[Dallas59]

Alot of nostalgic stuff is lost to me because they were regional brands. Like Black Label Beer, seen the commercials on Youtube but never the real thing.

Here's some five and dime stores that are defunct. Some I remember here in the DFW area, some were in other parts of the country...

My favorite store as a kid was Gibsons...had a huge toy department.

Ames Department Stores Inc.
Bradlees
Caldor
Cornet
Danners 5 & 10
F. W. Woolworth Company – successor corporation is Foot Locker Inc.
GEM
Gemco
G. C. Murphy
H.L. Green
Hudson Brothers
E. J. Korvette
J.G. McCrory
Memco – locations became Bradlees
J.J. Newberry
Jamesway
Jupiter Discount
Kuhn's Big K – merged with Wal-Mart
MacFrugals – merged into Big Lots!v McLellan's
Memco
Neisner's
Otasco – Texas
Murphy's Mart
Richman Gordman – business model overhauled and name shortened to Gordmans in the late 1990s
Rodgers – Oregon
S. S. Kresge – renamed Kmart in 1977
S. H. Kress
Shopper's City
Sky City
Sprouse-Reitz
TG&Y
The Store – Wichita, Kansas
Two Guys
Valu-Mart (alternatively branded as Villa-Mart)
Venture Stores
Woolco
W. T. Grant
Zayre
Zody's

[beaversmom]

Wow, that’s quite a list! Great job. know we had a Zayre’s here in Colorado when we arrived in the mid-70s. And the Woolco was near my high school in the 80s. I liked that department store. When I was in middle school, I can remember dabbling in some theft from Woolco! I think I stole a lip gloss. And I do remember MacFrugal’s, too. It was where the Woolco had been! :) We also had one here when we arrived called Yellow Front. Joslins was a department store that went out of business. I’m not sure of the stores we had in Maine. I would have to ask my mom.

[beaversmom]

We also had Skaggs Drugs, followed by Osco, then followed by Payless Drugs. All gone.

[yldstrk]

Iremember GEM, Gemco and Kresge’s

[JacksonCalhoun]

That’s a great list, I remember a bunch of these in CT, a lot which went bankrupt in the ‘90s like Ames, Bradlees, Caldor, some of them I even remember going bankrupt in the ‘70s like W.T. Grant, Two Guys, even E. J. Korvette. I spent a lot of time at F.W. Woolworth buying “Coke Floats” and candy and eating at the lunch counter. I bought a lot of Atari cartridges and soft pretzels and LPs at Caldor in the early ‘80s. Good store, lots of high school kids worked there.

Now in NC (and just about everywhere else) it’s just Target (2 within 2 miles) and Wal-Mart and that’s about it for better or for worse.