Remember TG&Y?

[jd45]

We had a TG&Y here in the early 80's. It had the best sporting goods department you'll ever see in a dept. store. They some had top end brands, not just cheap stuff. If Bill Dance fished with it, they had it. Bought my first Daiwa Magforce there. They had all the cool retro boxes of Peters shells, plus Blue Magic trap loads.
It was a small store with great employees and customer service. I think they should have become a tiny upscale Walmart for small towns. They were too good ,and gone in like 7 years.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TG&Y

 

[sheriff john]

Our TG&Y never handled sporting goods - it was a "Grandma Store", sewing, quilting, inexpensive goods that ladies enjoyed. Lots of toys and, of course, candy located by the checkout counter where whining children could grab and plead. Christmas items were amazingly gaudy. Lasted many years.

 

[JEBMs]

I was visiting my brother in the late 1960’s and a friend of his stopped by to show off his dozen fiberglass arrows complete with the Bear Razorheads he had picked up for $2 and change. He said that he got them at TG&Y in the sporting goods department but took them to the front to pay for them because the stock person figured that it was too much trouble to put a price tag on each arrow so he just put a tag on each box. The check out person in the front didn’t know what a dozen arrows were worth so she just entered the cost that she saw on the box. My brother was a newly wed and I was a high school kid and we both were broke as the Ten Commandments so we put morals aside and followed his lead. I ended up with a dozen aluminum arrows and my brother got a dozen fiberglass for less than $6.