The Woolworths in Golf Mill always gave me the creeps.

Sayre was walmart without tattoos.

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You cannot make me care about the WNBA.

That was weird. What was the point of that?

My sister worked at the Montgomery Wards "Buffeteria" in Ford City when she was in H.S. at Hubbard. I don't remember why it was called the "Buffeteria." According to the internet they named it that because it was a "combination operation serving everything from a cup of coffee to a full meal." Sound suspiciously like a restaurant to me.

Did anyone else call it "Monkey Wards"? I never really knew where that came from, so again I turned to the internet: "In 1938 as part of their expanding catalog, pets and pet supplies were offered. Among the pets offered were Caching monkeys. Of course it was very unique to have exotic animals available. So Montgomery Wards became known as the monkey store...Monkey Wards."

To make you feel like you were buying from a warehouse and saving on retail prices (see also: the aforementioned fake markup).

Remember Spiess? There was one in Randhurst. Maybe it was a little too upscale for Mount Prostate, as it was gone fairly early on in my life. I think its space turned into Old Navy and Circuit City.

I bought a bunch of SNES games at the Funcoland in the back annex of the Southpoint Mall (strip mall at the corner of Rand and Palatine). I don't think much of anything is left in there.

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I think the Funcoland is a Game Stop now. All I know is that the Dunkin Donuts is in front of it, and the Teddy's liquors is right next to that.

My grandfather worked at the Venture in Southpoint after he retired(granny made him go get a job because he was driving her nuts, yarr)

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Thomas Jefferson

The new Oldsmobiles are in early.

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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

I remember there being an MC Mages in that strip mall where we bought our street hockey sticks.

Belscot

Pretty sure MC Mages was across the street at Northpoint. It's a Corner Bakery now, I believe.

There was some little computer store on the other side of Rand, in that tiny little strip mall that's just like some Christian store now, where they would let me play some silly little Hypercard stack-based game with a penguin or duck or some such bird. Maybe it was Software Etc.? Maybe it was just a Coconuts that had computer stuff too? I know there was a Coconuts on Rand. I'm digging back to like preschool here, 1990ish. Way fuzzy.

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I have fond memories of the Zayre that was on 111th Street at around Laramie Ave, for some ungodly reason. I can picture the place right now: Christmas shopping season, greyish black muddy water pooling inside the doors the entrance, and consumer products strewn throughout the aisles making navigating the place hazardous. The store was adjacent to an old drive-in named Hungry's and a large prairie.

I believe someone either died behind Zayre or a body was found behind the store in the mid to late 1980s. My recollection is hazy on this since I was a very young whelp. That memory is mixed in with stories of child abduction, the rampant rise in the practice of suburban Satanism, and razor blades in Halloween candy. So, I could be mixing 1980s scares together.

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Back off, Warchild. Seriously.

CH is right...the Mages was in Northpoint with the Jewel. Southpoint had a Cub Foods.

I was just over there visiting my grandma last week. It's a Corner Bakery and Ross Dress for Less now.

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- Yes, I have heard "Monkey Wards" on numerous occasions.

- I worked at the St. Charles Mall's K-Mart for a year or two (when school was off) ... not so bad for a first job I guess. I believe we got paid every week, and it was at a pay window towards the back of the store, and you bloody got paid in cash! Hell, speaking of which, the other day going thru miscellaneous shit, I saw an old pay stub from there.

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Handy Andy

There used to be one in Wheaton, over dere by da Jewels.

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
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Electronic Boutique
Tower Records
Virgin Megastore
that other music store that was in Watertower Place

Rax Roast Beef.

Very good salad bar and more than decent fast food.

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