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I miss the good old days of G.I. Joe figures in small town stores
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01-31-2020, 12:52 AM
paraviper
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HitandRun
Great thread - it conjures up memories of my youth for sure. Caldor, Wal-Mart, K-Mart, TRU, the P/X and Children's Palace are all the places I got my Joes.
My dad was in the army and for a few summers we were stationed in the midwest and would drive back east to visit my grandparents - on each of those trips my dad would take me and my brother to the Children's Palace or K-mart and let us buy a few GI Joes. On my 8th or 9th Birthday my dad took me to TRU and let me pick out four Joes - Pathfinder, Sub-Zero, Night Creeper and Capt. Grid Iron were the 4 I got - I can still visualize all of the Sky Patrol stuff in the aisle - I vividly remember seeing the Sky Raven. Fun times for sure - this hobby helps me reconnect with nostalgia and jostle forgotten memories all the time.
I remember Ben Franklin too but I never purchased Joes there - my little brother used to buy Pogs from there all the time though.
Excellent story. I enjoy reading all of these. I remember going to Toys R Us and Lionel Kiddie City. It was so overwhelming and fun to see 40 foot sections of nothing but figures and vehicles. I remember it taking up like half of the Isle. We used to have a store called Jamesway. It went out of business in the early 90s. I used to buy a lot of cool GI Joes and stuff there. I remember going with my grandmother on the army base at Fort Belvoir.I always liked going to the PX to see what cool stuff they had. She always liked the thrift store as well and sometimes I would find older GI Joes that way.
Back then it was cool because the base was only open to the military at that time. A lot of times I would find cool used stuff at the thrift store. You know people wouldn't always take stuff with them when they got redeployed. My grandfather was in the army. I definitely miss her and all of those simpler times.
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