I also remember the Hot Shoppes restaurants which were the beginning of the Marriott empire.
Montgomery Wards, Caldor, Bradlees, Zayre, Hills, Richway, Nichols, Cooks, Woolco, Woolworth, GC Murphy, Best, Service Merchandise, TG&Y, Hechinger, are among the many regional and national retailers catering to the middle class in the 1950’s, 60’s and 70’s that were destroyed by the WalMart juggernaut. Would we as a county be better off today if the antitrust laws has been used to break up mega retailers, resulting in more competition? Certainly the consolidation of the industry destroyed hundreds of thousands of jobs.
ah yes, I remember most of those.
I remember Zayre was called Towers before it was Zayre.
I remember Woolworth’s and other 5 and dime stores, such as JJ Newberry. Are there any 5 and dime stores of any kind left? I doubt it.