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Thread: Even More Vintage Toy Store Pictures

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    Even More Vintage Toy Store Pictures

    I'm always happy when I have enough of these images to fill another page. In our sixth installment we visit several toy stores on Halloween (kind of fitting). See a store visit by a giant MonChichi in 1983 and check out the many images from the video game explosion of the early eighties chockfull of Atari and INtellivision consoles and enough electronic games that your head will explode.


    When you're done strolling through the new update, please check out our five previous Toy Store Galleries for more strolls down memory lane. Everything from pictures of long gone department store fronts to toy aisles brimming with star wars, G.I. Joe, Tonka Trucks and Mego Superheroes.
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    Great pics

    i use to love Lionel playworld,you could always get those clearance items with those huge Orange stickers that covered half the figures
    Good times
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    man I love these pictures ... I just wish I could find some of the old Jafco store in salem oregon.

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    those were the days!! too many toys and not enough $$$

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    WOW!
    I had been in that very Cassler's in Burlington 100's of times. thanks for bringing me back!

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    Very cool! I spotted a Simon, Super Simon and a Microvision (I have the last 2) in the Game store. And yes, the Atari is still hooked up to my TV.
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    Amazing stuff.
    WANTED: Boxed, Carded and Kresge Carded WGSH

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    Quote Originally Posted by lepage View Post
    WOW!
    I had been in that very Cassler's in Burlington 100's of times. thanks for bringing me back!
    I was just saying to myself "Nobody ever tells me this was their store as a kid" Thanks for doing that Dave, it made my day.

    Amazing stuff.
    Thank you sir, I wish I could do this every week.

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    It's amazaing we love this type of stuff but I dare say not one of us has walked into a toy department and snapped pics to be posted 30 years from now. Why is that?
    WANTED: Boxed, Carded and Kresge Carded WGSH

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    I was a Lionel Kiddie City guy, but seeing the Playworld was pretty cool.

    That aisle of old Halloween decorations totally rocks. I just picked several of those jointed, flat Halloween decorations aloong with a couple blow-molded plastic Hallowwen lights to 70's-up my pad for the holiday!
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