
Zayre’s was my favorite discount store over K-Mart, etc.
That explains why Kmart always had great jewelry. My young aunt would buy a lot of stuff over the years.
Half we didn't have in our towns, but we did some "Big" names
Isador Strauss co-owned Macy's and he was on the Titanic when it sank in April 1912
Hollywood vid got 20 years at least
"Rewinding taps was an art form." Who writes this? Did you actually ever rewind a tape? You put it in and pushed the rewind button. I've been able to rewind my own tape since I was like 4, and my parents would rent me CareBears tapes on Bata. It's not an art form. It's a button.
Relax !!! WTF
*tapes
ASMR-...
Ahem...
It's not Bata. It's [obviously a typo, yr welcome].
Problem was some people didn’t rewind and if the store didn’t check it; the next person started the movie on the ending credits 😂. It wasn’t such a chore. Just press rewind and walk away. It stopped automatically. 😂. Some of the later VCRs automatically rewinded when the tape reached the end.
About a year ago, I was at a bus stop and these school kids were playing an old song on thier phone. It brought back memories and I said “I had this song on tape”. They looked at me and said “what’s a tape?” 😂😂😂. Wow! Am I that ancient 😂😂😂
I remember Tandy Co. for leather making kits.
Once upon a time I owed Hollywood Video a lot of late charges.
The Hollywood Video in Vegas had a hunted house theme with creaking floors dark lighting with creepy music and a count Dracula animatronic coming out of his coffin every minuet,
In the 1980s Radio Shack started selling Radio Shank Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer
Ah yes.. TRS-80. My first computer. The memories. I so miss the 80s!
Toy R Us started charging too much for its products. While very convenient, who wants to pay $5-10 more for products. Same for Circuit City, which I loved . The story of the Woolworth heiress is heartbreaking 💔
Toys r us should’ve downsized and concentrated on their bread and butter. First, get rid of kids r us. Then toys r us should have focused on baby products, toys like Lego, nerf, hot wheels, Star Wars, Barbie, bicycles and video games (adopt game stop’s buy and trade model). They may have still needed to eventually close, but they would have lasted longer.
There still is a Peaches Records and Tapes in New Orleans, Louisiana
I was lucky and won free video rentals for life at Hollywood Video. I rented one and could take home 10 videos for free. I got a letter when Hollywood Videos was closing. They said, they have made more money than they will ever know what to do with. Time to retire.
At Radio Shack : Customer - I just have this one item I'm buying for 1 dollar. Cashier - just need your name , address, phone # , E-mail address , ..... Customer - Never Mind !
2 Raido Shacks still exist in VA.
1:47 is the guy at the counter in that commercial John Cho? Looks like him.
It Sure Does!!!!!🧐😎They all gotta start somewhere!!
It's overland park Kansas I loved Venture they were better than Walmart!
Walmart and Toys R Us crushed K-B Toys with lower prices.
And selection. Most of the KB stores were small. Nothing in comparison to the toys r us stores and don’t get me started on Walmart super stores! You can put 5 miles on your shoes just walking around the store!