Gold Circle was a discount department store chain based in Ohio. Founded in 1967, it was a division of Federated Department Stores with 76 stores when the chain was sold and dismantled in 1988. This is a viewer suggested video.
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@rayshonmeeks5444 Жыл бұрын
Their toy department was next level. Thank you!
@EricCProductions76 Жыл бұрын
thanks for watching
@deborahchesser737510 ай бұрын
I got a huge Tyco race set there about 75’ or so, those were the days
@rayshonmeeks544410 ай бұрын
@@deborahchesser7375 Indeed.
@gregoryreed48662 жыл бұрын
My god, I could talk all day about the memories.....I'm 49 now, I got all of my Kenner Star Wars toys there , Gi Joe, I remember every inch of what one location was like and after years later , it turned into toys r us, I walked through it and it was so weird, I remember where everything use to be! I remember a tiny cafeteria in the back that sold these amazing French fries , my first records I bought with my own money were from there , Madonna Like A Virgin! I remember the men's department as I got older and I could buy my own clothing , I use to think I was such a player picking out my hang ten and brut bikini briefs ... I remember that concession stand that you'd smell entering at the end of the cash resisters ... popcorn and cherry slushee's, they had a brachs pick a mix area, I won a huge Xmas stocking one year after picking the right number out of a fishbowl when I bought a slushee the candy machines had stickers in those plastic bubbles that would come out when you'd put a quarter in... we had s upper parking level on this one and me and my brother loved going up and down in the elevator!!!!
@saf45302 жыл бұрын
You would be talking about the store on Glenway Ave. in Cincinnati. Loved it when my mom parked on the roof. I remember my mom going there when they had their Dollar Days sales and stocking up. To this day I miss that store. Gold Circle was the best. The good old days!
@gregoryreed48662 жыл бұрын
@@saf4530 omg yes!!!!!!! I wish the room were still open to the public, my god I loved Gold Circle, especially that location. My whole life is connected to it!!!!!!
@sladewilson4354 Жыл бұрын
Ridge Rd Gold Circle here...WHOOP WHOOP! Now all we need is a Swallens mini-documentary!
@gregoryreed4866 Жыл бұрын
@@sladewilson4354 lmao hey!!!!! Yes!!! Swallens was all that too!!!!!!!
@sladewilson4354 Жыл бұрын
@@gregoryreed4866 Or how about this one...Do you remember MARKETS INTERNATIONAL in Tri-County???
@resonant_harmonic5 ай бұрын
It was a great place to work in the 80s as a teen, lots of fun. I was there when it closed down and a lot of tears were shed by everyone.
@OhCol14 ай бұрын
Worked at GC from 1980 to 1987 in Columbus, OH. The most fun at any job I've ever had. Lifelong friends and fond memories. I miss the store.
@EricCProductions764 ай бұрын
thanks for sharing your memories
@enigmanemo93526 ай бұрын
I grew up in Dayton, Ohio and I remember my parents taking me to shop at Gold Circle. I used to hang out in their music section.
@heartofjesusdj4 ай бұрын
The popcorn, pretzels and Icees. Also, I loved looking at the records and great selection of toys they had. I love you forever, Gold Circle.
@dougfromsoanierana Жыл бұрын
I bought my first LP at Gold Circle in Evendale OH in the early 1980s: Business As Usual by Men at Work. My family shopped there often, especially during back-to-school season, back when there were no pre-washed jeans. You bought the new, cardboard-stiff jeans in the fall, wore them all year to break them in, then cut them off in the summer for shorts. Man am I old now.
@EricCProductions76 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing those nice memories. Good times my friend.
@tinas76532 күн бұрын
I remember wanting to buy makeup and perfume from these stores. I loved them. But I was very young. The prices were too high for our family. Going there was a special treat. I didn’t know that they lasted only til ‘88.
@sdrape4964 Жыл бұрын
I vaguely remember Gold Circle. There was one in Springdale, Ohio (across from Tri-County Mall) and that is the one we always went to. Since they closed in 1988, I was only 4 at the time, and though I don't remember too much about the inside of the store, I remember exactly where the Springdale store was... which was the same plaza as Toys R Us and Service Merchandise. Caddy-corner to that plaza was another shopping plaza with Camelot Music and Zayre. I haven't been in that area for a few years now, but as recently as 2019, the Kemper Road entrance immediately adjacent to the Gold Circle store still had the entrance and exit signs intact and in good shape.
@EricCProductions76 Жыл бұрын
thanks for sharing your memories
@Caratdarla Жыл бұрын
I used to shop at the one on Colerain Ave!!
@TheRealSuperJ2 ай бұрын
I was born in Columbus and GC was our go-to for school clothes, typically the night before the first day :).
@marksmusicplace36272 жыл бұрын
I am from Dayton Ohio and the Gold Circle we shopped at in the 70s was on Gettysburg Ave. it was in a plaza
@EricCProductions762 жыл бұрын
thanks for sharing your memories
@gregoryreed48662 жыл бұрын
Finally!!!! Thank you for bringing attention to Gold Circle. I long for pics inside the store. Hardly any commercials exist. Gold Circle was my jam as s kid!!!! Thank you thank you
@EricCProductions762 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing those nice memories and thanks for watching.
@gregoryreed48662 жыл бұрын
Eric C Productions and subscribed
@EricCProductions762 жыл бұрын
@@gregoryreed4866 thanks for subscribing, I got a ton of videos on defunct stores and now malls.
@deborahchesser73752 жыл бұрын
We were walking through our local Gold Circle smelling the popcorn and going nuts over this giant Tycho racetrack with 4 speed controllers, wouldn’t you Dad bought it for us on a whim. He must have been in a good mood, it was 1975, Great times
@EricCProductions762 жыл бұрын
@@deborahchesser7375 thanks for sharing that nice memory. thanks for watching
@deborahchesser737510 ай бұрын
My brother and I got a huge Tyco race set in the mid 70’s at GC, Ontarios foods was next door. Then Fazios, I miss those days.
@apage123 Жыл бұрын
I remember playing Nintendo games at a gold circle in Rochester NY , they had a demo setup in the electronics section , that store ended up becoming a Hills and then eventually Caldor before closing for good in the mid 90’s
@sooperb7 ай бұрын
I forgot about Hills. Kiddie City had demo stands too.
@fingersfan1843 Жыл бұрын
Gold Circle opened seven stores in Northern California in the mid 70s. Four were in the San Jose area and three were in Sacramento. I worked at one of the Sacramento stores from November of 1977 until they closed the stores in 1981. Ahh... memories !
@BubuBORG6 ай бұрын
In the Mid-80's, Gold Circle (Massilon OH) was the first place I saw CDs being sold along with the record albums. VHS tapes as well. But mostly I was looking at what Transformers they had on the shelves.
@heartofjesusdj4 ай бұрын
Yeah I remember seeing CDs there for the first time also.
@Geul21022 ай бұрын
I worked for GC from 1984-1988 at store #38 in Cuyahoga Falls.
@daboz87532 жыл бұрын
Absolutely delighted to find a video on this store, I remember quite fondly my mom taking me to one when I was a child. One of my earliest clear memories of visiting the store at night, and seeing the ‘gold circle’ logo there. I can’t really recall if I got anything from there, but I do recall a bottle of some kind of talcum powder with a Gold Circle price sticker on it that was in our linen closest for DECADES.😅 I wish I could recall the interior, I remember it better when it became a ‘Hills’, and then a ‘Caldor’, though the layouts were changed to fit the different stores themes. This one was at the ‘Greece towne mall ‘ in NY, which later became the ‘Greece ridge mall’. The area the stores occupied eventually became a movie theatre in the mid 90’s after Caldor left, and it’s been that ever since.
@EricCProductions762 жыл бұрын
thanks for sharing your memories and thanks for watching
@apage123 Жыл бұрын
I think there was a Woolworths in that area too? We would go there and then eat at the Big Boy on Ridge Rd
@amusement420 Жыл бұрын
My friend worked there in high school. he became an aeronautical engineer on the space shuttle. the building is now a Marc's grocery store. I got the Star Wars Millennium Falcon and Heroes in Action figures at Gold Circle. the other store names I remember are Clarkins, Woolworth's, Hills, Zayre, K Mart, J&B and Best.
@EricCProductions76 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing your memories
@urspendy Жыл бұрын
My hubby worked there during the cabbage patch thing..
@EricCProductions76 Жыл бұрын
Nice, then he got to experience the hysteria first hand.
@johnsos9 Жыл бұрын
I remember the one in Colerain, OH. That one was behind a Showbiz/Chuck E. Cheeses and it even had a movie theatre in it called Gold Circle Cinemas.
@EricCProductions76 Жыл бұрын
thanks for sharing your memories
@gregglouis29697 ай бұрын
Bought all of my HeMan action figures there at the Massillon store
@yaywhewclips2422 жыл бұрын
Our gold circle changed into Caldor, then that closed
@EricCProductions762 жыл бұрын
thanks for watching
@joshuajerrythereviewer2 жыл бұрын
Could you make a video soon on another local mall in my area called miromar factory outlet mall it opened in 1993 and closed in 2000 it was located in Champlain New York
@EricCProductions762 жыл бұрын
I will look into and put it on my list. Thanks
@joshuajerrythereviewer2 жыл бұрын
@@EricCProductions76 your welcome
@sebastianramos84912 жыл бұрын
Can you do one about caldor
@EricCProductions762 жыл бұрын
Sure: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/lZZ5jMyQqNrXaas.html
@patlarson34162 жыл бұрын
First place I got caught shoplifting.
@EricCProductions762 жыл бұрын
that can't be good. Thanks for watching
@patlarson34162 жыл бұрын
I was a dumb kid, never stole again!!
@EricCProductions762 жыл бұрын
@@patlarson3416 that's good. Hope you subscribed got more videos coming soon.
@juanserrano56292 жыл бұрын
Which request did you got for new videos you have a lot like what¿
@EricCProductions762 жыл бұрын
Richway, Mad Jacks Stereo, Miromar Factory Outlet Mall, Warner Bros Studio Store, Old Towne Mall, Liberty House, Building 19, Lord and Taylor, Frank's Nursery and Crafts, and Caldor.
@juanserrano56292 жыл бұрын
Oh my that is alot 📲👍✨
@yostevedotcom Жыл бұрын
$60! $20 even $10, that is gold, living up to their name. We couldn't afford all that. They had all night special hours? We had one in Mayfield Ohio.
@EricCProductions76 Жыл бұрын
thanks for sharing your memories
@ralphwiggum31342 жыл бұрын
I remember going to a Gold Circle in Charlotte NC back in the '80s. It wasn't open for long at all, maybe a couple months. Next thing I knew, it was a Target (that was the first Target I ever saw). I mentioned Gold Circle to my family a couple times over the years, but no one remembers it. This video proves I didn't imagine it!
@EricCProductions762 жыл бұрын
Awesome, share it with them. Thanks for watching
@minhdang4232 жыл бұрын
No one I know remembers either, and they're all older. I didn't know how to read but I remember the name and logo.