Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire What places, things, or stores are gone that you grew up with?

I thinking about redtop burgers joint. Now maybe cabelas.

Montgomery Ward
Western Auto
F& W Woolworth
Rexall
Coast to Coast
Kenny Shoes

A&P stores,
Buster Brown Shoes
S&H Kress
Setzers

Places:

Many places to shoot/hunt near where I grew up in San Diego.

Things:
Sunshine Raisin Bar cookies

Stores:
Some already listed
Walker Scott department stores

Which of them do I miss the most?

Sunshine Raisin Bars.
Can't see myself getting back to SD except for visits to relatives.

Geno

The little family owned, neighborhood stores like our butcher shop, the bakery, the shoe store, the local gun shop, etc. These were places owned by neighbors, many of whom lived above the store. Places where the entire family worked to actually make customers happy and folks who became friends.



What I miss most is morality. All one has to do to see how far we have fallen is turn on the TV and experience what is now considered entertainment.

Gulfmart
Spartin
Woolworth's
Winn's 5 & 10
TG & Y
Handy Andy's
Mr. M's
Short's Corner
Frank Sill's Snack Shack
Lone Star Ice & Food Stores
Alcova Bar
Moneta Bar
Boysen Bar
Arminto Hotel
The Pearl Brewery
The original Wetmore Store when it was the post office, butcher shop, beer joint and dry goods store.

For those who grew up in TX, Gibson Discount Stores were the best!
They had the largest selection of Guns, Reloading supply's, Fishing Gear, and Archery Equipment EVER!
Not to mention, toys, clothes, automotive, electronics, garden tools, appliances, jewelry, tools, ect........

gibsons

Ben Franklins

I grew up in small town USA, so I recognize some of the stores listed, but not nearly all of them.

We use to go hunting/fishing anyplace we wanted to, and nobody cared.
The small town dry goods store, that had just about everything... clothes, shoes, fishing/hunting supplies, dynamite... they had it all.
The cotton gin... every town had one and now there is only a handful left, none in my part of the country.

Yep we had a Gibson's in my home town (San Angelo). Bought my first rifle and shotgun there. B&W was another cool department store with a great sporting goods section!

Enjoyed several great gunshops in the general Twin Tiers NY/PA area, Solocks in Sayre PA, Ray Hotchkiss in Elmira NY, Ed Harts in Bath, Shoes, Creekside in Canandaigua. Sugarmans down in Wilkes Barre-Scranton was a great trip back in the day.
The advent of malls & big box stores pretty much ruined the shopping experience. Destroyed, rather than "ruined" is likely a better description.
Malls/big box stores suck/sucked so bad that I think they paved the way for contemporary "Online" shopping.
Sears Roebuck might be an example of a once great store, selling great products, that has not done well in malls and trying to be a bigbox. Sad.
Grocery stores like Grand Unions, A&P, Mohawk were more pleasant, and efficient timewise, shopping experiences than Walmart, Target, or Tops.
Single screen movie theatres provided a far more pleasant experience, in every way, than the current multiplexes. Getting so years go by between "going to the movies."
Not a fan of any of the current hook and bullet TV shows, thought I have fond recollections of Gadabout Gaddis and The American Sportman Marketing as done in todays world is simply overbearing.
I make an honest effort to shop the local small shops and to buy American when I can. I take pride that I can count my annual visit to Walmart on one hand.
I'm guessing this is why I am considered a card carrying curmudgeon.

Winns

OMG ! I thought I was the only person who missed them, they were my very favorites of all time.

You have excellent taste Sir !

The Lovely Ms Peggy and I went looking for a Outdoor Nativity set Good luck trying to find one

But plenty of blow up Santas snowmen etc

VERY SAD

Hank

Fred Warren's.
Frostop.
Red Steer.
Longbranch.
Rosco Tempo.
Depot.
Betty's Steam Room.
The Ace of Hearts.
Tiki Club.
Farrell's Ice Cream.
Vinyl 33's.
Rupp Motorcycle.
Allis Chalmers.
Pontiac.
Port Chicago.
Candlestick.
The Hamms bear.

You can still get the next best thing via Amazon.
Crawford's Garibaldi raisin biscuits.
google search should bring up order site, if you can't find it PM your e mail and I will send a link.
Not 100% the same but a strong 95+

H L Hodges & Co - THE gun dealer in eastern NC in the 1950's, 60's & 70's - I still have one shotgun I bought there and the first Buck knife I ever owned. Lot's more good stores gone and the replacements just aren't the same.

Loved Gibson's!

As a kid, the guys at the sporting goods counter knew when they saw me come in, I'd probably done enough chores, or found enough Coke bottles to cash in for some more .22, or shotgun ammo.

Sugermans Eynon drug. We never bought a bigger ticket item, appliances guns ect.with out checking them first. They would also have real after Christmas discounts. They would cut prices till what they want gone was gone.

I heard he was shot in the ass somewhere over in OR....I loved that bear.....RIP