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Where did you shop for toys as a kid?
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11-30-2007, 09:27 PM
Dr. Venom
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Ah...the good ol' days. I remember TRU aisles like that. Entire aisles and endcaps devoted to SW/GIJoe/TFs.
There were three shopping centers clustered on different corners of an old clover-leaf intersection; between them, there was a TRU, K-Mart, Target and a Service Merhcandise. I have very distinct memories of buying specific toys at all of those places.
Then there was the mall...back when all the major department stores had toy sections and there were more standalone toy stores than just KB. I don't remember what they were called, but distinctly remember there being two others at some point...one of which is where I saw the Flagg for the first time.
My parents typically left me to hang out in the dept. store toy sections while they went and looked at boring grown-up stuff. This facilitated the onset of childhood kleptomania, but I digress.
Then there was..everywhere else. All those random places that carried plenty of
good
toys that don't now, if they even still exist. Grocery stores, drug stores, dime stores. There was a shopping center that had a Winn's and a Revco and then this hole in the wall dime store run by an Asian couple that was that mythical place that had original Japanese and KO versions alongside early G1 TFs.
There was also an Edison's and a Mervyn's in the complex with the TRU from above. I remember them having toy sections, but nothing too specific.
I have ZERO memory of WM as a kid. Not around here, not back then. There may have been one or two in other parts of town, but they weren't convenient and so we never went. I honestly can't remember even being in one at all until they opened one in SW Austin and that was when I was in HS. Truly the good ol' days.
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