T.G.&Y. Stores:Gone but not forgotten

[Generals64]

Hey, Gen 64, are you talking about Bunny Martin? I know he was the Yoyo champion at some point in time. In about 1960 he was the youth director at out church. He came home with us for Sunday dinner one time and he did magic tricks right in front of our faces that I always thought had to be done at a distance so the "trick" could not be seen. He had no props and just used stuf we would get him. He was truly amazing at what he did and was a fine influence on kids. I hope it wasn't him who suffered the faux pas you mentioned.

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No, this guy was of oriental origin....not buck tooth anymore though...

[larry shafer]

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Number one selling item (per volume) in the Chain??????what do you think it might be?????Clackers?....winks.....size 34b bra.....Hershey Candy Bar (with nuts)...Doublemint chewing gum....Model car glue?...12 gauge shotgun.....Black shoe polish......Juicy fruit chewing gum......."D" cell batteries????what's your guess......

The number one seller in the candy dept was peanuts at 2 jars for a dollar. I figured up 1 time and if you lined up each case in all warehouses it would end up to 8 miles of cases,

DID anyone ever sell watermelons out front of their store ?

[larry shafer]

If you look rel close...Most of the old Variety (TG&Y included) had their name put in Mosaic tile coming into the building....This tradition seemed to stop when the stores started hitting suburbia. The TG&Y in Capitol still has the Tile there and the big sign is still on the back of the building......

When I worked at T.G.&Y. warehouse in Lubbock, I wrote corporate and suggested that since we carried " Golden T " products, we should change the red T in T G & Y to a gold t.
Needless to say it would have been too expensive

[larry shafer]

Sometime in the late 60's...I think the Winter of '68.......My sister-in-law and
a bunch of her friends went to some Church in Del City and got caught up in the big snow storm. My mother-in-law sent us (Father-in-law and I) out looking for them...We intended up staying in the Unit Parts building playing Poker all night. Only to find out that my Sister-in-law and her friends stayed in the TG&Y store at 44th and S.E. Bryant with the store manager....David Green (Hobby Lobby owner) since they were All snowed in......That store is now an Apache Indian Bingo Parlor.

speaking of Sunday and david greens store -- His Mardel stores are not open on Sunday

[Generals64]

speaking of Sunday and david greens store -- His Mardel stores are not open on Sunday

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What are you doing now my fair weather friend????

[Generals64]

The number one seller in the candy dept was peanuts at 2 jars for a dollar. I figured up 1 time and if you lined up each case in all warehouses it would end up to 8 miles of cases,

DID anyone ever sell watermelons out front of their store ?

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Yes, I did and I sat next to you at the corporate office for many years...Doublemint was the Number volume item....YOU showed me how to find out for Hubbell.......PM me if you can.....if not what are you doing Now?.....you'll know by this answer who it is.....

[larry shafer]

Not sure how to pm but I now work for Michaels Stores co. (19 years)
I live in Grapevine.
Did you also make Picante sauce ? Give me your last initial or a hint I think I know.
What have you been up to ?

[larry shafer]

Where are all our old friends ?
Don Ward , Bob Brown, charles kersten, tom danaher, gordon corson. bob herriott, etc etc
I am home recovering from a january 03 bicycle accident ( broken clavicle , punctured lung and 3 broken ribs.--- who says bicycles are healthy ?

[Generals64]

Where are all our old friends ?
Don Ward , Bob Brown, charles kersten, tom danaher, gordon corson. bob herriott, etc etc
I am home recovering from a january 03 bicycle accident ( broken clavicle , punctured lung and 3 broken ribs.--- who says bicycles are healthy ?

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Hey, you're too old to be riding a bicycle. Danaher and his wife have both passed away. he worked for me for a while....The last I heard from Ward, he was with Ace....The others....don't know...I've sent you a PM just read and let me know...Generals64 ........... see ya next time.....

[Generals64]

Well, it's that time of the year....Easter Baskets, Colored chicks and ducks...and Rabbits galore. the stores should be getting things in order for Easter time. Used to order Lillies by the hundreds and would get mad at myself for forgetting to pull out the little yellow tips inside so they wouldn't turn the leaves black when they touched them.... didn't know that did you??...We would begin taking orders for corsages and planning each stores Easter egg hunt....Did one one time inside the store and hid a $50.00 gift certicate (kids only under 12)...Big mistake...the kids tor the store completely apart looking for that Certificate......Always hid the certificate in the ladies panty aisle...The kids (both genders) were too embarassed to look there....Use to sell or give away 50 pounds of popcorn the Saturday before Easter.....always had the machine going...that aroma would completely entice the people into staying and shopping.....Great time of the year.....Not even Wal-Mart does those kind of promotions anymore....

[papaOU]

I have a couple of record albums with T.G.&Y price stickers on them.

[Generals64]

I have a couple of record albums with T.G.&Y price stickers on them.

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Back in the early sixties, the salesmen that delivered the records and magazines would most generally give us their "Pulls" I have and had so many records....I think they are still upstairs....Have to look....I remember when i was about ten or eleven years old, during the summer I would help the magazine guy with his Pulls and he would give me what ever I wanted (fronts were gone) and my first inclination was the comic books...had a bunch of them...They were good "trading material" also. Then, I ended up with a bunch of "Girly" magazines .....Man you want to talk about "Trading Material"....you could get all kinds of models and marbles with those magazines.....Hmmm how times have changed...

[gmwise]

I have not thought of TG&Y in years.
When i was a mere lad of 5 and up to 10yrs.
My family would go to Woolsworth in Ardmore, we had a saturday meal of hot dogs or a burger there.
Go to TG&Y, got one item for each of us.
Went grocery shopping at Safeway.
Came home, and got as dirty as possiable, so mom can be mom and yell at us.
I sometimes wonder if the kids today the ones who cry, and carry on, if they never been out before and not taught to behave in public.
Of course my maternal granddad and grandmother- knew how to make a switch slice thru air, just enough to get ya attention.lol
Lordy, i feel ancient.

[Prunepicker]

I sometimes wonder if the kids today the ones who cry, and carry on, if they
never been out before and not taught to behave in public.

Of course my maternal granddad and grandmother- knew how to make a
switch slice thru air, just enough to get ya attention.lol Lordy, i feel ancient.

The first real spanking I remember was in a TG&Y. I learned how to behave
in public real fast.

[oneforone]

Where exactly was/is the old TG&Y store in Capitol Hill?

[JavaPete]

There used to be a TG&Y in Yukon my parents would take us too...first time I ever bought a poster ( women in bikini ) was a TG&Y!

[Generals64]

I have not thought of TG&Y in years.
When i was a mere lad of 5 and up to 10yrs.
My family would go to Woolsworth in Ardmore, we had a saturday meal of hot dogs or a burger there.
Go to TG&Y, got one item for each of us.
Went grocery shopping at Safeway.
Came home, and got as dirty as possiable, so mom can be mom and yell at us.
I sometimes wonder if the kids today the ones who cry, and carry on, if they never been out before and not taught to behave in public.
Of course my maternal granddad and grandmother- knew how to make a switch slice thru air, just enough to get ya attention.lol
Lordy, i feel ancient.

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I was born and raised in Ardmore....Remember Woolwoth/SH Kress and Duke & Ayers....I helped establish the TG&Y Store in Ardmore, 1967...July and August....Used to be a pretty good store...

[Generals64]

Where exactly was/is the old TG&Y store in Capitol Hill?

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Right next to the bank on the South Side of Commerce. The name TG&Y is stillin the tile in the front door area. If you go around to 26th st. the old TG&Y Stores sign is still showing....That was a fun store to work in....

[Generals64]

Anyone on this thread remember the TG&Y Store on 29/Agnew????One night the store was broken into and instead of blowing the safe or picking the compination the crooks tied a chain on to and jerked it through the outside wall. You could see where they drug it down Agnew.....Cuts and Scrapes Yee Haw.....Store probably didn't have 400.00 dollars in the safe.....

[AstronautJones]

TG&Y was probably my favorite store growing up. The toy department was pretty awesome, I bought many a Star Wars and GIJoe figure there.

[SE-76]

Anyone on this thread remember the TG&Y Store on 29/Agnew????One night the store was broken into and instead of blowing the safe or picking the compination the crooks tied a chain on to and jerked it through the outside wall. You could see where they drug it down Agnew.....Cuts and Scrapes Yee Haw.....Store probably didn't have 400.00 dollars in the safe.....

A faint memory, didn't it close mid 60's or so? maybe replaced
by the one at 29th & kentucky?

[papaOU]

Where exactly was/is the old TG&Y store in Capitol Hill?

TG&Y in Capitol Hill was east of the bank and south of the Yale theater. Funny! It was the only business that has burned on Commerce St. for as long as I can remember.

[oneforone]

Does anybody know the cross streets it is near? Is the bank a white building.

[papaOU]

Does anybody know the cross streets it is near? Is the bank a white building.

Just east of Commerce and Harvey. the coney island is on the south east corner. go east just past the alley. the Yale is on the north side of Commerce. TG&Y stood in what is now a gap between bldgs. CONFUSED???

[Generals64]

Just east of Commerce and Harvey. the coney island is on the south east corner. go east just past the alley. the Yale is on the north side of Commerce. TG&Y stood in what is now a gap between bldgs. CONFUSED???

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Love ya PapaOU...But, TG&Y's building is still there.....I think the adddress is 310 West Commerce....But, it is right next door to the Bank. A blood plasma donation place.....the old sign is still on the back of the building....The building that burned was something like a Mode O'day or some kind of ladies shop. As a matter fact, the name TG&Y is done in the entrance tile.....The tile is a Gray and Turquoise/white....