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Lol...I wish I had a Pee Chee map! :) Pee Chees were big here in Colorado. Everyone had their Pee Chees on the first day of high school. Of course, they only cost about a 25 cents back then. It can’t only be Colorado, though. Gotta be some other people out there in FRland that remember the folder that grew up in another state.

From Wiki...but doesn't give a map or list of states where they were sold. :(

These relatively inexpensive folders are made of card stock and have two internal pockets for the storage of loose leaf paper. The pockets are printed with a variety of reference information including factors for converting between Imperial and metric measurement units, and a multiplication table. The folders have fallen out of general use by the 2000s, but are available from Mead as of 2014.

The illustrations on Pee-Chee folders changed occasionally over the years, but usually depict high-school-age students engaged in sports or other activities. Artist Francis Golden, best known for watercolors of fishing and hunting, drew the illustrations that have graced the Pee-Chee folders since 1964. It became popular to deface these figures, often with scurrilous doodles and thought balloons. The major difference between Pee-Chees and other paper folders is the inside pockets. Pee Chees have pockets located at the sides, not the bottom, which prevents the contents from falling out if the folder is inadvertently stored upside down.

The Pee-Chee portfolio was given its name because the folders were initially only available in peach; the folders are now available in five colors and have been renamed “Color Talk Pee-Chee Folders″, but the original yellow-peach color remains the most popular by far.

The retro Pee-Chee illustrations now add nostalgic flair to official merchandise for the indie duo She & Him, which consists of Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward, T-shirts, and iPad cases.

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

Pee-Chees were also big on the entire West Coast. I had them going to school in Washington State.

And I also remember the Trapper Keeper! I had one of those as well. Wish I still had it, too! I know they still sell the Trapper Keeper, but I recall the original designs. They were pretty cool, and quite handy. Now that I’m teaching English, I can tell you there’s nothing like that here in Europe, unless you want to go an office-supply store and pay and arm and a leg for an organizer, typically, leather-bound here.