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Zellers to return in 2023
- Thread starter Jampy00
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Priller
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And the weekends were flip-flops and going commando? If so, sounds a lot like my early time on my own ..
Oh man, don't get me started on all the iconic facades that they promised that they would keep forever as a "historical monument".
"We'll still keep the lighted signs of Honest Ed's and A&A Records!"
Yeah, where are they now?
Lies. All lies...
Mos Def!
Also Sparx and North Star running shoes. I remember my favorite pair of sneakers was a pair of North Star "Star Wars" shoes with a small X-Wing fighter puffy sticker glued cheaply to the sides. I was crestfallen when those quickly fell off.
I know my mom liked BiWay at least partly because they didn't have anything cool enough for me to get googly-eyed over
sburns
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It was, I worked at a couple at the end of high school, well if you call that work... we did something..
sburns
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Sam's sign is still there.. kinda.Oh man, don't get me started on all the iconic facades that they promised that they would keep forever as a "historical monument".
"We'll still keep the lighted signs of Honest Ed's and A&A Records!"
Yeah, where are they now?
Lies. All lies...
The cafe at the Zellers we had was ok. The rest was just nasty.
We used to have a downmarket department store here in Kingston called S&R which was ok but the weirdest thing was the lift attendant in an ill fitting uniform with white gloves. It was just odd riding in the elevator with this strange person. Also didn’t help that the uniform looked just like the RMC cadet uniform. Bad for the cadets since they regularly got asked if they were lift attendants or whether they could take us to “2nd floor, ladies lingerie”.
We used to have a downmarket department store here in Kingston called S&R which was ok but the weirdest thing was the lift attendant in an ill fitting uniform with white gloves. It was just odd riding in the elevator with this strange person. Also didn’t help that the uniform looked just like the RMC cadet uniform. Bad for the cadets since they regularly got asked if they were lift attendants or whether they could take us to “2nd floor, ladies lingerie”.
OMG, I totally forgot about the Zellers restaurant "The Skillet" This gave me flashbacks of BLT's and fries....
Bargain Harolds while we’re at it…
Relax
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I was just talking about this with a friend a few weeks ago! We mostly shopped at the Mississauga location on Dundas by Hurontario. Half of the fun was going through the catalog and finding something you could afford. The other half was the anticipation of seeing your item magically appear and slowly rise out of "nowhere". Their warehouse was in the basement, and they had a conveyor belt to send items up to the cash, but as a kid, wow, magical indeed! Even as a teenager, it was kind of like waiting for your luggage at the airport. "Is that it??? Yes! Oh, wait, no..."
I was super excited when I got a pair of shoes that look like hockey skates. I believe they were the Koho brand. black shoes with white stipe, angle high. They were perfect for street hockey.
I still have a kettle that my parents purchased around the same time (mid 90's). We used it for camping. I still had the box with the yellow price tag until a few years ago. Kettle still works and whistles as it did the first time we used it.
I remember the one by Dixie and Dundas in Mississauga.
Ironically enough, it was in the same plaza as the Zellers that we would go to.
At the time, I was eyeing a Casio watch with the built in calculator.
Some of the stuff built back then just lasted a long longer than the junk produced today.
My best friend's parents passed away recently and I was helping him clean out some of their stuff from their apartment to try to put up on Kijiji or Craigslist. His niece took pictures of everything and researched how much she could get for some of the items.
One of the items was a cheap Corningware casserole dish, white with blue flowers on it. I remember my parents also had a set. You could get them for less than $5 at Zellers or BiWay, back in the 70s. Apparently, today there is a huge vintage pyrex boom in the collectors market. That exact casserole dish sells for over $1000 USD online!
When he told me, I called my parents and asked them if they still had the dishes.
Nope, all thrown out...
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Pretty sure my folk's still have their set. Interesting.
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