Name some companies that you were sad to see go under.

Nobody beats him https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjQKFoUdk4g

While most well known as an electronics store, they had a really good CD section, at least the NYC Union Square location.

There’s an episode of Mad Men called Far Away Places that features a Howard Johnson restaurant. Also briefly in The Irishman. The last I checked there was only one restaurant left although the name is still used for hotels but without the iconic look.

Radio shack is Best Buy as is future shop

1. Radio Shack
2. Orchard Supply Hardware
3. Howard Johnson’s
10. Borders Books
12. Sears

Oh yeah.

Tower Records/Books/Video

Miss Cleo prank calls (soundboard)

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=miss+cleo+prank+call

I think it's mostly a matter of time and place. Prior to the early 90s the Kmart in my area was a real department store with decent merchandise and some extras you really don't see much of anymore like an actual diner and Christmas displays. A lot of stores tried to pick up a bit on this recently by adding a Starbucks or something like an in-store McDonalds but it's just not the same.

I remember going to Woolworths as a kid in the 70s with my parents. It was in a shopping center anchored by a Sears called Sears Town (Key West, FL) and the Woolworth had a lunch counter. In the later 70s they opened another shopping center where the anchor store kept changing and for awhile it was a Woolco which was owned by the same company but was bigger.

Earlier this year there was a news report about people fighting over toilet paper because of the pandemic and they mentioned it was at a Woolworths in Australia. So I thought they were still around but it is a completely different company.

I miss Pier 1, but before I missed it I missed India Imports.