What Department Stores Looked and Sounded like in the 70s

When your department stores and your pornos had the same soundtrack...

Don't forget all of the cigarette butts all over the floor. Some department stores even had low pile carpet and people would smoke and throw it on the floor. That is the memory I still have of the 70's / early 80's. Hell, even hospitals allowed smoking until at least the mid 80s.

How did the smell of cigs not get on the clothes? Or did it and everybody just smelled like shite.

Sears had everything. If they didn’t they would order it for you.
If they played it right they could have become Amazon.

Everything smelled like smoke. Nobody noticed. Now people act like they are Ill if they just get a whiff of a cigarette.

I remember the magic that was 1970s KMart. Huge toy selection, including a full model isle. Deli in the front and a cafeteria in the back. They even had a Icee machine. For a like kid, it was just awesome. I didn’t care for Sears & Roebuck as much though because other than Christmas they didn’t have much in the line of toys, at least until Atari came out.

Basically when I was a kid, going to Sears meant something like clothes, shoes, or something for the house. Going to KMart meant TOYS!

I have to laugh at what some chodes downvote around here. Like, what’s objectionable about a kid liking a store because they have toys? How big of an absolute arse do you have to be?

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Hell, even hospitals allowed smoking until at least the mid 80s.

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I remember Caraway Hospital had a cigarette vending machine in their cafeteria back in the day.

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Sears had everything. If they didn’t they would order it for you.
If they played it right they could have become Amazon.

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True, they had warehouses, distribution, and sources of inventory. They really just threw up the white flag and said oh well, we are done

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including a full model isle.

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i dont have time to build as many as you do but back in the day i would go to the model aisle and sit there and drool over the star trek, tanks, hot rod cars & ships.