Gamerguy Nerd I know Circuit City is back in business online for me since we don't have a circuit city in CNY right now but hopefully the circuit city opens at Shoppingtown Mall on the former dick's sporting goods, because we and me in CNY don't want our mall to die because I grew up at this mall going there as a kid and created some memorable moments such as the play area, purchasing a Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 for my birthday at the now closed Sprint store (hopefully someone purchase the former sprint) recently, Go! calendar and games moved out of Shoppingtown Mall, and I hope they relocate to destiny USA, they were on the former finish line site which is now up for lease, the cinema remains open thankfully
Your mom rocks! That was so cool! Revco...wow! I haven't heard that in a long time! I think there is still a Things Remembered at the mall by my house. I would love to see more of your mom's collections.
Love this! I definitely remember most of those stores. Hills was the best for toys. My Mom would take me there to look for new Star Wars and He-Man figures almost every weekend. I loved riding the little boat in the lobby that always had stale popcorn spilled all over the floor. Great memories! And A very cool Mom as well.
Your Mom is is so awesome and sweet! I'm glad she kept those bags. I loved Hills. I'm 43, so almost everything I had growing up came from Hills. They also had the best toys. I also miss Phar-Mor. I shopped there a lot in the early '90s. Service Merchandise carried everything, it seems like. In Nashville, Tn, all the Eckerd dugs are now Rite Aid drugstore now. And Hills was bought by Ames, but I didn't like it. I liked Hills better. Sorry for the long commmet. Hope you and your Mom have a great day! Forgot to add that I bought all my music at Camelot.
Thanks Becki! I'm glad she kept them, too! I forgot that Hills was bought by Ames, that's right! We were also wrong about Eckerd being bought by CVS, it was definitely Rite-Aid. Mom and me forget sometimes! Make your comments as long as you want, we don't mind!
Things Remembered is still in business, there's one in the King of Prussia Mall! Woolworth's was my favorite store, every year I would get my back to school supplies there, Trapper Keepers, folders, pencils & lunch boxes! The one in my town even had a soda fountain counter...man those were the days!
Loved it! I really hope this will be a continued series. Man I miss Phar Mor. We had one here in Racine, Wisconsin until 1992 (the year I graduated). Some of my High School homies used to work there, and I spent many hours there shopping and visiting. I miss Suncoast Video too! I picked up many Disney and horror (nice combo hey?) VHS tapes and DVDs there over the years. If I'm not mistaken, Suncoast was purchased by FYE, or they merged or something like that... FYE is still at our local mall (Regency Mall, Racine Wisconsin)but sadly it seems like FYE i slowly dying. I go there often! I'm trying to single handedly keep hope alive! :))
We definitely have plans to make this a series - but the future videos will be much shorter. This was just the "pilot" episode! Suncoast is owned by the same company as FYE, Transworld Entertainment. We have two FYEs left in Pittsburgh.
Something about a bag from a defunct store is just awesome. I remember a few years back me and a friend found a Grand Union (supermarket) bag in the mix of the other plastic bags (mostly Walmart and local chains that are still in business but were the Grand Union's competition when they were still open) and we thought it was the coolest thing ever.
Hey Paul,when I was small I use to shop at a store called- Two guys! That's were I bought all my records.I miss that store! They even had a small bowling alley inside the store.That store I bought my first pack of Bubble Yum gum,it was only 25 cents!😁
A couple people have mentioned that store but we didn't have it around here. I can't believe there was a store with a bowling alley inside, I missed out!
It occurs to me that these bags may be the only extant examples for many of these old stores ever existing at all outside of photographs. I bet there are some employees of these places who would love to see some of them again in this video as a mark they made on the world via customers at the time. A lot of changes to UA-cam have sort of made me migrate to watching more of Weird Paul (even thought I have been subbed for a while) and I am so grateful because THIS is why I am on UA-cam and not watching TV - individual uniqueness that I can relate to. Weird Paul, thank you.
I loved Hill's too. Over here in Steubenville. I played the Tiger-Heli arcade machine, ate giant bags of popcorn and cherry slushes.......cool straws with a spoon on the end. I also bought Print Shop for the Comodore 64 and a 45 of Radio Active by the Romantics. Good memories of that place man!
It's amazing that she still has all those bags. Now pretty much all the bags people have are Wal-Mart bags. It was a different time to shop back then. Pretty awesome your mom has a series with you.
I was hoping to see that Zayre bag!My family loved to shop there!I bought my first tape cassette from there.It was either Bon Jovi or Def Leppard.Before Ames where I live in Ohio it was Gold Circle in the early to mid 80's.Have you heard of that store?I love the 80's!Great channel.
I wish I knew where my pogs went, damn. Another great vid! I've always saved things but you've inspired me to save things I wouldn't even have thought to hold on to thanks a ton!
Remember playworld Paul? Bought a lot of toy figures, video games and cards......it was so messy though, as if the stock clerks would just open up the boxes from the pallet and throw everything on the floor......awesome memories!
Your mom seems so nice! Service Merchandise was where I saw an expensive Inspector Gadget action figure. I finally got it on Ebay more than 25 years later!
Weird Paul = Real Life Peter Pan. It's been a while since I've checked out any of your videos, but binge watched a bunch yesterday and today. Keep it up man, love it!
It's great to see your mom joining in with the videos again. Looking forward to more episodes of Mom and Me! One more thing, Paul...........Do as your mom says and fix that pizza cutter! lol!
one thing I find interesting is we have totally different experiences growing up even though we are around the same age because I grew up in California.
I used to buy a lot of Laser Discs at Camelot. They often had offbeat titles in their cut-out section for $2 or $3. I still often make a pilgrimage to the Monroeville (Dawn Of The Dead) Mall near Pittsburgh. I was also lucky enough to meet and become friends with Karl Hardman from "Night Of The Living Dead" in the 1980s when he was running Hardman and Associates on Carson in downtown Pittsburgh.
Bags of memories! It's truly remarkable what you have collected over the years. You should open a Weird Paul museum :) They say collecting is genetic :D One of those carrier bags looked like a plastic T-shirt.
Wow Kay Bee toy store! I bought so many toys there! I specifically remember getting an all metal u.s.s. enterprise...wonder what happened to that... And Borders book store! in high school I would spend countless hours reading books and magazines there, it was one of my favorites I miss that store a ton. So cool to see your mom in another video, you have a great family Paul! Great video thanks for posting this!
Thanks! That was a great thing about Borders, you could go in and read the books and magazines and no one would throw you out! They even gave you a place to sit!
I remember Suncoast and Kay Bee very well. They used to be in this mall I frequented. I remember buying a lot of DVD's from Suncoast. Honorable mention should also go to the Jamesway department stores, which went out of business in 1994. That was my go-to store for everything from cassette tapes to clothes to toys to everything in between. The year they went out of business, they discounted all their inventory big-time, and I think the last thing I ever bought from them was a cassette copy of Dream Theater's Awake album.
Oh man I loved Service Merchandise, I remember it being right next door to my moms favorite store, Solo Serve! Damn I miss those days sometimes. Great video down memory lane.
Good Ol' Service Merchandise! They had everything there, but I mostly remember the toy section! Anyone remember how popular Cabbage Patch dolls were? my mom called around everywhere looking for them and was told they were getting a shipment at Service Merchandise at such and such time. There were a bunch of women standing around when we got there, finally some guy brought a bunch out on a pallet, and all I remember is my 5 foot tall mom ducking under the taller ladies, arms and elbows as they grabbed for the dolls in giant boxes they came in. She appeared out from under the crowd with two giant Cabbage Patch boxes under each arm, telling us, "I don't know which ones I got, these were all I could grab!" Funny thing is, she grabbed a boy and girl, the girl had blue eyes like my sister, and the boy had green eyes like me. But eventually , I gave the doll to my sister because I felt weird sleeping with and having a doll.lol Suncoast was in the mall in Colorado, I bought the Star Wars Trilogy there, and an Empire Strikes Back script. Sad how malls are dying out and a lot of stores because of the internet and technology. Last mall I went to, all it had were a bunch of cell phone stores. LAME.
Also, do you remember the smell when you would first walk through the doors of Hills and you would go through that area with the food right before you entered the main store? I can remember the smell of buttered popcorn. It was almost like when you first walked into Showbiz Pizza and you got the sounds of arcade games buzzing and binging with the animatronics singing in the eating area and that strong smell of oregano and tomato sauce from the pizzas. I can't remember what the pizzas there tasted like, but I'm guessing they weren't that bad lol.
Paul ur mom was great in the video! Seeing you and ur mom together,reminds me of when me and my mom get together and talk about old stores.Awww you better get ur mom a new pizza cutter Paul. hehehe 🙂
I remember Suncoast very well and was always amazed at their huge selection of DVD's that covered just about every genre imaginable. Did you and mom save any Toys R Us bags before they closed up shop?
I love the Intro! I remember when the bookstore at my town closed. I went through the almost empty store one last time and bought some reclam-books. Do you know reclam-books? Its a German publisher, who publishes important texts at low price.
Thanks, you are the only one who commented on the intro. We'll be using it again and again. I never heard of reclam-books. But it's great to go to stores when they are closing because you get some great deals!
Now I remember lol. D&K was the store I got the desert storm trading cards at. Cases of 36 for a buck and they had litarly hundreds of cases in a bin. Hills was probably my favorite store. My friends got caught shop lifting there. Circuit city's going out of business sale was a joke. TVs were marked $2,000 for half price. It wasn't even a deal. Your mom is cool my dude.
Oh wow, that was D&K! Nice! The last time I think I remember going into a D&K was maybe 2001. I wonder if that's right. Glad that you think my mom is cool!
With all the plastic bag bans going on in various states, especially just recently here in NJ, you may very well have some collector's items on your hands!
@@weirdpaulp Did you guys ever get the Incredible Universe store in PA? They where a huge electronics store with neon light inside them and they always had a McDonalds too with other snack bar type shops. Ours got turned into Frys electronics but then went out of business in 2021.
Love all the stuff you find. I'm trying to find out where you find the storage to put all of your stuff lol. I think if I went on thrift store runs all the time, my house would end up looking like a hoarder's home.
Well here's where I keep a lot of it (it helps to have lots of rooms!), and I'm also currently disposing of lots of worthless/useless stuff from my basement to make room for more important things: ua-cam.com/video/o2YTgXpd9kU/v-deo.html
Hey Paul I did realize that Eckerd was bought by cvs but eventually the company rebranded as Rite Aid and as for the Ames that is close to your house is it still abandoned? or did someone purchase the building?
We used to have a chain of stores called Best here in northeast Ohio. Their claim to fame for me was being the only store to have a couple copies of Mario 3 in stock after I called every store in the area for about a week or so around the time the game came out. I don't think I've ever been so persistant in finding anything in my lifetime and the people taking my calls must've felt weird taking those calls from an 8 year old. Edit: I can't believe i just noticed I accidentally typed 89 instead of 8 for my age at the time lol
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That's so cool that your mom did a video with you.
She's the best! We're going to make some more!
Well, maybe I will visit one again someday!
Gamerguy Nerd I know Circuit City is back in business online for me since we don't have a circuit city in CNY right now but hopefully the circuit city opens at Shoppingtown Mall on the former dick's sporting goods, because we and me in CNY don't want our mall to die because I grew up at this mall going there as a kid and created some memorable moments such as the play area, purchasing a Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 for my birthday at the now closed Sprint store (hopefully someone purchase the former sprint) recently, Go! calendar and games moved out of Shoppingtown Mall, and I hope they relocate to destiny USA, they were on the former finish line site which is now up for lease, the cinema remains open thankfully
I'm gonna say it now. The world needs more Mom and Me videos. This is a great video. I remember going to some of those stores.
Glad you liked it! There's a lot of good ideas for more!
me 2 woolworths in 93 i got my sega there
i liked woolworth in the 90s i got my sega and sonic sold me on it and where i use to get my action figures there as well
i agree these mom and me vids are great thanks for the memories paul
Your mom rocks! That was so cool! Revco...wow! I haven't heard that in a long time! I think there is still a Things Remembered at the mall by my house. I would love to see more of your mom's collections.
Mom has some great stuff to show off. Can't wait to make more videos with her!
Love this! I definitely remember most of those stores. Hills was the best for toys. My Mom would take me there to look for new Star Wars and He-Man figures almost every weekend. I loved riding the little boat in the lobby that always had stale popcorn spilled all over the floor. Great memories! And A very cool Mom as well.
Woolworth was where I went for Garbage Pail Kids.
I have a lot of great memories of shopping there.
Your Mom is is so awesome and sweet! I'm glad she kept those bags. I loved Hills. I'm 43, so almost everything I had growing up came from Hills. They also had the best toys. I also miss Phar-Mor. I shopped there a lot in the early '90s. Service Merchandise carried everything, it seems like. In Nashville, Tn, all the Eckerd dugs are now Rite Aid drugstore now. And Hills was bought by Ames, but I didn't like it. I liked Hills better. Sorry for the long commmet. Hope you and your Mom have a great day! Forgot to add that I bought all my music at Camelot.
Thanks Becki! I'm glad she kept them, too! I forgot that Hills was bought by Ames, that's right! We were also wrong about Eckerd being bought by CVS, it was definitely Rite-Aid. Mom and me forget sometimes! Make your comments as long as you want, we don't mind!
Things Remembered is still in business, there's one in the King of Prussia Mall! Woolworth's was my favorite store, every year I would get my back to school supplies there, Trapper Keepers, folders, pencils & lunch boxes! The one in my town even had a soda fountain counter...man those were the days!
Ah, I had no idea Things Remembered was open, let alone in Pennsylvania! We had that soda fountain at our Woolworth's too - I sure do miss it!
Mom seems so chill all the time
another great video...your mom's awesome
Thanks James!
Loved it! I really hope this will be a continued series. Man I miss Phar Mor. We had one here in Racine, Wisconsin until 1992 (the year I graduated). Some of my High School homies used to work there, and I spent many hours there shopping and visiting. I miss Suncoast Video too! I picked up many Disney and horror (nice combo hey?) VHS tapes and DVDs there over the years. If I'm not mistaken, Suncoast was purchased by FYE, or they merged or something like that... FYE is still at our local mall (Regency Mall, Racine Wisconsin)but sadly it seems like FYE i slowly dying. I go there often! I'm trying to single handedly keep hope alive! :))
We definitely have plans to make this a series - but the future videos will be much shorter. This was just the "pilot" episode! Suncoast is owned by the same company as FYE, Transworld Entertainment. We have two FYEs left in Pittsburgh.
Something about a bag from a defunct store is just awesome. I remember a few years back me and a friend found a Grand Union (supermarket) bag in the mix of the other plastic bags (mostly Walmart and local chains that are still in business but were the Grand Union's competition when they were still open) and we thought it was the coolest thing ever.
That's awesome. I still get excited if the thrift store uses some old bag for my stuff!
Great video Paul, it was cool seeing your mom do a video with you. I'd love to see her showing off more of her collections with you!
Thanks Heather! We already filmed another video and we are planning to do a lot more!
Hey Paul,when I was small I use to shop at a store called- Two guys! That's were I bought all my records.I miss that store! They even had a small bowling alley inside the store.That store I bought my first pack of Bubble Yum gum,it was only 25 cents!😁
A couple people have mentioned that store but we didn't have it around here. I can't believe there was a store with a bowling alley inside, I missed out!
There are multiple things going on in this video. I greatly enjoy and appreciate all of the things
I appreciate your appreciation!
Love your channel. I have been watching since the peanut butter recall video. keep up the good work
Thanks a lot!
your mom is way cool. she hasn't aged she's gotten prettier, I think. great vid! happy mother's day to mrs.petroskry!thanks weird Paul!
Very nice of you to say, Stephanie! Thanks!
It occurs to me that these bags may be the only extant examples for many of these old stores ever existing at all outside of photographs. I bet there are some employees of these places who would love to see some of them again in this video as a mark they made on the world via customers at the time. A lot of changes to UA-cam have sort of made me migrate to watching more of Weird Paul (even thought I have been subbed for a while) and I am so grateful because THIS is why I am on UA-cam and not watching TV - individual uniqueness that I can relate to. Weird Paul, thank you.
Wow. Thank you Leif. That makes me feel both happy and proud of myself.
You're welcome, I truly think this is something really special that you are doing for posterity.
I loved Hill's too. Over here in Steubenville. I played the Tiger-Heli arcade machine, ate giant bags of popcorn and cherry slushes.......cool straws with a spoon on the end. I also bought Print Shop for the Comodore 64 and a 45 of Radio Active by the Romantics. Good memories of that place man!
Print Shop for the Commodore 64 in da house!
I remember shopping at Ames, which closed down, then opened to be Big Wheel, then closed down to become a Sav-A-Lot
I never got to go to a Big Wheel. I feel somewhat incomplete.
It's amazing that she still has all those bags. Now pretty much all the bags people have are Wal-Mart bags. It was a different time to shop back then. Pretty awesome your mom has a series with you.
It's true, it seems like all I see these days are Wal-Mart bags! More mom and me coming up!
I was hoping to see that Zayre bag!My family loved to shop there!I bought my first tape cassette from there.It was either Bon Jovi or Def Leppard.Before Ames where I live in Ohio it was Gold Circle in the early to mid 80's.Have you heard of that store?I love the 80's!Great channel.
Gold Circle? Yeah we definitely shopped there.
I loved this, your mom is so rad!
Thanks Sara! We already filmed another one!
I love this vídeos.
Thank you!
She is the sweetest, cutest thing I have ever seen. More Mrs. Petroskey, please.
Awesome, more coming up!
Great video Paul . I can see where you got your collecting bug from.
Thanks! My mom is the best!
awesome video as always my friend
Thanks Bill!
Nice Video, Paul with your mom shes awesome!
Thanks a lot!
I wish I knew where my pogs went, damn. Another great vid! I've always saved things but you've inspired me to save things I wouldn't even have thought to hold on to thanks a ton!
That's great Matt!
These videos are current for me. Love them
Love this Paul!
Thanks Mike!
Remember playworld Paul? Bought a lot of toy figures, video games and cards......it was so messy though, as if the stock clerks would just open up the boxes from the pallet and throw everything on the floor......awesome memories!
I don't remember that - I don't think we had that in Pittsburgh where I grew up. Was it this: ua-cam.com/video/e3b00NZ3se8/v-deo.html
Your mom seems so nice! Service Merchandise was where I saw an expensive Inspector Gadget action figure. I finally got it on Ebay more than 25 years later!
I'm having fun getting all of those things now that I couldn't get when I was a kid!
I've never been jealous of bags before! There is an old Hess's bag in my mom's attic.
I had a Hess' box in my basement for a really long time...I don't know if I still have it...
What a fun and memorable video, plus it was so cool to meet Mom!
Thanks, glad you liked it!
great video! Thanks for sharing Paul!
Thanks Mark, glad you liked it!
Weird Paul = Real Life Peter Pan. It's been a while since I've checked out any of your videos, but binge watched a bunch yesterday and today. Keep it up man, love it!
love this ..you and your family feel like family to me already I know so much about you all love the wierdness
Glad you can dig it!
I 💜 your family interaction videos! Keep on Keep'n on!
Thanks! As soon as mom gets back from vacation, we'll be making some more!
It's great to see your mom joining in with the videos again. Looking forward to more episodes of Mom and Me! One more thing, Paul...........Do as your mom says and fix that pizza cutter! lol!
She threw it out, I think!
Before or after you tried to fix it? lol!
That Photo Hut bag really was a throw back. I remember not needing to dial the area code just the number. I miss those days.
So long ago...
I love this video. What a wholesome thing.
one thing I find interesting is we have totally different experiences growing up even though we are around the same age because I grew up in California.
Very true! My girlfriend also grew up in California, so our memory sets are very unlike each others!
What a great idea for a video, Paul. Excellent!
Thanks! Going to film some more videos with my mom in the next couple weeks!
We still have a suncoast video in Beaumont, tx. I used to buy anime VHS there in the 90's before it was popular like it is today.
You are very lucky!!
I used to buy a lot of Laser Discs at Camelot. They often had offbeat titles in their cut-out section for $2 or $3. I still often make a pilgrimage to the Monroeville (Dawn Of The Dead) Mall near Pittsburgh. I was also lucky enough to meet and become friends with Karl Hardman from "Night Of The Living Dead" in the 1980s when he was running Hardman and Associates on Carson in downtown Pittsburgh.
hey i'm a weird paul fan and i'm from Beaumont too! Paul, it's cool your mom thought to save those bags, and it's nice to see her in present day.
That cut-out section sounds heavenly! I have been to Monroeville Mall many times.
Thanks Kristen! The best part is, my mom gave her bag collection to me! I already inherited it!
Wow!!!! I never thought about saving bags. Wish I did. So cool especially NRM and hills
Please keep making these. Great stuff.
Thanks Dave! We filmed another one already!
Very fun video! Enjoyed meeting your mom too! She's a trooper! I even remember a few of those stores. Keep those videos coming?
Your now one of my favorite UA-camrs
My mom worked at Ames for years
Wow, thanks Brent!! Ames was a great store!
Bags of memories! It's truly remarkable what you have collected over the years. You should open a Weird Paul museum :) They say collecting is genetic :D One of those carrier bags looked like a plastic T-shirt.
I'd love to open a museum! I did show a T-shirt in this video so maybe that was the one!
This is so cool and sweet! ❤️Give my best regards to your mom, she's awesome! Your buddy Hallgeir from Norway :)
Thanks Hallgeir!
Wow Kay Bee toy store! I bought so many toys there! I specifically remember getting an all metal u.s.s. enterprise...wonder what happened to that...
And Borders book store! in high school I would spend countless hours reading books and magazines there, it was one of my favorites I miss that store a ton.
So cool to see your mom in another video, you have a great family Paul!
Great video thanks for posting this!
Thanks! That was a great thing about Borders, you could go in and read the books and magazines and no one would throw you out! They even gave you a place to sit!
I remember Suncoast and Kay Bee very well. They used to be in this mall I frequented. I remember buying a lot of DVD's from Suncoast. Honorable mention should also go to the Jamesway department stores, which went out of business in 1994. That was my go-to store for everything from cassette tapes to clothes to toys to everything in between. The year they went out of business, they discounted all their inventory big-time, and I think the last thing I ever bought from them was a cassette copy of Dream Theater's Awake album.
This was an incredibly cool video. Thanks, Paul.
Thank you!
Oh man I loved Service Merchandise, I remember it being right next door to my moms favorite store, Solo Serve! Damn I miss those days sometimes. Great video down memory lane.
I haven't heard of Solo Serve, what kind of store was that?
I remember a lot of the stores that you're talking about here.
That's good, we have to keep them alive somehow, even if it's just memories!
Thanks Mom!
:)
Mervyn's, the popular, Mervyn's, and now toys r us..... Add to your collection! Nice!!!
I better make sure I have a good Toys R Us bag to save!
The only store we also have here is Woolworths, but it closed down around 15 years ago. Apparently they're going to make a comeback though.
I had heard that they were still over there, I didn't know they closed!
They were using these bags in the 90's up to their final years I think.
Good Ol' Service Merchandise! They had everything there, but I mostly remember the toy section! Anyone remember how popular Cabbage Patch dolls were? my mom called around everywhere looking for them and was told they were getting a shipment at Service Merchandise at such and such time. There were a bunch of women standing around when we got there, finally some guy brought a bunch out on a pallet, and all I remember is my 5 foot tall mom ducking under the taller ladies, arms and elbows as they grabbed for the dolls in giant boxes they came in. She appeared out from under the crowd with two giant Cabbage Patch boxes under each arm, telling us, "I don't know which ones I got, these were all I could grab!" Funny thing is, she grabbed a boy and girl, the girl had blue eyes like my sister, and the boy had green eyes like me. But eventually , I gave the doll to my sister because I felt weird sleeping with and having a doll.lol
Suncoast was in the mall in Colorado, I bought the Star Wars Trilogy there, and an Empire Strikes Back script.
Sad how malls are dying out and a lot of stores because of the internet and technology. Last mall I went to, all it had were a bunch of cell phone stores. LAME.
I work at a mall, and I know what you mean.
your mom are great. nostalgic to a t. has she been a collector her whole life? i see her passion was brought down to you.
She's been saving stuff ever since I was born. I think it was actually my grandmother (her mother) that taught me to cut things out of the newspaper!
Borders closed here in Dundee a few years ago and I really miss it
Love this!
Thanks! Mom will be glad!
lucky to have a cool mom
Very lucky!
GC Murphey's was in Beaver Falls, it turned into a Rite Aid. Down the street we had a D & K which my grandma called the "five and dime"
I bought a bunch of plastic watches at the D&K: ua-cam.com/video/mHoPpnYJ4hk/v-deo.html
I miss hills. Your mom rocks!
Thanks Justin! I miss it too!
Memories.
So many.
Also, do you remember the smell when you would first walk through the doors of Hills and you would go through that area with the food right before you entered the main store? I can remember the smell of buttered popcorn. It was almost like when you first walked into Showbiz Pizza and you got the sounds of arcade games buzzing and binging with the animatronics singing in the eating area and that strong smell of oregano and tomato sauce from the pizzas. I can't remember what the pizzas there tasted like, but I'm guessing they weren't that bad lol.
That smell was unforgettable once you experienced it.
Awesome!!! Collect defunct stores shopping bags, as well...ESPECIALLY Woolworth’s bags!!! xoxo The Clarences
Gold Circle's logo looks very similar to Colgem Records.
It is!
Awesome video I remember some of those stores.
Lots of memories in those bags!
"So do you want chili?"
Paul ur mom was great in the video! Seeing you and ur mom together,reminds me of when me and my mom get together and talk about old stores.Awww you better get ur mom a new pizza cutter Paul. hehehe 🙂
Thanks Alan! My guess is that my mom had another pizza cutter already set aside for this day!
Nice video I enjoyed watching you two.
Thank you Cheryl, I'm glad you liked it!
I remember Suncoast very well and was always amazed at their huge selection of DVD's that covered just about every genre imaginable. Did you and mom save any Toys R Us bags before they closed up shop?
Great vid! We had a Things Remembered store in our mall(Indiana, PA) until it closed about a year or so ago.
I love the Intro! I remember when the bookstore at my town closed. I went through the almost empty store one last time and bought some reclam-books. Do you know reclam-books? Its a German publisher, who publishes important texts at low price.
Thanks, you are the only one who commented on the intro. We'll be using it again and again. I never heard of reclam-books. But it's great to go to stores when they are closing because you get some great deals!
Papa's got a brand new bag, but mama has all the old ones!
This is a great video! A lot of stores in the bay area have closed and I remember all of them! I sure wished I kept the bags though!
Thanks! My mom is an archivist and she doesn't even know it!
Haha! I used to work at Borders as a stock person! Great video Paul! (Hi Paul's mom ! 👋)
I went to Borders on the last day and bought a ton of manga for almost nothing!
Your Moms awesome!!
I love that the picture quality and frame is like in the eighties. Did you film this with an old camera?
Yes. This was filmed on a Hi8 camera from the 90s. But usually I film it onto VHS tape. This is how I do it: ua-cam.com/video/sv6FUE6eXpU/v-deo.html
Love the Ames Bag
There's a lot of memories in that bag.
Now I remember lol. D&K was the store I got the desert storm trading cards at. Cases of 36 for a buck and they had litarly hundreds of cases in a bin. Hills was probably my favorite store. My friends got caught shop lifting there. Circuit city's going out of business sale was a joke. TVs were marked $2,000 for half price. It wasn't even a deal. Your mom is cool my dude.
Oh wow, that was D&K! Nice! The last time I think I remember going into a D&K was maybe 2001. I wonder if that's right. Glad that you think my mom is cool!
its a shame those stores closed down our main music and movie store in U.K hmv been around here for almost hundred years still going strong
Wow, that's amazing that a store has been in business that long!!
With all the plastic bag bans going on in various states, especially just recently here in NJ, you may very well have some collector's items on your hands!
I'm in Phoenix we had Yellow front and Goldwaters. Miss them all.
Shopping just isn't fun anymore.
@@weirdpaulp Did you guys ever get the Incredible Universe store in PA? They where a huge electronics store with neon light inside them and they always had a McDonalds too with other snack bar type shops. Ours got turned into Frys electronics but then went out of business in 2021.
We still have Woolworths here in Mexico :) at least where I live.
That's pretty cool. I guess we will never have them here again.
I have a bag from a store in Northern Ireland in the 70s just before a bomb wrecked it.
Interesting video.
Wow, now that is cool!
Love all the stuff you find. I'm trying to find out where you find the storage to put all of your stuff lol. I think if I went on thrift store runs all the time, my house would end up looking like a hoarder's home.
Well here's where I keep a lot of it (it helps to have lots of rooms!), and I'm also currently disposing of lots of worthless/useless stuff from my basement to make room for more important things: ua-cam.com/video/o2YTgXpd9kU/v-deo.html
Omg loved National Record Mart at Greengate Mall
I bought a lot of music at NRM.
Hey Paul I did realize that Eckerd was bought by cvs but eventually the company rebranded as Rite Aid and as for the Ames that is close to your house is it still abandoned? or did someone purchase the building?
That Ames is now a Wal Mart.
Awesome idea for a video!
Thanks! Mom's got a lot more stuff to show!
We used to have a chain of stores called Best here in northeast Ohio. Their claim to fame for me was being the only store to have a couple copies of Mario 3 in stock after I called every store in the area for about a week or so around the time the game came out. I don't think I've ever been so persistant in finding anything in my lifetime and the people taking my calls must've felt weird taking those calls from an 8 year old. Edit: I can't believe i just noticed I accidentally typed 89 instead of 8 for my age at the time lol
Good for you!
The 'Oasis' one is nice, it's also the name of my favorite band ;)
I used to work at Eckerd. They merged with Rite Aid and Brooks over a decade ago.
I have some of these bagss.Theywere great places to go
Loved it! Great vid with Mom
Thank you!
your mom!!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Paul, you're a national treasure.
:)