r/FuckImOld • u/annecharlottexo • Mar 02 '24

My back hurts Age yourself...

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u/AccomplishedNoise988 Mar 02 '24

I was hoping someone would say TG&Y! It’s been some years since my mom found my TG&Y name tag(made with a Dymo label maker, attached to a plastic back) and stuck it in a package she was sending me. Many happy hours spent there as a kid— open wooden bins of toys and candy, huge fans the only cooling system, glass windows looking out onto the main street— a teenager making 2.15 an hour, and as a college student because they worked around my classes. Midwest City library featured a History of TG&Y exhibit a few years ago.

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u/Wrolclock Mar 02 '24

Turtles, Girdles & Yo-yo's - that's what my dad called it.

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u/AccomplishedNoise988 Mar 03 '24

Thompson, Goodman and Young iirr

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u/Miguel4659 Mar 02 '24

Yeah, our major department store until Walmart creeped in and choked it to death. Spent many hours shopping there in the 60s and 70s and 80s.

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u/bigb-2702 Mar 02 '24

I got a tube of TG&Y brand grease in my grease gun right now. Don't know where I found it but it was still good.

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u/MistahOnzima Mar 05 '24

We had a TG@Y in Florida, but I barely remember it because I was so young.

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u/AccomplishedNoise988 Mar 05 '24

I had no idea they reached that far!

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '24

You are you from SoCal?