i used to go to that bookstore all the time....

isn't omega still open though?

1/16/2008 10:44:23 PM

we used to rent video tapes at Phar-mor.

1/17/2008 10:02:55 AM

who remembers Peebles and Uptons?

1/18/2008 2:49:28 PM

Camelot Music.

1/18/2008 2:59:57 PM

ahhh Camelot Music. it was right beside the McCrorys at my old mall


County Seat

[Edited on January 18, 2008 at 3:27 PM. Reason : add]

1/18/2008 3:26:48 PM

don't know if omega is still open or not....haven't lived in NC for over a decade...but if that small place has been able to stay open in the face of huge chains, more power to them!

1/18/2008 7:24:25 PM

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"we used to rent video tapes at Phar-mor."

I remember renting the movie Critters with my dad from a RaceTrac gas station in my hometown. They had a whole section of VHS tapes.

My hometown's also one of the few places I've actually seen a Super 10--it's owned by the same company that owns Rose's. Last I heard (when I had a friend working for the company), Super 10s were still using register tape to keep all their financial records ... that's old school.

1/19/2008 12:18:48 AM

^^ I thought Omega was a chain...


and what the fuck is Rose's

1/19/2008 1:04:45 AM

Rose's was like a K-mart or a Kings. If I remember correctly. We would go there before there were Walmarts and Targets.

1/19/2008 1:59:55 AM

^^

yep Omega is a chain, but i think local to NC. And I think the one on Battleground ave. in greensboro is still open, or at least it was around Christmas time.

I thought of a few more old school joints that were at least around in greensboro

Hot-n-now
Roy rogers
Sally's Hot Dogs

(ok not retail)


[Edited on January 19, 2008 at 7:58 AM. Reason : sdf]

1/19/2008 7:56:42 AM

not retail.. but P.D. Quix. I think there's one left in Sanford.

Carbonated Video

1/19/2008 8:55:12 AM

SkyCity was the only dept. store in my home county growing up. Western Auto was another place I remember well. I used to love to go there with my dad and look at all their stuff.

Now what do we have? We have WalMart and AutoZone. Ughh....

1/19/2008 11:19:21 PM

^^^I remember Sally's well. Roy Rogers too...they still exist in places, just not in this area anymore. If you're ever headed up north on I-95 and have a jones for roast beef, there's a Roy Rogers at the "Maryland House" rest area.

Isn't the Omega in Crossroads still open? The one near Men's Wearhouse and Michael's?

1/21/2008 1:54:13 PM

Red n White

Kountry Kwik Pick

Save Alot

Nahunta Pork ftw

[Edited on January 21, 2008 at 4:51 PM. Reason : .]

1/21/2008 4:50:14 PM

^ There are still some Red & White stores. I know Smith's Red & White in Red Oak, NC is still open. They have some of the best cuts of meat and sausages that you'll find on the east coast.

1/21/2008 5:47:28 PM

CABLEVISION

1/21/2008 6:00:20 PM

Food Town



later became Food Lion though

1/21/2008 9:09:21 PM

i remember peebles

1/21/2008 11:55:09 PM

omg.. Zayre's!! GG

The one by my old house in Newburgh, NY became an Ames.

What about:
Chess King
OakTree
Alexanders (back in NYC area)
Turtles Music
Strawberry's
Fotomat

haha and damn Service Merchandise

plus I remember just about every large supermarket had a video rental section and/or photo developing

[Edited on January 24, 2008 at 5:18 AM. Reason : video]

1/24/2008 5:17:09 AM

Peaches Records & CDs? A local chain to the triad, I think, but there were several locations...

1/24/2008 9:33:28 AM

I don't think anyone's mentioned Record Bar yet. It was in Cameron Village, in what used to be the part under the parking deck, next to the Waldenbooks (also no longer there). Turtles music took over the retail space after Record Bar folded. I went there until I first heard of Best Buy (around 1996), and realized that $18 for a CD was ridonkulous. Best Buy pretty much ruined me for the small music stores.

Who remembers Aladdin's Castle Arcade in the Crabtree Pavilion? It was over in the corner near the hallway to the restrooms. My friend had his 10th birthday party there, his parents rented the whole place out for the evening.

[Edited on January 25, 2008 at 5:10 PM. Reason : dookey]

1/25/2008 5:10:12 PM

shoutout to richtofen for the nod to Hechingers... thats awesome...

People's Drug
Bonus Food
Jamesway
High's Convenience Stores
Leggett's
Frank's Garden and Nursery

1/26/2008 1:39:05 PM

damn, Jamesway.

add to list:

Hills
Caldor

[Edited on January 26, 2008 at 7:38 PM. Reason : coming soon: Sears ]

1/26/2008 7:37:54 PM

talked to my family tonight... came up with some good ones:

Crown Books
Service Merchandise
Kinney Shoes
Woolworths

1/26/2008 10:42:28 PM

i had some relatives that worked at record bar and they have all these awesome autographs of 80s people who used to come to town for concerts haha, like the go-gos etc.

Peebles is still around there is one in Roxboro

one of my favorite stores was little professor's bookstore in wilmington, i used to go there and buy books on a weekly basis and the people who worked there knew exactly what i was looking for, not sure if it was a chain or not.

1/27/2008 8:09:08 PM

Quote :

"Kinney Shoes"

Hah, i remember this place.

1/27/2008 10:15:20 PM

Hmm. . .

McLellan's
Western Auto

All I can think of right now.

PS: What about Foodland?

[Edited on January 28, 2008 at 3:55 AM. Reason : .]

1/28/2008 3:51:13 AM

I was in a Roses today.

1/28/2008 5:26:10 PM

Eckerd

haha

1/28/2008 10:23:30 PM

Not really retail, but convenience store chains I rarely see anymore


FastFare

The Scotchman

1/28/2008 11:14:41 PM

Quote :

"FastFare"

Shit yeah, i remember stopping at the fast fare all the time on our bikes on the way to the rec center.

1/29/2008 7:20:20 AM

someone asked about "nickles". It was actually Nichols. There was one in Wilson out on Hwy 301.

Whoever said "King's" gets an A+!!

1/29/2008 1:23:38 PM

fast fare is still here. There is one at the corner of Capital and Spring Forest and one at the corner of Leadmine and Old Leadmine rds.

2/1/2008 5:19:50 PM