Payphone is not the only one of Everyday objects that have become OBSOLETE.
Payphone is not the only one of Everyday objects that have become OBSOLETE.
Carbonated sugar water will bring us all together!
Maybe Legacy sugar water will save us!
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Sad walking away music...
Sing it with me, children...Kmart, KMART!
My first Job was at the Kmart in Winchester Ky. I then worked at the one In Newport Ky. It was a big part of my first few years of working.
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Ah yes, Kmart. Kmart was a big part of my life growing up. It was a store that had just a little bit of everything in there, so you could hang out there for a good hour or so. Me, I walked back and forth through the toy sections. Got a couple of action figures and a Nerf blaster at Kmart. As I grew older, I saw the other advantages of Kmart. Indeed, I can still recall 20 years ago during the summer picking up household goods at Kmart since I would be starting college in September.
Where I live, Kmart lasted for a long time. Like all of our old favorites, seeing the store in it's final years was somewhat depressing. Open boxes, sparsely populated aisles, some inappropriate comments written on the bathroom stalls, and being the anchor of a strip mall that came out of Tatoonie. I will say that the strip mall has been revitalized in recent years. Sadly, however, the K-Mart isn't there. Target has replaced it.
"I am a man of peace."
"A man of peace...who fights like ten tigers."
Speaking of Kmart, did anyone else have these two discount department stores in their area:
Yep, Caldor and Bradlees were great discount shopping centers. I bought a copy of the "Pryde of the X-Men" and a VHS of Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends featuring the X-Men from one or both of these places.
"I am a man of peace."
"A man of peace...who fights like ten tigers."
Yep.
Caldor was headquartered here in Connecticut (in Norwalk). There were two of them in Norwalk: one's now a Walmart and the other location is now a Kohl's.
The Bradlees that was in Norwalk also eventually became a Walmart, but there was a rumor not too long ago that that site may become a Target store in the future.
Don't know the video you're talking about, but Caldor and Bradlees were both chains that had stores primarily in the northeastern section of the U.S., so they might not be that familiar to people elsewhere in the country. Ames was another department store chain similar to Bradlees and Caldor that went out of business not long after those two other chains did.
When I was growing up in New Jersey, the discount store chains I remember were Korvettes (E. J. Korvette), Two Guys, and (J. J.) Newberry's, now all long gone. I wasn't really aware of any K-Marts anywhere nearby me.