Calls On The Best Old School Stores

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3:08like, that was my cassette era. Like, I was a cassette guy. It was before, like, CDs became big. I was out there looking for the latest offerings, the latest hair battle cassettes for 899 or whatever, whatever they were charging back in the day. Bring back the Waxi Maxi. All right. Let's rip through these calls. 1-800-636-6267. I have to say, on Valdeez's behalf, he wants to bring back the Husky section. And give the reason why, Valdeez. I like you. No, I think, I think kids have gotten so fat nowadays and adults that there needs to be some sort of shaming. Shaming was always walking around the Husky section. Sure. To go get size 40 bugle boys. Or extra large tough skins. Back at seniors, back at the day. I don't remember the Husky side. I was a skinny kid. I was super skinny. I'm a bragging. I'm just, I just don't remember the Husky section. Yeah. You didn't have to go to the Husky section. You didn't have to go through that trauma. Yeah. Yeah. I was wearing $9 shoes. Sure. Yeah. I'll never forget my brother's face when my mom suggested to go

4:11to the Husky section when he was like 12 or 13. Did you still have that kind of like that baby fat? You're not really. And it's 12 or 13. And did you have the self esteem already? Yeah, yeah. That's not good. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's cool. Because you'll get Joan going. Yes. You know, they say, were you wearing Husky jeans today? Something like that. I mean, Husky was a very bad word back then. Husky's not not a great connotation to it. All right. Let's go to, let me see here. Let's go to Brian. Brian, what's up, buddy? Don't be the joke. Morning. Morning, Jen. She got to be old enough to remember though, but service merchant base. I kind of remember the name. I don't remember much about. Was that more of like, I feel like that was like a male thing. A male or no? Well, it was like a department store, but it had the conveyor belt when you got stuff. Yeah. That's the best. Yeah. Okay. Where was there one in sort of this area? The last one I remember is just south of Alexandria on Richmond Highway. Okay. That's just not an area we frequented when we were younger.

5:11We're PG County boys. Yeah, PG County boys. All right. Thank you, Brian. Appreciate it. Let's go to Butch. Butch. What's up, man? Butch and Mooie. Hey, what's up? E.B. What's up, Kate? What's up, man? What's up, buddy? What's up, guys? Do you guys remember up against the wall? I don't know if I ever shopped that one. I do know the name. I think we were older when that kind of was popularized. Okay. So we were a little out of the demo maybe when that. I was in a close place. Yes. I think so. I think we were a little older and it was for a younger demo. We had already passed. Yeah, I've got another one that just popped into my brain. What? How old are you butch? I remember. I am. I'm 53. Oh, okay. What would you get there? I would get, if you guys remember, use James and A.J.s. See, I think it was a little more urban place. Definitely urban. Little more urban. Believe it was owned by a white guy. I remember reading all about it. It was. It was. It was. And that's what's funny about it.

6:11And it was right in the hood. Right. Right. Right. Right. And then lastly, I got one for you two takes Golden Dome at Green Dome. Oh. Green Dome. Of course. Of course. One of the very few. Thank you for the call. One of the very few times I had the go nads to skip school. Skip school. Yeah. I remember hopping in a car with somebody and driving to the Golden Dome and putting a Fiverr in the machine that would change it into tokens. Right. Not quarters. Fricking tokens. Yeah. Yard game games. And I skipped out on like eight the ninth period and made it back for the take the bus home. And it was one of the greatest days of my life. Never had busted. Didn't get busted. That's great. It was great. It was fantastic. It's going to Josh. Chesapeake Beach. Josh. What's up, man? You're all with the jucks. 49. Forestville Mall. Mary go around. I was in fifth grade and I bought a pair of skids. Do you guys remember skids? I tell you. I remember Mary go around.

7:11It's not. It's not a store that I frequented. Um, and I don't remember skids. Remind us. Yeah. Skids were that it 1989 hammer came out with you can't touch this and you had the parachute pants. Yes. And skids were the like they were the parachute pants, but they're all in plan. I was four and a half feet tall. I had these pants hiked up to my neck in fifth grade walking out to the bus stop. I had in two legs and I said, this is ridiculous. I'm not doing that. My mom and I return them the very next week. Absolutely ludicrous. Right. Right. I don't think I was stylish enough even back then for something like that. I think I did have a pair of parachute pants that I recall wearing to the Croft and roller skating rink like way back in the day, but I can't remember when like probably 15 years old. 14. I didn't frequent the Forestville Mall. I don't know if Mary go around. Yeah. It's a popular chain. Nope. All right. Let's go to.

8:11It doesn't say it just says mobile from Towson. Hey. What's up, buddy? Hey. Good morning, Jack. Hi, y'all. It's up. You're great. All right. I got two of them for you. Before Costco and DJs used to be a place called Jim. We used to go and be able to buy bulk stuff. How would you pronounce it? How do you spell it? It was spelled J-Y-M-S. Never heard of it. My father used to go there a long time ago. Wait. Now is this in the Baltimore area? No. I live in that area. I actually live in the DJ area. You thought I was bulking a number. Do you remember your phone's terrible sticks? I used to. Your phone's terrible sticks. Your phone's terrible. We talked about it before, though. But when we were coming up and, you know, we're PG County Boys, there was a place called Macro. So I'm called it Macro. But it was Macro. And it was like a precursor to Costco. You could go there. And I remember because I was 15 years old collecting cars. You could go there and buy a case of baseball cars. Right. Or you could go there and you could buy.

9:11I don't know. I think it was over there, kind of near where Northwest Stadium is now. It was like in that area. Back in that warehouse district. Yeah. I don't know how the hell we knew about it. I don't know. You know what? I think you could see the logo on the building from $4.95. Probably could have. I think you could. Let's go to. Let me see here. Let's go to Joe and Aldi. Joe, what's up? Hey, guys. Yeah. The high fidelity store over in Pharaoh's Mall. All right. We had those really high-end speakers. Right. Like $2,000 stereos back in the mid 80s. Yeah. Sure. EBS all over that. I love that stuff. We used to have a place like that in Kensington. So I've lived in Kensington a long time. What do you know about? Do you remember tweeter? Of course. Of course. You used to be. Of course. Like if you went to tweeter, you were buying like the you were buying the best like stereo. You could get your hand. I remember having a 19. That tweeter, nine, like Nissan Maxima, you know.

10:12RIP the Maxima. I ran into some old people. But I would take it to Best Buy or Circuit City or whatever it was. And it would go in there. I didn't even know what I was doing. I was getting big amps. I was getting all the stuff put in there. Extra speakers or whatever just so I could have. What I thought was a boom and subscribe. And I had it all under my seat. Sure. And the amp, the replacement CD thing in the thing. And then, you know, some of my friends had those big bass things in their in their troll. Like a big subwoofer. I never had that. I never went to that extent. I was trying to remember like during the acid wash jeans era, which is probably when we're 18 to 23 somewhere in that range, right? Yeah. Yeah. Where was I getting those jeans? Was I just going to the gap? Old Davey. Caldor. No, I think maybe I'm telling you, Jay Riggins was big in my life for a while. And now it was small. Could have been. We were more of jeans. I don't know where I would get my.

11:13I'm telling you I didn't. I mean, I might have had like two pair of jeans. I only had a lot of jeans. This is more. This is more of a practical store. Yeah. But party city. They're. That's like this though, right? They're going by the wayside. Yeah. You don't find. Yeah. That's a lot. But for birthday parties type of thing. Yeah. It's not just Halloween Halloween. Halloween. Now, now you have like the Halloween superstores that pop up, but you should go to party city all the time for Halloween needs, but you could get anything from party city. If you had a St. Patrick's Day party today, you would go to party city. Go get a big Shamrock that you put on your door. Yeah. We never did that. We put, I mean, my mom put together the nubbies parties. I mean, we'd have a decoration. I mean, nothing. Streamers of party hats. No. Costume party. Is that everything? No. We did it. My mom might make it. She would make a cake. And we'd have some nub soda from giant. You need a pignata. Go to party city. Yeah. I can get my party shoes out. We never had a pignata. What is that? That's our friend LTC's dad.

12:14I can get my party shoes out. You know me, R E P. Yeah. Let's go to. Let's go to Chris. Chris. What's up, man? Go over the junk. Hey, man. I'm sure you've been working in the news for years. We can, uh, uh, uh, Uh, Uh, ürt. What's he called? The journalist, or just a said gene you're talented. You're a George Aces. I don't recall. I remember George Aces. I thought George Aces was from çiqs. I think it was mainly from a. Yeah. Seven feet, seven feet in time. It's now. You just called it. Journal of the store. Really? Yeah. I don't know. I thought it was more like a hillbilly store. What about guest? being big for, to me, that was chicks, but guys wore guest jeans too, right? Tommy Horsey. Tommy had guest jeans in a Tommy Hilfiger jacket. So much Tommy. Tommy Horsey. Guilty. I never, I never had, I think, yes, I don't think I ever had guest jeans.

13:15I had a few guest teachers. I think when my brother, my youngest brother was coming up, he might have had some. Sure. But he had much nicer shoes. I had $9 shoes literally from Kmart. He had, this is dating him, but you know, he's, whatever, he's born in 77 and I was born in 77. He had like the new David Robertsons when they came out. Sure. Sure. I don't know if you remember those shoes, but I can't, real shoes. Yeah. Where were, where were, I grew up getting the winner twos were the shoes that I was getting. Was that also serious? I got sears probably. Yeah. Yeah. My mom was a sears shopper. There was a sears mark. Mine was more of a hex. J.C. Penny though. Well, these here's the thing. People like, people like JP, they, they would have the eyes out, like the LaCost. Oh, yeah. We had the Fox. J.C. Penny products. Well, J.C. Penny or Montgomery Ward. Yeah. We had the Fox. Didn't they also have a fake polo thing, too, where it had some dude on riding a horse? It was like, chaps. No. No. Chaps was like a polo. Yeah. That's an awesome.

14:15Yeah. But this nights are the round table or something like that. I thought it was like, it was called Beverly Hills or something like that. I never had that. Yeah. It was the fake me out polo. We're at a guy riding a horse, but it was like, cock-eyed. It looked different. Yeah. Can I say a guy's name just because it's funny. Please. It's just because it's funny. Sure. I went to middle and he's a nice guy. I was so envious of him. His name was Arthur Sederquist. Okay. I know the same. Okay. And he had LaCost. And I was just the big baller. Yeah. That was the college. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I walked around. I was sheepishly walk around with my red, shocker red, red, fox, whatever. Which is just, I mean, as long as it gets. I need to see your guy's middle school picture. Toyota builds vehicles that don't just keep up. They lead the pack on the road, in your routine, and most of all within your budget. Take the Camry and Corolla to stylish and dependable cars, both with the latest tech and driver-friendly

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17:23That's all you could do. That's okay. I would give my kingdom today for my old Yvonne Lendel, our guy, all Adidas button up tenet shirt from back in the day. Just to wear that all the time, probably wore those threads. Yeah, you had the nicer stuff than me. I had like a Jimmy I had one that I would wear all the time. I would have worn it. My mom got me a Jimmy Conner's shirt. I keep you every minute heard of a Jimmy Conner's brand. I had a Jimmy Conner shirt. He was a stod back in the day. I'll never forget it was white with green trim. It was tight too. Showed off my skinny guns. Let's go to Mike in La Planda. Mike, what's up? Yo, what up, John? Y'all crazy, man. What's up, Mike? Yo, buddy. I got three quicks for your aims, theirs, and GC Murphy, PG Murphy. I know the first two. I'm not, I'm not familiar with GC Murphy. Serum PG Plaza. Again, I didn't frequent PG Plaza. I went to when I was at the math, because it was nearby. What was the GC Murphy's? What was their product lies at fashion? What are we talking about?

18:23No, it was like a little bit everything. Like you get medicine, you can get nicknacks, you can get all kind of crap. It was just like the Ollie's barbecue basement. Like back to the day. Just like that. Easy, you like that. What was it? What were the first two, Mike? Ames, and theirs. Ames, and theirs. Oh yeah, definitely remember those. I think we had his theirs in Bowie for a moment, for a minute. We might have had one. Oh, no. Bradley, no, Bradley. Oh, Bradley, yeah. Bradley, big in my house. Sleep on people, still. People. Not people, still. People. We used to buy a lot of clothes at people. Oh, no. No, I mean, I was wearing a lot of clothesy. Yeah, I was wearing a lot of clothesy. So who had the nine, who had the nine dollars used? Me, Ebay. Ebay, Ebizel. K-Mart. You got those from Save Us? No, a K-Mart, honestly. There was a crack. It was a name of the brand name of the crack. It was like a Thomas Tom. It was a Thomas. If you were Tom McCann, you took Tom McCann. Tom McCann, yeah. But I'm not rich. I'm telling you, I wasn't rich. I wasn't at league. All right, we come back.

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