Do You Remember Gold Circle Discount Department Stores?
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- Gold Circle was a discount department store chain based in Ohio. Founded in 1967, it was a division of Federated Department Stores with 76 stores when the chain was sold and dismantled in 1988. This is a viewer suggested video.
I grew up in Dayton, Ohio and I remember my parents taking me to shop at Gold Circle. I used to hang out in their music section.
Worked at GC from 1980 to 1987 in Columbus, OH. The most fun at any job I've ever had. Lifelong friends and fond memories. I miss the store.
thanks for sharing your memories
My god, I could talk all day about the memories.....I'm 49 now, I got all of my Kenner Star Wars toys there , Gi Joe, I remember every inch of what one location was like and after years later , it turned into toys r us, I walked through it and it was so weird, I remember where everything use to be! I remember a tiny cafeteria in the back that sold these amazing French fries , my first records I bought with my own money were from there , Madonna Like A Virgin! I remember the men's department as I got older and I could buy my own clothing , I use to think I was such a player picking out my hang ten and brut bikini briefs ... I remember that concession stand that you'd smell entering at the end of the cash resisters ... popcorn and cherry slushee's, they had a brachs pick a mix area, I won a huge Xmas stocking one year after picking the right number out of a fishbowl when I bought a slushee the candy machines had stickers in those plastic bubbles that would come out when you'd put a quarter in... we had s upper parking level on this one and me and my brother loved going up and down in the elevator!!!!
You would be talking about the store on Glenway Ave. in Cincinnati. Loved it when my mom parked on the roof. I remember my mom going there when they had their Dollar Days sales and stocking up. To this day I miss that store. Gold Circle was the best. The good old days!
@@saf4530 omg yes!!!!!!! I wish the room were still open to the public, my god I loved Gold Circle, especially that location. My whole life is connected to it!!!!!!
Ridge Rd Gold Circle here...WHOOP WHOOP! Now all we need is a Swallens mini-documentary!
@@sladewilson4354 lmao hey!!!!! Yes!!! Swallens was all that too!!!!!!!
@@gregoryreed4866 Or how about this one...Do you remember MARKETS INTERNATIONAL in Tri-County???
Their toy department was next level. Thank you!
thanks for watching
I got a huge Tyco race set there about 75’ or so, those were the days
@@deborahchesser7375 Indeed.
It was a great place to work in the 80s as a teen, lots of fun. I was there when it closed down and a lot of tears were shed by everyone.
I remember wanting to buy makeup and perfume from these stores. I loved them. But I was very young. The prices were too high for our family. Going there was a special treat. I didn’t know that they lasted only til ‘88.
I bought my first LP at Gold Circle in Evendale OH in the early 1980s: Business As Usual by Men at Work.
My family shopped there often, especially during back-to-school season, back when there were no pre-washed jeans. You bought the new, cardboard-stiff jeans in the fall, wore them all year to break them in, then cut them off in the summer for shorts.
Man am I old now.
Thanks for sharing those nice memories. Good times my friend.
I was born in Columbus and GC was our go-to for school clothes, typically the night before the first day :).
I vaguely remember Gold Circle. There was one in Springdale, Ohio (across from Tri-County Mall) and that is the one we always went to. Since they closed in 1988, I was only 4 at the time, and though I don't remember too much about the inside of the store, I remember exactly where the Springdale store was... which was the same plaza as Toys R Us and Service Merchandise. Caddy-corner to that plaza was another shopping plaza with Camelot Music and Zayre.
I haven't been in that area for a few years now, but as recently as 2019, the Kemper Road entrance immediately adjacent to the Gold Circle store still had the entrance and exit signs intact and in good shape.
thanks for sharing your memories
I used to shop at the one on Colerain Ave!!
My brother and I got a huge Tyco race set in the mid 70’s at GC, Ontarios foods was next door. Then Fazios, I miss those days.
I am from Dayton Ohio and the Gold Circle we shopped at in the 70s was on Gettysburg Ave. it was in a plaza
thanks for sharing your memories
Yessss!!! The popcorn! I only have the vaguest memories of Gold Circle and the smell of the popcorn is the most vivid. Every time I walk into a Target and smell the popcorn there I'm reminded of all those childhood trips to "the city."
The popcorn, pretzels and Icees. Also, I loved looking at the records and great selection of toys they had. I love you forever, Gold Circle.
Finally!!!! Thank you for bringing attention to Gold Circle. I long for pics inside the store. Hardly any commercials exist. Gold Circle was my jam as s kid!!!! Thank you thank you
Thanks for sharing those nice memories and thanks for watching.
Eric C Productions and subscribed
@@gregoryreed4866 thanks for subscribing, I got a ton of videos on defunct stores and now malls.
We were walking through our local Gold Circle smelling the popcorn and going nuts over this giant Tycho racetrack with 4 speed controllers, wouldn’t you Dad bought it for us on a whim. He must have been in a good mood, it was 1975, Great times
@@deborahchesser7375 thanks for sharing that nice memory. thanks for watching
I remember playing Nintendo games at a gold circle in Rochester NY , they had a demo setup in the electronics section , that store ended up becoming a Hills and then eventually Caldor before closing for good in the mid 90’s
I forgot about Hills. Kiddie City had demo stands too.
I worked for GC from 1984-1988 at store #38 in Cuyahoga Falls.
Bought all of my HeMan action figures there at the Massillon store
In the Mid-80's, Gold Circle (Massilon OH) was the first place I saw CDs being sold along with the record albums. VHS tapes as well. But mostly I was looking at what Transformers they had on the shelves.
Yeah I remember seeing CDs there for the first time also.
I remember the one in Colerain, OH. That one was behind a Showbiz/Chuck E. Cheeses and it even had a movie theatre in it called Gold Circle Cinemas.
thanks for sharing your memories
Gold Circle opened seven stores in Northern California in the mid 70s. Four were in the San Jose area
and three were in Sacramento. I worked at one of the Sacramento stores from November of 1977 until
they closed the stores in 1981. Ahh... memories !
My hubby worked there during the cabbage patch thing..
Nice, then he got to experience the hysteria first hand.
Can you do one about caldor
Sure: ua-cam.com/video/_0IYi_Cts9w/v-deo.html
Our gold circle changed into Caldor, then that closed
thanks for watching
Could you make a video soon on another local mall in my area called miromar factory outlet mall it opened in 1993 and closed in 2000 it was located in Champlain New York
I will look into and put it on my list. Thanks
@@EricCProductions76 your welcome
Absolutely delighted to find a video on this store, I remember quite fondly my mom taking me to one when I was a child. One of my earliest clear memories of visiting the store at night, and seeing the ‘gold circle’ logo there. I can’t really recall if I got anything from there, but I do recall a bottle of some kind of talcum powder with a Gold Circle price sticker on it that was in our linen closest for DECADES.😅 I wish I could recall the interior, I remember it better when it became a ‘Hills’, and then a ‘Caldor’, though the layouts were changed to fit the different stores themes. This one was at the ‘Greece towne mall ‘ in NY, which later became the ‘Greece ridge mall’. The area the stores occupied eventually became a movie theatre in the mid 90’s after Caldor left, and it’s been that ever since.
thanks for sharing your memories and thanks for watching
I think there was a Woolworths in that area too? We would go there and then eat at the Big Boy on Ridge Rd
I remember going to a Gold Circle in Charlotte NC back in the '80s. It wasn't open for long at all, maybe a couple months. Next thing I knew, it was a Target (that was the first Target I ever saw). I mentioned Gold Circle to my family a couple times over the years, but no one remembers it. This video proves I didn't imagine it!
Awesome, share it with them. Thanks for watching
No one I know remembers either, and they're all older. I didn't know how to read but I remember the name and logo.
@@minhdang423 awesome thanks for watching
@@EricCProductions76 thanks for posting this
How did you find this?
My friend worked there in high school. he became an aeronautical engineer on the space shuttle. the building is now a Marc's grocery store. I got the Star Wars Millennium Falcon and Heroes in Action figures at Gold Circle. the other store names I remember are Clarkins, Woolworth's, Hills, Zayre, K Mart, J&B and Best.
Thanks for sharing your memories
Which request did you got for new videos you have a lot like what¿
Richway, Mad Jacks Stereo, Miromar Factory Outlet Mall, Warner Bros Studio Store, Old Towne Mall, Liberty House, Building 19, Lord and Taylor, Frank's Nursery and Crafts, and Caldor.
Oh my that is alot 📲👍✨
First place I got caught shoplifting.
that can't be good. Thanks for watching
I was a dumb kid, never stole again!!
@@patlarson3416 that's good. Hope you subscribed got more videos coming soon.
$60! $20 even $10, that is gold, living up to their name. We couldn't afford all that.
They had all night special hours?
We had one in Mayfield Ohio.
thanks for sharing your memories