re: Favorite "no longer around" store growing up - vote for your favorite

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Check yo spelling

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Howard’s was Walmart before Walmart.

I worked at a Jitney Jungle grocery in my teen years. There was a Howard’s in the same shopping center.

Pre-1934 it was possible to mail order Thompson sub-machine guns from the Western Auto catalog.

Schewgmanns
A&P
Western Auto

Typical K&B run for my dad. A gallon of taaka or K&B vodka and a half gallon of ice cream for the kids.

My moms first job was in NOLA at K&B. She worked the deli counter. To this day she refers to the store as Katz and Besthoff.

Swegmanns had the absolute best French bread.

Kmart and the announcement of the blue light special

Some Kmarts also had a small cafeteria inside.

Howard Brothers and Howard Griffin used to confuse the hell out of me as a kid.

I really liked Service Merchandise.

19c hamburgers at Burger Chef. Rigjt down from PakASak

TG&Y as a kid and Woolworths when I was stealing baseball cards

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gotta be kern's kiddie land if its not howard griffin.

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My mother confirmed it was Howard Griffin.

Fun fact, Willie Robertson's wife is HG's granddaughter.
somehow my mother knew that also.

K&B, followed by Eckerd Drugs

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K&B ice cream!

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and the soda counter at Woolworth's !