K-Mart in the 70's

[toys2cool]

Not to get off track too much but but the K Mart we went to had a small restaurant/cafeteria area in it. As a kid I loved to eat there. Buying some toys, eating a cheeseburger. Back then it didn't get any better!

My Woolworths was like that in the mall,I remember eating these awesome Ice cream Sundaes while opening my Ljn WWF figures,mad balls,Gi joes and the fisher price people

[brannon86]

K-Mart

I really hated it when K-Mart went BIG or SUPER. It really lost its charm, but I guess it did not matter, because it was never the same as it was back then. Different time, and different vibe. Dont even get me started on the evils of Wal-Mart...Ha....

[Marvelmania]

Woolworths was so much fun. When I lived in Nashville back in the early 90's there was still one open downtown, still had the lunch counter with the spinning stools and all. Sadly it closed the doors around '92.

[brannon86]

K-Mart

Yeah, all thats left in my town is the EVIL WAL-MART, and Target. Everything else has been gone for years....

[EmergencyIan]

I know it's cliche', but it really does seem that most things change for the worse. It sure is sad, but, alas, you can't go back.

- Ian

[brannon86]

K-Mart

So true, but we have the memories...

[brannon86]

K-Mart

Actually the original K-Mart in my town is a Big Lots now. It was a lumber supply place before BigLots. Its the arch style building design....

[supercrazy]

I remember K-Mart quite well as a kid. Most of the time my parents would leave us in the family station wagon knowing if they took us inside it would be a living hell for them. It was great though when we would go inside. Megos, star wars, dungeons and dragons, duncan batmobiles. Great stuff. I always loved going to K-Mart, Jewel, and Zarye. I lived in Gary Indiana as a kid and we had great stores close to home. I miss being a kid and I will go back if they ever make time machines. I also remember my father going to a mom and pop store as a kid and buying me a mego penguin and joker. I broke the penguin in less that five minutes. He was a type 1. My dad then went back to the store and bought me another one. It would be so nice if dc direct and marvel would bring mego back for one more run even if was for a short run at that. It is time for everyone here to petition. We mego crazed people need our childhood back.

[brannon86]

K-Mart

Yes we do....

[palitoy]

My best K Mart memory was walking in and finding a whole aisle of Black Hole figures buck a piece, Humanoid, Old Bob, Star included.

Yesterday while coming back from the Buffalo airport I noticed the K Mart I haunted since the eighties had closed, I lamented it's loss and my son said "What's a K-Mart?". In Canada, K Mart folded in 1997.

[brannon86]

k-Mart

About the smell of K-Mart. I remember that also. It did have a certain smell to it, especially back then. I also remember the smells of the popcorn and icees and other foods they had at the counter. And who can forget the BLUE LIGHT SPECIALS. Attention K-Mart Shoppers. On Isle 4 we have Mego figures on sale. Ha, Yeah, those were the days.

Sometimes, I smell something, and it takes me back to a moment in time. Ever happen to you?

[supercrazy]

Here in Harlingen Texas near where I live. They still have K-Mart. They still have the section where they serve icees and popcorn and hotdogs. The only problem with this store is that they are more expensive than other stores I go to. This will be the downfall here. You will not draw in customers with outrages prices but in the 70's it was a great store.

[brannon86]

K-mart

Yes, there are 1 or 2 in my state, but no K-Mart in my home town now. Hasnt been for probably 10 years now, and thats the SUPER one, not the original one that came here in the early-mid 70's. That one went out in the late 80's. I think around 88 I beleive....Yes, K-mart, or any other store(if it still exist) will never be the same, ha, because its not the 70's anymore. Different times and vibe these days....Im just glad I was a kid in that era....

[supercrazy]

You are correct. You wouldn't notice though walking in to the K-Mart here. It still looks the same as it did when I moved here in 1984. Not sure what it looked like before that but it still has the weird music and it takes me back everytime I walk into the store. Someone needs to make a working time machine so we can take turns going back just for even a minute. Who knows maybe none of us will want to come back.

[brannon86]

K-Mart

Yes, that would be awesome. Just step into the time machine, and go back, look around, and feel the vibe again, but you know what, you would have to go back as a kid, the way you were back then, or else it would not be the same either. You would see it all with adult eyes....