Toys R Us in the 70's

[kingdom warrior]

As a person who worked a second job at TRUS to pay school bills in the late 80's into part of the 90's, I must say that is one HORRIBLE company to work for....the Nostalgia I had as a kid for it completely died. I only go in there to shop for my daughter when I have no other place to go.......

[emeraldknight47]

Never went to a TRU in the Louisville area in the seventies, but that's okay, because, MIB41 can attest, we had the fantastic local toy store Thornberry's and the late, great Children's Palace, both of which were better stocked and kept neater than ANY TRU I've been in. And since I frequently spent my summers as a kid in Pompano Beach, FL, I had access to a Lionel PLAYWORLD, which was the freakin' BEST!!

[Red Hulk]

I never went to ToysRUs till the 80s I used to go to the Lionel Kiddie City here that was a pretty cool store.

[Bruce Banner]

Cool shots.

I think it must have been the mid 80s before I visited my first Toys R Us store...

I don't even think there were any branches in Canada in the 70s, but maybe there were.

[MIB41]

Never went to a TRU in the Louisville area in the seventies, but that's okay, because, MIB41 can attest, we had the fantastic local toy store Thornberry's and the late, great Children's Palace, both of which were better stocked and kept neater than ANY TRU I've been in. And since I frequently spent my summers as a kid in Pompano Beach, FL, I had access to a Lionel PLAYWORLD, which was the freakin' BEST!!

Chris is correct. In Louisville Thornberrys was king. TRU didn't even arrive in our town until the decay of toy stores had begun in the early 80's. It was very sad when Thornberrys finally closed their doors in the early 90's. TRU didn't touch it for price or product availability.

[Spawn67]

There was this store in the baltimore area where I grew up called Toytown in the late 70's/early 80's. That store was way better than TRU and to this day I still have many of the toy's I got there. Place was massive or at least as a kid it seemed that way. They closed in the early 80's.Its one of the first places I would go if I had a time machine. There was and still is to this day a TRU right up the street. I started going there in around 83 or when it was cool Id say. When I went back home to visit I went there for nostalgia sake and I was bummed because the store is now all modern and no longer had the charm of that store as a kid and was way way smaller in toy selection.
We had some kiddie city's in the region I remember going to in the mid 80's. Really I would go anywhere back then to get toys and it seems everyplace I went from the mom and pop stores, to the malls, to the corporate toy stores had its own charm and each had something you couldn't find at the other store.

[toys2cool]

I never went into a TRU until the 80s.

same here, man i use to love the way it looked, i can still remember every aisle

[cjefferys]

I don't even think there were any branches in Canada in the 70s, but maybe there were.

I don't think so, according to Wiki, the first Canadian (and also, first international) TRU was opened in 1984. I don't remember visiting a TRU in the 70's, when we went on shopping trips over the river to Buffalo NY when I was a kid, we went to Child's World (some of which ended up being bought out by TRU in the early 90's). That store was awesome too, I don't think I went to a TRU until the early 80's.