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Armybrat

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8 minutes ago, Macanudo said:

Dont tear malls down.  Turn them into senior centers.  Individual stores could be doctor offices or services seniors need access to.  Hell put social security offices and DMV offices in there too.  Add a few more restaruants/cafeterias. 

The only downside would be trying to drive anywhere near that.  All those shitty older drivers would make the area a fender bender death trap.

Git outta my way sonny.

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RDCanecutter

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1 hour ago, Macanudo said:

Dont tear malls down.  Turn them into senior centers.  Individual stores could be doctor offices or services seniors need access to.  Hell put social security offices and DMV offices in there too.  Add a few more restaruants/cafeterias. 

The only downside would be trying to drive anywhere near that.  All those shitty older drivers would make the area a fender bender death trap.

Senior centers are so low tech. Transplant the brains of elderly people into mechanical spider bodies, and give them night vision and prosthetic genitalia so they can roam neighborhoods hunting for meat long after the rest of us go to bed, then at sunrise they climb into up into trees to sleep and mate.

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5 hours ago, RDCanecutter said:

Senior centers are so low tech. Transplant the brains of elderly people into mechanical spider bodies, and give them night vision and prosthetic genitalia so they can roam neighborhoods hunting for meat long after the rest of us go to bed, then at sunrise they climb into up into trees to sleep and mate.

Go on......

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1 hour ago, 52-80 said:

I so wish I could say Ticketmaster/live Nation.... And Snapchat too

LiveNation is very worried about their burn rate considering there isn't a single music concert on the 6-month horizon.  Watch out for the app called Nerve, Lolla & ACL are gonna start pushing out cool content through it in a few weeks.  

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MaybeACoordinator

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8 hours ago, RDCanecutter said:

Ditto. And

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Ancient history.

Get with the more modern warfare of my late '70s childhood:

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And of course, the one that got away, the one my asshole parents would never buy me...

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To think I could have nuked Pittsburgh and won a Super Bowl for the Oilers, if only my parents had mailed $6.98 to Lynnbrook, NY in 1978. Or even a lousy $1 deposit and 5.98 COD.

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2 hours ago, rage-a-holic said:

Shut it yankee

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Are Californians “yanks”?  Never considered us southern rebel secessionist devils like y’all, but not really Yankees either.

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3 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:

Are Californians “yanks”?  Never considered us southern rebel secessionist devils like y’all, but not really Yankees either.

Not much of anything according to Tim Daland

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1 minute ago, Sbbruin said:

Are Californians “yanks”?  Never considered us southern rebel secessionist devils like y’all, but not really Yankees either.

I've got a 1950s board game called Texas Millionaire that has you traveling around Texas and beyond. You make money in most places in Texas but only bad things happen outside of it with one exception -- I think there is a square in Louisiana where you can win $5000 (the lowest bill in the game) at a horse race. Louisiana is one of three places outside of Texas that has its actual name, another being Mexico, where one square says "Pay $1,000,000 for nothing, senor." (It's a tad racist, this game.) California is the third -- out there you lose money on Hollywood and real estate deals and its jail is very expensive, but it's not as bleak as Indian Territory (Oklahoma) and Yankeeland (everything east of Texas that is not Louisiana). 

TL;dr: Californians are not Yankees but suck uniquely. 

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9 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

Grandaddy Canecutter lent me $2 for the Revolutionary Soldiers with the promise to pay him back. Then he up and died on me. I get to owe him forever, a burden I cannot drop.

For real? That's terrible. I had that set too...Seems like there was also one for the Late Unpleasantness as well. 

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5 minutes ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

For real? That's terrible. I had that set too...Seems like there was also one for the Late Unpleasantness as well. 

Nah, it's all evened out. Grandaddy was gonna buy us rods n reels with all the Hav-a-Tampa cigar bands, and that went nowhere, prolly in part because Hav-a-Tampa helped run his health down.

But he passed on his spit-in-the-Devil's-eye attitude. Worth gold.

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A fair amount of my personal spending has been dropping the past few years. Part of it getting older. Part of it just living a more minimalist life. Covid 19 has amped up the less spending part and I wonder if I will stay like this for a long time. Of course we won’t be post covid 19 for at least 12-18 months. 

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18 hours ago, Murfdogg21 said:

Where are we procrastinators going to find last minute gifts after the malls are shuttered by the shaggy uppity 1%?

Newsflash, it ain't the 1% or even the 10% that keep shopping malls in business. 

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I'll be interested to see what becomes of North Park Mall in Dallas.  It's one of the oldest, so its initial financing is done.  Its plant has held up real well, so it hasn't been the subject of extensive renovations, rather relatively small ones and expansions over time.

And its popularity has remained strong despite being full of the hoitiest-toitiest stores in the universe.

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I'll be interested to see what becomes of North Park Mall in Dallas.  It's one of the oldest, so its initial financing is done.  Its plant has held up real well, so it hasn't been the subject of extensive renovations, rather relatively small ones and expansions over time.
And its popularity has remained strong despite being full of the hoitiest-toitiest stores in the universe.

Gonna be damn interesting to see what they do when (not if) one of their major anchors shutters. Do they go the stonebriar route with a “kids zone” setup? A massive gym?
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Holy cow, I haven't thought about Service Merchandise in quite awhile.  their catalog was the cat's pajamas back in junior high.  Once you got past Toys R' us, there was Service Merchandise for cool stuff for your room, sporting goods, crappy watches, etc.  That and McDade's Catalog House were the go-to's as a tweener in Chicagoland in the 1980's.  Man that takes me back.  Have some rep.  

Since you’re a fellow Chicagoan, do you remember Zayre, Ames, Goldblatt’s, Cook Brothers? Lol
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There was a Gibson's in my mother's hometown in Arkansas and also in Wichita Falls.  I always liked going there, because they had kind of a "rural" selection of sporting goods.  More guns and knives and stuff than golf and football.

In Wichita Falls, I scored a Puma lockback knife on closeout for like $30, that would have normally retailed for like $75.  Unfortunately, it was stolen from my desk drawer at work many years later.

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On 5/2/2020 at 1:27 AM, atomheartbevo said:

I only had a few years as a kid where I had access to it, and even that required an hour’s drive.  It may have well have been the Holy of Holies.   TG&Y, Service Merchandise, Sears, K-Mart were it.  And the Sears, JC Penny, Montgomery Ward, and S&H Green Stamp catalogues were my toy porn.  

Forgot all about TG&Y.  Also Sage which was pretty much the only store open on Sundays in Houston in the early part of my childhood. 

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I worked at the Best Products store that was on 290 near Clayton/Reinli.  The while chain went under in '97 and I have no idea how they made it that long.  After Christmas, we did inventory one year an we were supposed to have X number of big huge console TVs.  I think it was supposed to be like 6.  We had the floor model.  The other 5 just up and vanished like a fart in the wind.  Employee theft was a huge issue. 

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I'll be interested to see what becomes of North Park Mall in Dallas.  It's one of the oldest, so its initial financing is done.  Its plant has held up real well, so it hasn't been the subject of extensive renovations, rather relatively small ones and expansions over time.

And its popularity has remained strong despite being full of the hoitiest-toitiest stores in the universe.

NorthPark will be one of the few enclosed malls in the nation that’ll survive without much change. It’ll remain more of a regional attraction first then shopping mall 2nd.

See Galleria in Houston, Woodfield Center In Chicagoland, Beverly Center in LA, even Barton Creek In Austin. Not so sure if Lakeline will make it though.

 

Mall of America is almost too big with duplicate stores so I’m curious to see what happens with it. Maybe add office space? Same with the Vegas strip duplicitous malls.

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I worked at the Best Products store that was on 290 near Clayton/Reinli.  The while chain went under in '97 and I have no idea how they made it that long.  After Christmas, we did inventory one year an we were supposed to have X number of big huge console TVs.  I think it was supposed to be like 6.  We had the floor model.  The other 5 just up and vanished like a fart in the wind.  Employee theft was a huge issue. 

 

Yup I worked there in the 70’s and/or early 80’s along with a bunch of friends. Stuff was flying out the back and the front.

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1 hour ago, Stunns38 said:


Since you’re a fellow Chicagoan, do you remember Zayre, Ames, Goldblatt’s, Cook Brothers? Lol

I certainly remember Zayre.  There was a location by our old house in Arlington Heights that we frequented when we went back up there to visit family on the reg.  

Don't remember Ames or Cook Bros.  But I have a decent-to-good mob/union story and our trucking company related to Goldblatt's.  Oh man, the memories just wash over me sometimes with just the right queue words.  

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1 hour ago, williemackgarza said:

Motts, winns, gibsons, tg&y. Original academy.
Bought my forst bbgun from academy and 1st .22 from gibsons.
Damn, those were the days

One high school summer, I worked at Houston Jewelers in sporting goods and sold rifles and Ray Bans. The next summer I worked with Robert Brazile's brother in the warehouse.

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Dallas' version of Best Products and Service Merchandise was Sterling Jewelers.  It's where Half Price Books' main location is now.

I loved that place.  Toys, sporting goods, knives, guns, stereo stuff, all at prices that couldn't be beat.  Most of my pellet guns and firearms as a lad came from there, as did my first stereo and pair of Ray Bans.  And countless toys.

RIP.

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30 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Dallas' version of Best Products and Service Merchandise was Sterling Jewelers.  It's where Half Price Books' main location is now.

I loved that place.  Toys, sporting goods, knives, guns, stereo stuff, all at prices that couldn't be beat.  Most of my pellet guns and firearms as a lad came from there, as did my first stereo and pair of Ray Bans.  And countless toys.

RIP.

lol. Dallas had Best and Service Merchandise for many years. I bought thousands of dollars worth of shit from both over the years.

And like others mentioned, Best was easy to steal from. I had a roommate that worked there who easily ganked $3k worth of shit before they canned his lazy ass.

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2 hours ago, williemackgarza said:

Motts, winns, gibsons, tg&y. Original academy.
Bought my forst bbgun from academy and 1st .22 from gibsons.
Damn, those were the days

I loved Winn's. Bought my first Star Wars figure there. 

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2 hours ago, clapclapclap said:

 

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(I think they've been gone awhile.)

My first retail job was at Weiner's, I was a sophomore in high school.  Later I worked for Bealls, I was moving right up that retail ladder.

 

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20 minutes ago, utee94 said:

My first retail job was at Weiner's, I was a sophomore in high school.  Later I worked for Bealls, I was moving right up that retail ladder.

 

Stunningly, Beall’s is not only still alive but also thriving in small town in West Texas and New Mexico....

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On 5/2/2020 at 10:26 AM, RDCanecutter said:

Ditto. And

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By the way, maybe you can clear something up.  We never really knew what the hell the guy in back with his hands spread out was doing.  I thought he was in the stocks for sodomy, but my brother thought he was a horsing around and playin' the fool with a cannon rammer.

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2 hours ago, rage-a-holic said:

lol. Dallas had Best and Service Merchandise for many years. I bought thousands of dollars worth of shit from both over the years.

And like others mentioned, Best was easy to steal from. I had a roommate that worked there who easily ganked $3k worth of shit before they canned his lazy ass.

Sterling's long predated both.  Best and Service were pale imitations when they arrived and didn't have guns, IIRC.

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