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Playville in Covington is closing
Posted on 12/4/17 at 9:56 am
Posted on 12/4/17 at 9:56 am
Don't know if anybody cares, but it was a nice little independently owned toy store that offered higher end, quality toys and games, along with educational materials and scouting stuff. A victim of chain stores and Amazon. They'll be open until the middle of the month if you want to go by and pick up something, or if you've shopped there for your kids and want to stop by for nostalgia's sake. LINK
This post was edited on 12/4/17 at 9:58 am
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Posted on 12/4/17 at 9:56 am to Jim Rockford
yeah it's a shame. went there as a kid. it is/was a great store.
Posted on 12/4/17 at 9:59 am to Jim Rockford
Had many a toy from there as a kid.
Posted on 12/4/17 at 9:59 am to Jim Rockford
yeah sucks nowadays kids just play on their ipads and game boxes...they dont have time to play with toys and use their imaginations like most of us did back n the day
Posted on 12/4/17 at 10:00 am to Jim Rockford
Toy Fair, Shreveport's independently owned higher end toy store, also closed this year.
Posted on 12/4/17 at 10:01 am to Jim Rockford
I bought my first skateboard from Playville in the 80's.
Posted on 12/4/17 at 10:03 am to Jim Rockford
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A victim of chain stores and Amazon.
This is retail, the act of getting premade stuff from manufacturers to consumers. Would it be better that the "victims" were billions of consumers paying higher prices for "service" they don't actually need?
Posted on 12/4/17 at 10:07 am to TigerinATL
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This is retail, the act of getting premade stuff from manufacturers to consumers. Would it be better that the "victims" were billions of consumers paying higher prices for "service" they don't actually need?
This was a place where kids could actually go in and play with the toys. There were murals of the walls. It had a toy train set running above the cash register. The owner would go to market every year and pick out the toys herself. People will make their decisions, but something is lost along the way, and future generations of kids won't even be aware of what they missed. There's no charm in the UPS guy delivering a cardboard box.
Posted on 12/4/17 at 10:09 am to Jim Rockford
This is why we need net neutrality to end the internet
Posted on 12/4/17 at 11:17 am to Jim Rockford
Man... I think I had every playmobile toy they had in stock
Posted on 12/4/17 at 11:21 am to Jim Rockford
Probably open up as a new Ra Shop location. That’s what kids are into these days.
Posted on 12/4/17 at 11:26 am to Jim Rockford
I remember going there as a kid.
Its a nice place, but they were super expensive. Maybe they had come down, but man I remember their prices were high.
Its a nice place, but they were super expensive. Maybe they had come down, but man I remember their prices were high.
Posted on 12/4/17 at 11:29 am to Jim Rockford
That sucks. I used to take my kids there to see what toys they liked. Then I’d go back to the house and buy them online for 75% of the price.
Posted on 12/4/17 at 12:49 pm to Jim Rockford
I remember when Playville opened in the very early 1980’s and they did a good bit of business related to bicycles - sales, maintenance, etc. They put up a good fight against Wal-Mart if they were opened this long. I’ll miss it from a nostalgia perspective but they probably played a role in closing down other stores like Ben Franklin, Morgan & Lindsay’s, and Jim Frederick’s.
Posted on 12/4/17 at 12:52 pm to Jim Rockford
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There's no charm in the UPS guy delivering a cardboard box.
My kids love it when the UPS guy shows up, and ultimately, the cardboard box ends up getting played with more than whatever is inside of it. Bad example.
Posted on 12/4/17 at 12:53 pm to BigPerm30
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That sucks. I used to take my kids there to see what toys they liked. Then I’d go back to the house and buy them online for 75% of the price.
Posted on 12/4/17 at 12:54 pm to theOG
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the cardboard box ends up getting played with more than whatever is inside of it
Are your children cats, by shot?
This post was edited on 12/4/17 at 12:55 pm
Posted on 12/4/17 at 12:56 pm to JetFuelTyga
No, they just love box.
Posted on 12/4/17 at 12:57 pm to Jim Rockford
I pass by that place often and wondered how they've managed to stay in business for as long as they have. I'd been in there a couple of times and found them to be expensive, but then again like it was said their stuff was more high-end. I also wonder how the art galleries and boutiques in old Covington stay open. Do they really do that much business?
Posted on 12/4/17 at 12:57 pm to Jim Rockford
Kern's Kiddieland and Howard Griffin Land of Toys >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> playville
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