Anyone remember the old TG&Y stores

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We had these things all over the place.
Seemed like they had everything to buy.

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The Why of TG&Y

Looking back on the supremely satisfying shopping experience of finding it all at one-time Oklahoma-based retail chain TG&Y.
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Also had a Spartan Atlantic Department Store just down the street. It was like a Walmart before Walmart. Had everything.

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Look at those old cars.
 
And the Sears store was the go to place.
It was a go to destination when Christmas shopping.
Bought all my H.O. race car sets/cars there for years.
$2 each




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Sears: A Bygone Icon - 405 Magazine

A look back at the glory days of the three-story shopping wonderland that was the Sears on NW 23rd. |!!!|
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Used to push a 3 h.p. Briggs & Stratton powered lawn mower with 47 cents worth of gas in an old gallon milk jug with a broken branch as the stopper...a Molotov cocktail more or less...and went around the neighborhood cutting lawns for $3.00 to $5.00.

Take my money to TG&Y and buy car and truck models and model glue, paint and other supplies needed to make the model.

Was a good week when I had made enough to get two models!
 
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These used to be about 3 to 4 bucks apiece. Now this model sells for 29 bucks!
 
outofyourmind said:
And the Sears store was the go to place.
It was a go to destination when Christmas shopping.
Bought all my H.O. race car sets/cars there for years.
$2 each




www.405magazine.com

Sears: A Bygone Icon - 405 Magazine

A look back at the glory days of the three-story shopping wonderland that was the Sears on NW 23rd. |!!!|
www.405magazine.com www.405magazine.com


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Always was excited to go to the Sears at Frandor.

That one made to last year. Even the small local Sears Home stores are gone here now. Like KMart.
 
I remember the old John A. Brown Department Store, Downtown OKC
Huge department store.





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I was reading that the TG&Y chain was nationwide, but went on to say they were in 29 States. Not sure if there's a difference in there or not. Maybe not everywhere. They started in Oklahoma. That's why so many when I was a kid. Headquarters in OKC.
 
outofyourmind said:
I was reading that the TG&Y chain was nationwide, but went on to say they were in 29 States. Not sure if there's a difference in there or not. Maybe not everywhere. They started in Oklahoma. That's why so many when I was a kid. Headquarters in OKC.
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I was a Navy brat and moved from Norfolk, VA to Maryland and then out to SoCal in '66 (when things weren't quite so politically stooopid) and then I moved out here to the northeast in '89 and there was still a Woolworths store open in town. But it closed down about a year later when that whole chain went outta business.

But Sears was my mom's mainstay store. From clothes to Kenmore appliances to Goodyear tires and tuneups for the car. Her Sears credit card got quite the workout! :heh:
 
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