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All right, this is gonna cost ya.....go to a natural foods store. Buy some.......I'll send you a PM so you can get it right....

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Well, jmarkross:............I tried it again and yep I was right.....I found it better to put the Vegetable oil in a small teflon pan, (not much oil)...lay the nuts (peanut or cashew) in there pan and just kinda shake the pan added POPCORN Salt. I then put the nuts out on a paper towel and let them cool down.....then the most important ingredient ...One bottle of Bud Light a my recliner......TG&Y lives again...just like the old days...my wife was sewing upstairs and came down asking what had I been cooking...She then noticed the small bowl of Cashews and I got to cook some more.....

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Well, jmarkross:............I tried it again and yep I was right.....I found it better to put the Vegetable oil in a small teflon pan, (not much oil)...lay the nuts (peanut or cashew) in there pan and just kinda shake the pan added POPCORN Salt. I then put the nuts out on a paper towel and let them cool down.....then the most important ingredient ...One bottle of Bud Light a my recliner......TG&Y lives again...just like the old days...my wife was sewing upstairs and came down asking what had I been cooking...She then noticed the small bowl of Cashews and I got to cook some more.....

Have a daughter, who back in the day was close to being addicted to those cashews. I'll pass this on to her so she can relive a little of her past. Thanks, General! Maybe she can convince her teen-aged boys that this how it should be. Sans the Bud Lite, of course. That's for Mom and G'pa.

Aww...I loved TG&Y. Just scanned the thread but it brings back some great memories.

Thanks everyone for the stories and pics. Wish I had more time to read everything.

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Well, jmarkross:............I tried it again and yep I was right.....I found it better to put the Vegetable oil in a small teflon pan, (not much oil)...lay the nuts (peanut or cashew) in there pan and just kinda shake the pan added POPCORN Salt. I then put the nuts out on a paper towel and let them cool down.....then the most important ingredient ...One bottle of Bud Light a my recliner......TG&Y lives again...just like the old days...my wife was sewing upstairs and came down asking what had I been cooking...She then noticed the small bowl of Cashews and I got to cook some more.....

My thanks to the General...I shall try this soon. If that method simulates the smell of the old Norman TG&Y during "roasting"--I would be more than happy. Remember those Spanish red peanuts they cooked tons of on Saturday as well--but--the cashews came first--to make sure the peanuts got a kick up with some cashew flavor from the first round. Remember, as well, how little boys who were smart got to know the high school girls who worked the candy counter and flirted with them so they would always make sure that big scale needle would EXCEED the paid quantity when you got you nuts/candy. Glad I was alive during these times...

My thanks to the General...I shall try this soon. If that method simulates the smell of the old Norman TG&Y during "roasting"--I would be more than happy. Remember those Spanish red peanuts they cooked tons of on Saturday as well--but--the cashews came first--to make sure the peanuts got a kick up with some cashew flavor from the first round. Remember, as well, how little boys who were smart got to know the high school girls who worked the candy counter and flirted with them so they would always make sure that big scale needle would EXCEED the paid quantity when you got you nuts/candy. Glad I was alive during these times...

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Can't you remember on Saturday morning heading to the theater (Chieftan for me) and you'd get 5 cents worth of Orange Slices, 5 cents marshmallow peanuts...and 10 cents worth of Fresh roasted Peanuts to take to the movie. I would have 50 cents....20 cents to get in, 10'cents for a LARGE COKE...and 20 cents for the TG& Y stash......I would then sell the Orange Slices for a nickle each during the movie ...Marshmallow peanuts 2/5 cents....and a handful of roasted peanuts in your coke for a dime...would watch the movie and then walk home with about 75 cents in my pocket.....a guy's gotta do what a guy's gotta do......

The Spanish peanuts was something that Dad always purchase. As far as cashews, Sears was my favorite. Sorry Gen.

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Can't you remember on Saturday morning heading to the theater (Chieftan for me) and you'd get 5 cents worth of Orange Slices, 5 cents marshmallow peanuts...and 10 cents worth of Fresh roasted Peanuts to take to the movie. I would have 50 cents....20 cents to get in, 10'cents for a LARGE COKE...and 20 cents for the TG& Y stash......I would then sell the Orange Slices for a nickle each during the movie ...Marshmallow peanuts 2/5 cents....and a handful of roasted peanuts in your coke for a dime...would watch the movie and then walk home with about 75 cents in my pocket.....a guy's gotta do what a guy's gotta do......

Your M.O. sounds like mine in the 1950's...and 20-cents was the standard at the University Theater in Norman on Main. Once--I stepped outside of the box--and blew 39-cents on a whole pound box of Brach's chocolate covered cherries and ate the whole box with a big coke during two double feature monster movies...I always sat in the front row with the rest of the hard-core horror kids. Was marvelous...until I got home and after dinner, got sick as a dog and puked my guts up for a while. The next day...I still thought it was worth it all--the cherries lasted for a couple of hours, the upchucking was only maybe 30 minutes. To a kid--seemed like a fair trade.

Gen64 - remember the guy who had been a co-manager at Edmond Plaza (Epperson?) buying a mobile steam-cleaning rig? He did a steam-cleaning job on the kitchen in the HQ cafeteria and set off the sprinkler system. Myself and an army of other people had to clean it up. We were in the process of getting new indoor/outdoor carpet in the cafeteria that day. We would have turned off the sprinklers except someone had chained and locked the valve open. When the firemen responded to the integrated alarm, one of them drove a wooden wedge into the sprinkler opening which at least slowed it down until someone arrived with a key to turn off the water.

Where was TG&Y in Norman located? I'm sure they had a couple stores there.

Where was TG&Y in Norman located? I'm sure they had a couple stores there.

The old original one in Norman was on the NW corner of Main St. and Crawford Ave....in what was--in the olden days--the central business district of Norman.

The old original one in Norman was on the NW corner of Main St. and Crawford Ave....in what was--in the olden days--the central business district of Norman.

Norman was the location of the FIRST TG&Y Store...It was managed by C.A. Henderson (the first corporate store) who went on to be the first President not in the initialed name. There was another store further West on main and then one right across the street where the old hobby lobby was located....all three were definitely "Money makers"......i think there was one also at Campus corner area....

Norman was the location of the FIRST TG&Y Store...It was managed by C.A. Henderson (the first corporate store) who went on to be the first President not in the initialed name. There was another store further West on main and then one right across the street where the old hobby lobby was located....all three were definitely "Money makers"......i think there was one also at Campus corner area....

Yes--that is the one I grew up in...had a big office upstairs that overlooked the whole store...I could go down Peters Street in less than five minutes on my bike to get there--on a good day...bought lotsa BB's there...there was a F. W. Woolworth across the street back in the 1950's...

Yes--that is the one I grew up in...had a big office upstairs that overlooked the whole store...I could go down Peters Street in less than five minutes on my bike to get there--on a good day...bought lotsa BB's there...there was a F. W. Woolworth across the street back in the 1950's...

yes, and somewhere along in there was a Kress store....I remember when we (TG&Y) opened the "big" store on west main....We kept the store you are talking about for a training store for a while but the one across the street from the new location was a bear in moving the merchandise. The Supervisor of the stores was name Vic Forrester and he wanted everything moved across the street. Lucky for me the departments I was working on were essential and they made me quit moving merchandise and finish my area. That was a Great Store...Opened in 1968.....have some real fond memories of that store....

yes, and somewhere along in there was a Kress store....I remember when we (TG&Y) opened the "big" store on west main....We kept the store you are talking about for a training store for a while but the one across the street from the new location was a bear in moving the merchandise. The Supervisor of the stores was name Vic Forrester and he wanted everything moved across the street. Lucky for me the departments I was working on were essential and they made me quit moving merchandise and finish my area. That was a Great Store...Opened in 1968.....have some real fond memories of that store....

Did you ever know a man named Larry Gardner who worked for TG&Y corporate? They new one on Main was the TG&Y Family Center--was it not?

Norman was the location of the FIRST TG&Y Store...It was managed by C.A. Henderson (the first corporate store) who went on to be the first President not in the initialed name. There was another store further West on main and then one right across the street where the old hobby lobby was located....all three were definitely "Money makers"......i think there was one also at Campus corner area....

did they sell many of the "monkeys" they made?

There was another TG&Y on Campus Corner...between Peyton-Marcus and the Boomer Theater on the east side of Asp just north of Boyd. Rather like the older one on Main Street. It did have ceiling fans above the entrances though, I think.

Your M.O. sounds like mine in the 1950's...and 20-cents was the standard at the University Theater in Norman on Main. Once--I stepped outside of the box--and blew 39-cents on a whole pound box of Brach's chocolate covered cherries and ate the whole box with a big coke during two double feature monster movies...I always sat in the front row with the rest of the hard-core horror kids. Was marvelous...until I got home and after dinner, got sick as a dog and puked my guts up for a while. The next day...I still thought it was worth it all--the cherries lasted for a couple of hours, the upchucking was only maybe 30 minutes. To a kid--seemed like a fair trade.

Mark, a similar thing happened to me. My dad owned Buck's Drug Store where Coach's is on Main Street in '47 and '48 and it was real easy for me to "swipe" candy. Still to this day when I even think of chocklate covered cherries I start to feel it all coming back up. Same thing happened with Cherry Mashes. Barf.

Mark, a similar thing happened to me. My dad owned Buck's Drug Store where Coach's is on Main Street in '47 and '48 and it was real easy for me to "swipe" candy. Still to this day when I even think of chocklate covered cherries I start to feel it all coming back up. Same thing happened with Cherry Mashes. Barf.

I have foundered on Cherry Mashes as well...the outer coating is nice...the red sugar fondant inside is enough to kill a diabetic (which I am now!) and send any kid to the porcelain bowl to call "Ralph"! But--in the olden days--kids did not get candy and cokes all the time--so it was a bit more of a treat than in today's world. Remember, as a kid, you ALWAYS knew which pop machines around town had the bottles that would freeze up just after opening--and what a treat that was on a 100-degree summer day...the predecessor of the Slurpee...

Buck's must have been right next door to Denco's...

Wasn't there also a TG&Y in tri cities center. I believe it was converted into a Wal-Mart.

An interesting note on TG&Y...in 1973, I moved to Torrance CA and lived on Anza Ave. near Torrance Blvd. in the South Bay...and right down the street was a...TG&Y! I was shocked! Later...I found an Across the Street Restaurant that was identical to the one in Norman--owned by the same guy--whose daughter I went to high school with (I forget their last name)...used to get a Charburger with Sooner Sauce in the San Fernando Valley!

Wasn't there also a TG&Y in tri cities center. I believe it was converted into a Wal-Mart.

yes to the tri-center store....was not a real good family center. Logistics is everything for a store like that...

For those who might remember her, Ada Mae Forbes was buried last week. She first worked at the #37 store on N Western then worked for many years as Hue Weirsig's administrative assistant. Ada Mae was a great person. I knew her all my life and never once heard her say a cross word to anyone or about anyone, all the while being efficient and effective. She also had a great sense of humor. She would show up at Church Halloween parties (yes we used to have fun, even at Church, before someone decided Halloween was a day dedicated to the devil) with a costume that covered her completely, never saying a word. Everyone "knew" who it was, but she would make us wonder right up until the end of the party when she would take off her mask. A great lady who will be missed very much.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but Bill Seaton, one of the good guys at TG&Y - a store manager - passed away 2-11-2011. He was a good friend. His daughter, Debbie, worked for me in the corporate mailroom and my daughter, April, worked for him at Hobby Lobby in Edmond. He was working in the Hobby Lobby corporate office when he passed away. We will miss him.

Wow, lots of memories posted. My only memory of TG&Y was the store located at SE 44th and Bryant Ave (SE OKC). I remember mom and dad would hit that place up (as well as Otasco, which was located in the same strip mall). Sadly, the surrounding area was going downhill. One morning, I remember mom taking us to the daycare early and a cop flew past us and ended up in front of that TG&Y store. I assume, due to sluggish sales and crime, that store closed way before the rest of the other stores (even before they changed their name).

Fast forward 27-28 years later, I had a professor at Rose State who used to be the CFO? (I think he was way up there on the food chain) for TG&Y. He shared a lot of stories with us too. Forgot his first name, but his lat name was Kauer??? Really nice guy.

Dan

I spent many years with TG&Y and also, David Green (owner of Hobby Lobby) was an old TG&Y Guy.

Did you know a Bill McCray?

He was the buyer for Stationary (early 70s), then Hosiery (till about 79) and then Toys until they closed.

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm Denco Darlin!!!!! Miss that place and the outhouse

I have foundered on Cherry Mashes as well...the outer coating is nice...the red sugar fondant inside is enough to kill a diabetic (which I am now!) and send any kid to the porcelain bowl to call "Ralph"! But--in the olden days--kids did not get candy and cokes all the time--so it was a bit more of a treat than in today's world. Remember, as a kid, you ALWAYS knew which pop machines around town had the bottles that would freeze up just after opening--and what a treat that was on a 100-degree summer day...the predecessor of the Slurpee...

Buck's must have been right next door to Denco's...

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm Denco Darlin!!!!! Miss that place and the outhouse

The Enchilada Darling...served with an 8-pound 50-ounce, giant plastic tumbler of sweet tea...after a night of indiscriminate drinking...within 8 hours--every bodily system you had was taken to it's extreme...but--it did taste mighty good on the way down. And the waitresses were pros there...

Wow, lots of memories posted. My only memory of TG&Y was the store located at SE 44th and Bryant Ave (SE OKC). I remember mom and dad would hit that place up (as well as Otasco, which was located in the same strip mall). Sadly, the surrounding area was going downhill. One morning, I remember mom taking us to the daycare early and a cop flew past us and ended up in front of that TG&Y store. I assume, due to sluggish sales and crime, that store closed way before the rest of the other stores (even before they changed their name).

Fast forward 27-28 years later, I had a professor at Rose State who used to be the CFO? (I think he was way up there on the food chain) for TG&Y. He shared a lot of stories with us too. Forgot his first name, but his lat name was Kauer??? Really nice guy.

Dan

Yes, Les Kauer! I just saw him last month at a TG&Y reunion. Les was the Training and Development Director at TG&Y and a really great guy. He still teaches classes at Rose State and Southern Nazarene University.

I wish I had a dollar for every time my husband or I have said, "If only we could go to a TG&Y, we could find it there!"

Found this 1969 ad for the massive TG&Y on the southeast corner of SW 74th & Penn:


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And here are a couple of photos I found on the web of a toy department in Shreveport from the early 1960's (research reveals that the Chatty Cathy doll was marketed between 1960-65):

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Ha! Had forgotten about their auto centers even though I was known to buy tires there. Never knew one like those featured here; my biggest one was at May & Britton (I think). Anyway, TG&Y was the place I spent the most money in those days! Specifically, my earliest Christmas shopping experiences. Ah, the things kids buy for others ...

Found this on Google:

John F. Kroutil (President of the Yukon Electric Company, Yukon
National Bank, and the Yukon Mill and Grain Co.) founded the Progress
Beer Company (not to be confused with the beer of the same name
produced by the Indianapolis Brewery in Indiana) in Oklahoma City in
1934 with his business partner G.F. Streich in 1934. It is said that
in those days Progress Brewing Co., Inc., a microbrewery operating
under Oklahoma State Cereal Beer U-Permit # OK-U-923 (a U-Permit was a
brewery license permit issued from 1933-1939) was one of only two
breweries in Oklahoma, the other supposedly being Old King Brewery ?
but I found no evidence of this, so it may very well have been the
only one.

Not much significant is known about the brewery in the ensuing years
but according to this rather ridiculous lawsuit Progress Brewing
Company was owned by J. S. Bryan & Son by 1950.

PROGRESS BREWING CO. v. THOMPSON
OSCN Found Document:PROGRESS BREWING CO. v. THOMPSON (http://www.oscn.net/applications/ocisweb/DeliverDocument.asp?citeID=57976)

For many years it seems the Progress Brewing Company operated at 501
North Douglas Avenue, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. After some brewery laws
began to make things difficult for Progress, Lone Star Brewing Company
of Texas eventually bought out the company. In time Lone Star is said
to have created problems of its own, allegedly getting into trouble
with the Oklahoma City government over its waste polices resulting it
is getting virtually run out of the state.
:Smiley051

Interesting story about why Lone Star quit business in OKC. I know Progress shut down because Mr. Elmer Streich, who ran the brewery was feeling ill and couldn't keep up with it anymore. This is according to his daughter M.D. Streich. G.F. Streich and J.F. Kroutil founded the brewery and J.F. was President. Elmer Streich was sort of the plant manager though and a Mark Dykema was secretary/treasurer. I had a story about the Kroutils, including Progress Beer, in the Yukon Review a few weeks ago when YNB celebrated 100 years. If anyone ever runs on any more info on Progress or Lone Star in OKC, please let me know.

A T.G.&Y. thread... heh, what a memory.

Well, I was an Edmond kid. So here's what an average (I guess) boring, fun, whatever summer day was like:

Go down to the corner Tastee Freez (near 15th & Blvd) and get a chili dog. Then cross the street (Boulevard), which was a dicey proposition even then (early 70's). Cross the parking lot and up the steps next to the Edmond Theater (whatever it was called). Then to the left -- well, there were several business there -- I even remember going into the old Edmond public library there (really small) before the current one was built (around 1972, I think). Then C.R. Anthony's at the end (where you could get all the bell-bottom jeans you desired). Then up the walkway a bit, past the barber shop (which I think is still there!) and then over into the T.G.&Y.

Ah, the hours wasted there, just looking around at everything, and nothing in particular. Although I mainly remember looking thru the album covers. So many albums on display, all with wonderful, weird, interesting covers. To this day, seeing certain album covers from that era can really trigger a memory.

On the way back, pick up a hershey's chocolate bar with almonds for about 5 cents (as I recall) from the corner 7-Eleven -- which is still there. Or maybe a big pickle instead, from one of those in the big glass jars. Then crunch on the pickle as I made my way back home.

Ah yes, A seemingly endless summer day as a kid.

I grew up in the area just off of NW 63rd between MacArthur and Meridian. We had to either walk or ride our
bikes to get to any store as they weren't particularly close. In the early 70's I can remember riding to the TG&Y store on 63rd, just east of Meridian. A fair-sized store. It was there we bought our Wrist Rocket slingshots( which I have to this day, albeit with new surgical tubing bands ). It was then back on the bikes to go up to Lake Hefner, either to the lake shore on the south side or up to the boat docks; anyplace we could find "ammo"( ie rocks ) for our sling shots.

If we had any money we might have a hamburger at the bait shop there just off of NW Expressway as you entered the lake/golf course area. Or, if we only had 25 cents or so, we could go get a pop at the ranger station there at the lake.

Later on, as we got more sophisticated weaponry, we would take our Benjamin( I still have mine! The "squirrel killer" ) or Sheridan pellet guns up to the lake. Good times and no one called out the national guard if they saw a kid on a bike with a pellet gun!

Found this 1969 ad for the massive TG&Y on the southeast corner of SW 74th & Penn:


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I dont remember that TG&Y being that big!....I worked at the Jims IGA as a stocker back in the day when I was in high school and it was in the same shopping center.

I dont remember that TG&Y being that big!....I worked at the Jims IGA as a stocker back in the day when I was in high school and it was in the same shopping center.'
Do you remember a guy named Jerry? He was my dad and worked at Jim's IGA in the produce department for many years. He was the one that made the signs with those big magic markers as well. I have lots of pictures he took and saved of that place and of his work he did.
Also, that TG&Y was big. Took up the whole stretch of the building to the east of Jim's IGA.

I worked at TG&Y Automotive in the seperate building in the parking lot there as well some time after Jim's went away.

I dont remember that TG&Y being that big!....I worked at the Jims IGA as a stocker back in the day when I was in high school and it was in the same shopping center.

I believe that store at I-240 and S. Penn was the biggest of them all.

I believe that store at I-240 and S. Penn was the biggest of them all.

Absolutely true. That TG&Y sold pharmaceuticals, records, TV's, household supplies, toys, small furniture, RV's (for a time), garden supplies, automotive supplies, fabrics, cameras, film, school supplies (THAT was a rite of passage each school year, for sure). It was Wal Mart waaaay before Walmart was, well, Walmart. TG&Y was also why KMart and WalMart didn't come into OK until TG&Y screwed itself into the ground with its suicidal "upscale" plans that, quite literally, ran itself out of business. For some insane reason, some newer leadership at TG&Y decided they needed to compete with John A. Brown's (which, for the younger folks among us, was a very nice, locally owned, upscale department store). I remember *reading* that story in the paper, and even then thinking "they're nuts," right down to the time they opened their first "AIM for the Best" store that crashed and burned months, if not weeks, after it opened. I'm sure the folks that tried it had their reasons, but from the outside looking in it was one of the more notorious "you can see that coming down the street" business blunders in Oklahoma...

Really sad. TG&Y, in its heyday, rocked.

I worked at T G & Y family center in Bartlesville as a teenager. They changed the name to "AIM" at some point. The brand colors were Brown and Orange. I worked in the Men's Department and spent hours folding blue jeans, Ocean Pacific t-shirts and sniffing Polo and Canoe aftershave. I always thought they put me in the men's department b/c I wasn't cute enough for the women's department. Now, 25 years later, I realize it was just the opposite. haha! Oh, if we only knew *then* what we know *now* :o

Also, I think there was a T G & Y at Shepherd Mall, and maybe one in Bethany across from SNU. They sold bras in bins. Strange the things that make an impression on you as a kid. Great thread!

I used to go to the TG&Y store on 36th & N. Western (next to Bruno's) as a kid. They seem to have anything that you would ever need. There is a store in Banson called Dick's five & Dime that is almost identical to my old TG&Y. it is like being in a time warp.

Dime stores really faded away but I've always thought Walgreens/CVS have become the modern incarnation of having some of almost everything in a similar sized store as the large majority of old TG&Y's.

Dime stores really faded away but I've always thought Walgreens/CVS have become the modern incarnation of having some of almost everything in a similar sized store as the large majority of old TG&Y's.

I never really thought about it that way Pete but I guess that you are right. Walgreens and CVS are the modern day versions of TG&Y. I guess some day my kids will be having these discussions regarding their memories of CVS and Walgreens after thay have been replaced by something else and I am long gone.

Dime stores really faded away but I've always thought Walgreens/CVS have become the modern incarnation of having some of almost everything in a similar sized store as the large majority of old TG&Y's.

This +++!! I've told my mom several times how much Walgreens reminds me of the small TG&Y stores from back in the day. Lots of fun memories of TG&Y...when I was growing up, it was a fairly routine thing to go to TG&Y with mom to pick up household odds and ends, and that usually meant a trip through the toy department for me. And they had what I have to believe was the most tremendous selection of model kit cars (Revell, Testors, etc) of just about any retailer of the era. :)

This +++!! I've told my mom several times how much Walgreens reminds me of the small TG&Y stores from back in the day. Lots of fun memories of TG&Y...when I was growing up, it was a fairly routine thing to go to TG&Y with mom to pick up household odds and ends, and that usually meant a trip through the toy department for me. And they had what I have to believe was the most tremendous selection of model kit cars (Revell, Testors, etc) of just about any retailer of the era. :)

Yes, You are right. I bought a lot of modelk cars there and they had a great selection. As i got older i mover from buying model cars to record albums.

Yes, You are right. I bought a lot of modelk cars there and they had a great selection. As i got older i mover from buying model cars to record albums.

And TG&Y had 'em, too!

Never got into actually building too many model cars, but I loved to look at them. Did build a few Star Trek "Enterprise" models, though. My mom was just way too skittish about the safety of even the non-toxic Testors model cement. Used it a few times and it took forever to set up, had a nasty strong fake lemon scent, and it never held things together very well...so it just never really became much of a hobby.

Also, I think there was a T G & Y at Shepherd Mall. Great thread!Definitely yes. It was on the east end, next door to Stone's IGA, and opened onto the mall and also to the front parking lot. It was one of the larger stores, although of course nothing at all approaching the one at SW 74 and Penn...

Shepherd Mall had a fine TG&Y complete with great candy counter. In the 1980's, it became McCrory's and, quite frankly, it sucked.

McCrory's killed TG& Y. It almost hurts to think of what TG&Y was turning to and was so ineptly run by McCrory's and then look at what Wal Mart became. I've read in the past that the death of TG&Y created the success of Wal Mart.

Oh the memories....TG&Y in Shepherd Mall next to Stones IGA, the first and last time I ever shop lifted. I was probably 5 or 6 hanging out with my mom and older sister of 10 years, when I wondered off to another aisle, felt compelled to open up a package of Pez candy, ate some, then stuffed the plastic wrapper down in the tube of paper towels when the hand of what I recall felt like that of God, came down on my shoulder! It was the store manager who asked me where my parents were. After that, all I remember was being drug out of the store horizontally while my mom said wait until we get home and tell your father while my sister was saying don't kill him mom but also ticked we were not going to stay in line and purchase whatever it was went there to get! Fond memories as if it happened yesterday..........I think somewhere in the attack are still old Xmas items I took from my folks that still have the TG&Y gold price sticker on them.

Oh the memories....TG&Y in Shepherd Mall next to Stones IGA, the first and last time I ever shop lifted. I was probably 5 or 6 hanging out with my mom and older sister of 10 years, when I wondered off to another aisle, felt compelled to open up a package of Pez candy, ate some, then stuffed the plastic wrapper down in the tube of paper towels when the hand of what I recall felt like that of God, came down on my shoulder! It was the store manager who asked me where my parents were. After that, all I remember was being drug out of the store horizontally while my mom said wait until we get home and tell your father while my sister was saying don't kill him mom but also ticked we were not going to stay in line and purchase whatever it was went there to get! Fond memories as if it happened yesterday..........I think somewhere in the attack are still old Xmas items I took from my folks that still have the TG&Y gold price sticker on them.

Geez.....I hate it when I don't proof read......I think I "wandered" off and I meant Xmas things in the "attic" and not the attack.

Enjoyed your shoplifting recollection. My first and only time was at a department store in downtown OKC, 1950's. I took a single mitten, placed into my coat pocket. Before we got home I had been scared sh!tless that the police were gonna get me. Mom later discovered it, and acted like I knew nothing. Whew!

BTW I had forgotten about Stones IGA.

TG&Y was my first job. I was seventeen when I started there. I spent 14 years working for the company. I survived the McCrory buyout and worked my way up the ladder to a store manager position. I spent 31 years in retail and owe it all to my first job at TG&Y.
I really enjoyed working there. That was back in the good ole days when you enjoyed going to work. Great memeories!

Currently, I am in Japan. My son plays baseball sometimes with other kids a a nearby park. He uses my baseball glove that I used when I was a boy. That glove is a Rawlings Reggie Jackson autogragh edition. Still in good shape after 30 years. I remember going with my dad and buying that glove at TG&Y at the corner of Midwest Blvd and S.E. 15th street.

That's funny about the baseball glove... It reminded me of buying my Rawlings glove there as well. Served me well for years of little league.

When I was a kid in the 60's and 70's, it seemed TG&Y had absolutely everything you could want: sporting goods, toys, records, candy, etc.

I remember being there during the opening of that store. Later a family friend worked there. Opal Calton.

At one time there were 2 TG&Y stores in Shepherd Mall. Large one on east end that had a snack bar and was much larger. There was a smaller one on the north wing. Never figured out why they had two there.

I remember this store. West Park is no longer. It is in the process of being torn down. Family Dollar and a trophy shop were the last 2 tenants. When we moved to this area in 1984, it was completely full. Movie theater,Hallmark store, FAA Credit Union branch etc.

March 1968 I'm guessing.

The original spot of the Watonga #14 store in downtown area still has the mosaic tile front. It later became a Bill's store. Last time I was in side that space the two tone floor tile was still there.