Where did you buy your toys?

[brannon86]

Where did you (your partents) buy your toys back in the day. I got most of mine from K-Mart, Sears, or Wilsons....

[Bionic Joe]

Basicaly from these three stores GRANT CITY/ J.M FIELDS/ TWO GUYS non of these stores are still in bussines today

[RG]

Being in Silverton Oregon only two stores had toys, Sprouse and a local store call T-Mart (sort of a bargan store 99% of the time it sucked!)

Now about once every other week we would go to Salem, there I would get most of my toys at a northwest store chain called GI Joes until 1982 when they quit selling toys :(

Jafco (later called BEST) was one the the real hot spots for me as a kid, they had more of the hard to find figures. I got many GI Joes figure here ...it's also where I found my Crimson Guard

Wards was a place I would get an item once in a great while.

in 1985 Salem got a Toys R Us, from then on that was my main spot.

[toys2cool]

mine was Toys r us, lionel playworld, there was 1 K B toys in the mall and woolworths

[Hulk]

Sears Wish Book, Woolworth's, Drug Stores, wherever my mom made the mistake of taking me that also sold toys, and eventually Toys R Us

[cjefferys]

I got a lot of toys, including my first Megos, at Zellers, a Canadian department store chain that still exists (but the ones near me are barely holding on against the competition from Walmart). I remember getting my first Star Wars figure from Robinsons (a Canadian dept store chain that no longer exists). Later figures were purchased mostly at K-mart and Rosbergs (an awesome old department store in downtown Niagara Falls that sadly closed up years ago. They had an amazing toy selection). Once in a while my mother took us across the border to Child's World in the US. Those stores never made it to Canada, and Toys R Us wasn't in Canada yet, so when I went to a huge toy store like Child's World, I was in absolute awe, we had no stores like that. I always wished my mother took us there more often.

[toys2cool]

I got a lot of toys, including my first Megos, at Zellers, a Canadian department store chain that still exists (but the ones near me are barely holding on against the competition from Walmart). I remember getting my first Star Wars figure from Robinsons (a Canadian dept store chain that no longer exists). Later figures were purchased mostly at K-mart and Rosbergs (an awesome old department store in downtown Niagara Falls that sadly closed up years ago. They had an amazing toy selection). Once in a while my mother took us across the border to Child's World in the US. Those stores never made it to Canada, and Toys R Us wasn't in Canada yet, so when I went to a huge toy store like Child's World, I was in absolute awe, we had no stores like that. I always wished my mother took us there more often.

Yeah isn't Child's world the same thing as Playworld? I heard it was the same company,yeah all my first toys were from a local small store called Villa clara here in Miami.It's still open to this day,I swear you walk in there and it's still 1986.They have Heman figures,secret Wars,Star Wars hanging on the walls and a whole warehouse in the top floor full of vintage toys from the 70's to the early 90's it's just great stuff!! the only thing is that he knows what they are worth now so the deals aren't as good.But i'm telling you guys they even have sega master system and Nintendo games brand new sealed

[Marvelmania]

Mostly from K-Mart, McCrorys,Sears, Woolworth's, JC Pennys and a few other like Ben's Sports Store, Kings, Howard Bros., Super X Drugs and they even once placed an order from Heroes World in NJ.

[jwyblejr]

Jamesway and Ames mostly.

[batmanmc]

childs world , toy r us and caldor. almost forgot kmart and mammoth mart. mammoth mart is where my last mego was purchaseda 3 3/4 inch capt kirk in the 70-80 era .

[toys2cool]

hey i almost forgot another one,anyone ever go to Zayres? check out the Batman commercial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0npSJIi5y_g

[VintageMike]

Toys R' Us, Sears, Child World, Bradlees, Service Merchandise, and a local place called the Toy & Sport Warehouse. That place rocked!

[HardyGirl]

My mom used to buy toys from Macy's & Gimbels toy departments. My dad used to get toys from this wholesale place his friend owned. I used to buy my friends' birthday gifts at a little toy store 2 blocks away from where I lived. I don't remember the name of it.

[Bizarro Amy]

Hills always seemed to be the best place to get good toys. I don't know if there were any of those stores elsewhere. Maybe just around here. But to me, their jingle was one of the most memorable. "Hills is where the toys are." I remember that one even more fondly than when Toys'R'Us showed up with the "I don't wanna grow up" song. Best was another really good one. I remember when you couldn't get Cabbage Patch Kids anywhere, and my mom and I walked in there one day, and there was one sitting on the shelf, which she promptly bought for me. Man, I remember how happy I was, walking out of the store with that box in my arms.

[Sweep Secondhand]

Being from a smaller town in Florida, most of my toys came from the J.C. Penney and Sears catalogs (both my mother and grandmother loved catalog shopping and this was back in the day when these were free standing stores and malls were only a rumor). We also had the general merchandise stores like K-Mart, JM Fields, and GW Grants plus a few of what we called "dime stores" like Niesner's and T,G &Y. These smaller stores had fewer Joes but carried a lot of the less expensive stuff like the Megos and army men. K-Mart was probably the best over all store for me for action figures when I was growing up.