Age yourself with a store

[SpaClient]

The Red Barn

There is still a recognizable Red Barn building in Hamilton at the corner of Queenston Rd and Walter Ave. It's a Thai place now but you can still see the basic outline and the hipped-roof.

 

[explorerzip]

Bargain Harold's
Zellers
Honest Ed's
World's Biggest Bookstore
Video 99
Ponderosa
Mother's Pizza and Pasta
Bonanza
JJ Muggs
Lick's

 

[MissCroft]

World's Biggest Bookstore

I miss the World's Biggest Bookstore! Spent a LOT of time in that place.

 

[JohnHenry]

Gas stations
BA
Gulf
FINA
Supertest
White Rose

 

[y2kmark]

Taco Bell. They never quite got the hang of the menu, but it still beat col. chicken and all that poutine stuff...

 

[explorerzip]

I miss the World's Biggest Bookstore! Spent a LOT of time in that place.

Did you know the secret path to get from the Eaton Centre to the front of the bookstore without having to go outside?

 

[dockyada]

One store tops them all

 

[Robert Mugabe]

Guitar Trader, Red Bank, N.J. One of the earliest vintage guitar stores.

Where I bought my '59 Burst in 1983View attachment 26993

Nice nice nice. Does it have the tiger stripe flame top like Joe Walsh's? What did you pay for it back then? ball park?

 

[Spunky1]

W.H. Smith
Coles
Hercules army surplus
Lunch counter @ Woolworth
PJ’s pet store
IGA
Dominions
That giant orange shaped orange juice place that sold fresh squeezed juice at malls .

 

[shack]

That giant orange shaped orange juice place that sold fresh squeezed juice at malls .

Orange Julius?

 

[billie69]

The Red Barn

Was that on Dundas? It’s a Mr. Sub now.

 

[billie69]

W.H. Smith
Coles
Hercules army surplus
Lunch counter @ Woolworth
PJ’s pet store
IGA
Dominions
That giant orange shaped orange juice place that sold fresh squeezed juice at malls .

How about Towers? Which became Zellers which became Target which became empty units.

 

[xmontrealer]

Nice nice nice. Does it have the tiger stripe flame top like Joe Walsh's? What did you pay for it back then? ball park?

Amazing condition apart from the tuner buttons. Mild flame, depending on the light. $8,500. Sold it in 2011. Early '59 with narrow frets. The tuner buttons were starting to shrink and disintegrate in 2010, as was usually the case with the original plastic tuning buttons on Gibsons (and Gretsch bindings and pickguards as well).

I would have got a lot more for it if the flame had been more pronounced, and wide frets, but I did OK. Wish I could have bought 10 of them in 1983, cuz Guitar Trader had that many in stock...

 

[Robert Mugabe]

Amazing condition apart from the tuner buttons. Mild flame, depending on the light. $8,500. Sold it in 2011. Early '59 with narrow frets. The tuner buttons were starting to shrink and disintegrate in 2010, as was usually the case with the original plastic tuning buttons on Gibsons (and Gretsch bindings and pickguards as well).

I would have got a lot more for it if the flame had been more pronounced, and wide frets, but I did OK. Wish I could have bought 10 of them in 1983, cuz Guitar Trader had that many in stock...

Nice. I got a 62 Cream white Strat in 1974 in Toronto. $225.00 Still got it.

 

[jalimon]

Orange Julius?

Montreal Orange Julep is still there

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[Robert Mugabe]

Was that on Dundas? It’s a Mr. Sub now.

I partook of their bargoon meal back in 1973. My first month in Toronto. If you ever watched "going down the road" I was a carbon copy of one of those guys.

 

[malata]

shoppers drug mart

 

[jalimon]

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[Jasmina]

Hahaha, Bargain Harold's! Totally forgot about that place.

There was a Licks just off St.George until just a couple years ago.

Bargain Harold's
Zellers
Honest Ed's
World's Biggest Bookstore
Video 99
Ponderosa
Mother's Pizza and Pasta
Bonanza
JJ Muggs
Lick's

 

[Jasmina]

Radio Shack!