1980s Stores That No Longer Exist: A 30 Store Memory Quiz

Zayre, Ames, Woolco, Service Merchandise, Child World, KB Toys: 1980s stores that no longer exist, played as a 30 store memory quiz. Walter gives a clue for each store, a slogan, a building, a gadget, and you get three seconds to say the name before he does. Every chain on this list was open in the 1980s and every one has closed its stores for good. You'll hear the year each one closed and, for many of them, who moved into the building after. Some of the answers surprise people. Target filled Gemco's old stores in California. Foot Locker began as a division of Kinney Shoes. Ames bought Zayre and Hills and still closed in 2002. And the store with the conveyor belt is number 24. Keep score, put your number in the comments, and tell Walter the store from your town that he left off. Chapters 0:00 1980s Stores That No Longer Exist: The Rules 1:40 Discount Stores That Lost to Kmart and Walmart 6:40 Big Discount Chains of the 1980s, Gone 11:00 Home Improvement Stores Before Home Depot 16:10 1980s Shoe and Clothing Stores That Vanished 20:20 Catalog Showrooms and the Toy Store Castle 24:10 The Last Big Names on the List 28:15 Your Score, and One Store That Isn't Quite Gone ---------------------------------------------- Disclaimer : About this channel: Walter's Vanished America is an independent research production. Some narration is delivered with AI voice assistance and some illustrative imagery is AI-generated or creatively restored — all such material is disclosed via YouTube Studio's altered-or-synthetic-content checkbox. Historical figures, dates, and corporate timelines are researched from public records, trade journals, and viewer correspondence; dramatised passages are clearly framed as reconstructions, not interviews. Archival photographs are used under fair-use for historical commentary and education. This channel is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by any company referenced in its videos.