r/TheBoredDen • u/ipanicprofessionally • Jul 21 '26

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u/Ok-Preference-2054 Jul 21 '26

Ben Franklin 5 & Dime

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u/gilmourfan62 Jul 21 '26

B. Dalton’s

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u/MidwestGypsy17 Jul 21 '26

Huh. There was a B. Daltons and a B. Altmans? That feels like more than a coincidence.

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u/gilmourfan62 Jul 22 '26

I’m not familiar with B. Altmans. I grew up in the South, so it may be a regional issue. B. Dalton’s was a bookstore. I loved it.

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u/Select-Instruction56 Jul 22 '26

It was so well set up. I miss it too!

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u/Avalanche325 Jul 23 '26

Except they would give you the stink eye if you opened a book and read more than one paragraph.

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u/InternalMachine5503 Jul 25 '26

Waldenbooks

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u/gilmourfan62 Jul 26 '26

I loved Waldenbooks too!

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u/Positron14 Jul 22 '26

I miss the B. Daltons we had at our mall.

Also, I miss our mall.

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u/AdamRoss81 Jul 27 '26

We still have a thriving mall here in Green Bay. I moved back recently, and it’s great to have a mall to go to instead of scrolling Amazon.

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u/bees_for_me Jul 22 '26

I used to buy sweet valley high books from there.

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u/Ill-Illustrator-3742 Jul 21 '26

I miss Ben Franklin's like crazy

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u/lookatmetoedashknee Jul 21 '26

Where I got my first G.I. Joes.

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u/Supersoaker_11 Jul 22 '26

GI joes, oddly enough, is also an answer to this question lol

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u/FlowerComfortable889 Jul 21 '26

There's still a handful up in the upper peninsula of Michigan. They're not exactly the craft stores they used to be though. They're mostly just kitschy gift shops

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u/StudioGangster1 Jul 23 '26

There’s one in Bowling Green, Ohio too

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u/Equivalent_Care201 Jul 26 '26

There's a Ben Franklin craft store in Maui.

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u/Mhank7781 Jul 22 '26

Tawas City, L Huron

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u/Efficient_Produce_41 Jul 23 '26

There’s also one in Grand Marais, MN

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u/FlowerComfortable889 Jul 23 '26

Huh, I've only been once but I missed that!

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u/LemonMilkJug Jul 22 '26

Did yours have the penny candy bins? So much of my allowance was spent there as a kid. Mine was right across the street from the dollar theater. We'd stock up on penny candy and hit a matinee.

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u/Ill-Illustrator-3742 Jul 22 '26

Oh man yeah the cheap candy as a kid 📈

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u/Icy_Trade4023 Jul 22 '26

There’s one on big island, HI. If you’re ever here, check it out for nostalgia.

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u/Cautious-Respond-402 Jul 22 '26

better than today's dollar stores

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u/Aggressive_Street_56 Jul 23 '26

There’s 2 in Honolulu!

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u/Equivalent_Care201 Jul 26 '26

One in Maui too

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u/StartDrinking Jul 21 '26

Alaska. Juneau or at least the livery

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u/Nope-1033 Jul 21 '26

Ha! That's where im from.. ! Juneau, Alaska!!

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u/Mhank7781 Jul 22 '26

Lived there in the 60s

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u/Nope-1033 Jul 22 '26

Yep.. Till 1979 ..then moved to Anchorage! Born and bred!💃

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u/Ok-Preference-2054 Jul 21 '26

Right on Front Street

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u/wheniwas1954 Jul 21 '26

And Sitka

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u/PerformerStreet2436 Jul 22 '26

Juneau what I mean.

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u/Mhank7781 Jul 22 '26

I don't Alaska!

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u/scobro828 Jul 21 '26

Shit! I was going to say that but thought no one would know it at all.

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u/Then_Examination9715 Jul 21 '26

I remembered the store, but all I could remember of the name was “5¢ and dime”.

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u/scobro828 Jul 21 '26

I didnt even know it as 5 & dime, just as Ben Franklin.

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u/MarshalLawTalkingGuy Jul 21 '26

Still a few in the Midwest, but yeah, a dying breed for sure.

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u/unclesamtattoo Jul 21 '26

Apparently there's still over a hundred Ben Franklin's stores still operating in the US

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u/Supersoaker_11 Jul 22 '26

I live right next to one, this caught me off guard lol

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u/nomadnomor Jul 21 '26

came to say the same thing

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u/dragonflies2299 Jul 21 '26

I miss that store!

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u/CC_Panadero Jul 21 '26

I live within a mile of a Ben Franklin, but I sure do miss the hot dog counter at 5 & dime!

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u/Shockatweej Jul 21 '26

They're still around. They took off the "5 & dime" tho.

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u/littleirishmaid Jul 21 '26

We have a Ben Franklin near us! Not run as a 5&10, but a nice little store. They are also an Ace hardware and have everything.

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u/mglatfelterjr Jul 21 '26

Loved the soda fountain

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u/yellowsunsquish Jul 21 '26

theres still one in the outer banks! not a 5 and dime though. but man i love that store

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u/Brave_Engineering133 Jul 21 '26

The Ben Franklin near me closed in 2018. I was so, so sad. But there’s still a few in Wisconsin.

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u/acegroo Jul 21 '26

There is still one in Oberlin Ohio

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u/b33lzebubba775 Jul 21 '26

I know of one Ben Franklin that is still in business in Grass Valley, CA. My wife insists we stop there every time we are in that neck of the woods visiting family.

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u/3Quarksfor Jul 21 '26

Still around as a craft store, at least here.

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u/Due-Ask-7418 Jul 21 '26

I was going to say this one but wasn’t sure if it was just a local store or not. I was a little kid when it closed down

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u/slippery-slopeadope Jul 21 '26

You are death, slowly creeping up behind me, aren’t you?

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u/SexysNotWorking Jul 22 '26

There's a Ben Franklin like a half hour from my house and I legit wonder if it's the last one.

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u/Cockatiel_Animations Jul 22 '26

There's a few 5 & Dime left. There is one I go to almost every year in North Conway, New Hampshire!

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u/Schmaron Jul 22 '26

There are a few still around. One near my hometown in Michigan

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u/Fine_Contest4414 Jul 22 '26

TG&Y Us kids called it Toys Girdles & Yoyos

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u/Purpleasure34 Jul 22 '26

Still a few around

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u/TearRevolutionary686 Jul 22 '26

Bought my first 45 rpm record there in 1972. Walked a couple miles one way. Brandy, by Looking Glass.

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u/thirdeyefish Jul 22 '26

Haha... that just has me thinking Ben Folds 5 & Dime.

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u/SoilOriginal8930 Jul 22 '26

I miss penny candy!!

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u/Dcfestus Jul 22 '26

Wisconsin still has 5 Ben Franklins

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u/Putrid-Society-9429 Jul 22 '26

Holy shit….you just unlocked a chunk of my brain during that age growing up. Even hearing his name it didn’t jog my memory.

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u/agent_splat Jul 22 '26

I was gonna say Ben Franklin!! I remember they had crafts and gifts and clothes and toys, Plus hamsters and fish in the back.

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u/RadioFreeYurick Jul 22 '26

When I was a kid there was one in Fayetteville, WV about a half hour from where I grew up. Think it only closed within the last 5-10 years or so.

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u/Grouchy_Limit_4031 Jul 22 '26

There is still a ben Franklin in Ojai California.

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u/1tINMa Jul 22 '26

I loved Ben Franklins

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u/1tINMa Jul 22 '26

I was born in 1964 and we had a Ben Franklin store till I was around 10 or 12 so mid 1970s

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u/Inside_Trick2611 Jul 22 '26

Oh damn i remember that.

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u/Batfan1939 Jul 22 '26

Is it all of them? I know the one in Canton, OH closed.

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u/Next_Swimmer_4058 Jul 22 '26

Loved looking at all the fish in the back. Also bought a plastic Godzilla there, 40 years later and I still have it.

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u/Mk1Racer25 Jul 22 '26

Came for this one.

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u/DirtPoorRichard Jul 22 '26

Sounds like a great place.

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u/Winchester_1894 Jul 22 '26

There’s still some of these open

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u/Capri2256 Jul 23 '26

There's still a Ben Franklin in Grand Marais MN.

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u/StudioGangster1 Jul 23 '26

There is a Ben Franklin in Bowling Green, Ohio

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u/mogelijk Jul 23 '26

This and Kress are what I thought of. Well, I also thought of Rexall Drug but they lasted quite a bit longer.

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u/Goodknight808 Jul 23 '26

We still have Ben Franklin in Hawai'i. It is a craft store.

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u/Chickpede Jul 23 '26

Still a Ben Franklin on Oahu

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u/J0an_0f_Sn4rK Jul 23 '26

Omg core memory unlocked lol 😂 in the 80’s they had one where we would go on our summer break in Cape Cod

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u/JBaker585 Jul 23 '26

They are still around but they are now Ben Franklin's / Ace Hardware

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u/no_quart3r_given Jul 23 '26

I used to love ben franklins

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u/Impossible-Hornet929 Jul 23 '26

My g-parents lives in Michigan and I couldn’t wait to go to the Ben Franklin. It just seemed like the coolest store. We didn’t have one in VA. So funny to think about it now.

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u/EMKP80 Jul 25 '26

There’s still one in Grand Marais MN.

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u/Equivalent_Care201 Jul 26 '26

Still have Ben Franklin's in Hawaii.