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06-19-2012, 07:44 AM
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I had a T. G. & Y. lawnmower back in '78 when I first bought a house. A big enough variety store chain to have their own house brands. One replaced a Kresge's we had in the shopping center near the house I grew up in.
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06-19-2012, 09:47 AM
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Here's a video of this TV in operation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY60CpSXlog
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06-19-2012, 01:30 PM
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We had a TG&Y in Barstow when I was a Teenager, they sold such quality name brands as Kraco & Soundesign.
 I bought a couple Kraco 8-Track players from them and wound up returning them because the wow & flutter was so bad.
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06-19-2012, 01:43 PM
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Yeah those were not exactly the best built stuff. Soundesign stuff was not designed for sound quality as the brand name suggests. Kraco did hang on a lot longer. Well into the 90's. They sold it at Pep Boys too
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06-20-2012, 07:00 AM
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Yeah TG&Y wasn't exactly the best merchandise. Hell... I bet Walmart has better stuff today! I guess TG&Y was like a Dollar General... but much larger. Our TG&Y store in Port Arthur was pretty big... I'd guess about 30,000 sq ft.
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06-20-2012, 03:21 PM
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The running joke when I was growing up was that TG&Y stood for Toys, Games, and Yo-yo's. Their merchandise was pretty junky, and you were taking your chances on buying anything more than toys!
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06-20-2012, 04:08 PM
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We had a TG&Y in my town up until the early '90's. I've had several of these Sampo built B&W sets, as well as a Sampo built 13" color TV. I also had a 19" NEC built TG&Y color TV that used the same chassis as the much higher priced Curtis-Mathes TV's that were built by NEC.
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06-20-2012, 08:28 PM
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I think the last TG&Y around here closed in the nineties. Not much different than a Family Dollar type store. Enjoyed it while they lasted.
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06-24-2012, 03:04 PM
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TG & Y Stores were a 5 and 10 Cent outlet type store mainly found in rural areas. The upper end concept was TG & Y Family Centers which was more like a Woolworth or SS Kresge style store.
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06-24-2012, 04:34 PM
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Grew up in an area where our nearest neighbor was about half a mile away. TG&Y advertised on TV, but there weren't any in the Asheville area, that I can recall.
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06-25-2012, 03:27 PM
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We had a few around when I was a kid in Novato, CA (near San Francisco). The one in our town was a pretty good one, as I recall. At least the toy section!
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06-25-2012, 06:07 PM
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I bet that smell was passed on to Pic-N-Sav....which I think now is called "Big Lots". One of my guilty pleasures is hitting a Big Lots with absolutely NO plan and about three $20 bills in my pocket.....and then maybe a couple thrift stores. I tend to end up with the most USELESS stuff. Sometimes even a "score" for the micro TV collection.
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06-25-2012, 07:46 PM
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When I was a sprout, TG&Y stood for "Turtles, Girdles, and Yo-Yos"
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