Metromedia Restaurant Group was filled with crooks at the top level management positions for years. When we went to file for unemployment after the company collapsed, the company could not find our third quarter payroll information from the previous year. Just think about that for a second lol... Somebody was skimming at the top of MRG management because they knew exactly what was about to happen. I hope whoever that was had a good time with the money... Hey... I aint mad atchya, I just hope that, whoever you are, that your life sucks now... As a side note; if a major corporation hands you a paycheck that you know is bad, cash it at Walmart. They are insured. Don't take it to your bank. Peace.

Moorestown NJ still standing empty

Being on the west coast i only heard of it from reading BSc books. Thought it had to do with the motel chain

1950s decade was a really good decade for Burger Chef to be the coolest restaurant that ever been the famous fast food chain restaurant.

I missed MC sports like a lot bc I used to go there with my parents when I was a child and now it’s been 7 years now since it’s gone 😔😔

Worked at Bradlees on Arnot Mall Big Flats, NY in the early 1990s. It seemed like Bradlees was unstoppable.

JM Fields also helped pioneer the durable goods/grocery combo setup with Pantry Pride. The two stores were attached and shoppers could enter one from the other without having to go outside.

I wish burger chef would've survived considering our choices now.

This one hit me ! But I did get a huge deal with the closing sale. I got like 5 pair for under $40

I loved the stores that had the headphones for you to hear the albums before you purchased them. Even played the games like Walmart used to let you.

Wow it's almost like they sold the company to a high schooler...

Hh should have stayed on as the mascot, then the store wouldn’t have gone bankrupt 🧄🧄🧄 -🗞️💛

The mall is now a warehouse facility. The new owners rebuilt a handful of the entrances to the anchor store spaces into semi truck docks. A local company - Rital Corporation, uses the old J.C. Penny store as warehouse space. I am not sure what other tenants are using the space at this time. The Sears space is still untouched and even bears the Sears signage.

I was once an employee at Macy’s in the mall. Here is the story. Wren’s was a local Springfield area department store, originally located in downtown Springfield back in the day (1950s and 1960s). Rike’s was a Dayton, Ohio based store chain that operated stores all over the Miami Valley (Dayton-Springfield metropolitan area). Rike’s would help form what became known as Federated Department Stores, a collection of department stores in Columbus, Cincinnati, and Dayton. Federated eventually took over Wren’s. In the 1980s, Rike’s changed its name to Lazarus, as Federated put all of their stores under the Lazarus nameplate. At around the turn of this century, Federated Department Stores acquired Macy’s in New York. The company then changed all of its stores to Macy’s. Macy’s location in Upper Valley Mall was able to hold on until march of 2014, when it finally closed.

A new steak and ale opened a few weeks ago in Wyndham Burnsville Nicollet Inn looks cool!

Born in 91 never had a chance to try the restaurants. Theres a old Ho Jos lodge in gainsville. It no longer bears the ho jo name but the current owners have kept the place up. Its nice to have a quaint motel to wake up to the sleepy florida morning sun.

didnt occur to you to tell us WHY that chain failed

Ah man I miss Big Bear! I live in Columbus OH, they were everywhere.

So awesome your back in action!!! Hope to hear more from ya soon

As a teenager in the Dallas area, this is one of the places we went to quite a bit. Without hesitating, I always ordered the Three Amigos, which was 3 enchiladas, rice and beans: the plate with the most food, from what I could tell. Because as a teenager, I could freaking put it away lol These days I'm all about Chuy's, but there's always going to be a nostalgic soft spot for Don Pablos, just like everything else from the 90's.

What happened to winco

The old big bear store in the great southern shopping center is a Ollie's and the german village big bear on Whittier ave turned in a Giant Eagle then a giant eagle left that location

I do have a request but it is probably SUPER NICHE. Switz's store. I remember that the one in North Syracuse had the BEST halloween decorations. Oscar the giant used to scare me good lol. It was a great store regardless. like a Walmart before walmart killed it.

i hear they're trying to make a comeback and dang it... i think they'll work but they need to keep that old english look

Welcome back my friend. Good to see that you posted a video

Have you been to Cedar Point and in Columbus Zoo and aquarium🎢🎡🐬🐘

Good stuff! I love hearing about stores I've never known. Glad to see your video pop up!

I got a job at bennigans when my wife was pregnant with our first child. I worked every position including bartender... Sometimes all in the same day. My manager is literally loved me. One of them was gay and the funniest thing I remember him saying is "Curtis if you weren't straight I'd marry your ass" 😂😂😂. I was JUST about to be trained for management. Which was huge because my son was Just born. This was 2008. If you know the story of bennigan's and how they closed in 2008... Imagine for a second how it felt knowing you had a newborn baby and you were about to become a manager of a restaurant and going into work. But the doors are locked and there's a sign on the door that says this location has been closed... It f****** kills me the corporations do that to people without any warning. If I just had a baby, imagine how many of my co-workers were probably going through worse...

Subscribed! I remember walking around Eastland mall for hours with friends. Thank you for the nostalgia! Can I use some of these clips for a documentary?

I worked there in 1992 and 1993 while I was studying in Pasadena California.

Our ka-tet went into that Lazarus last month. If you wanna do that don't be like us. *bring PPE* That was a terrifying experience when huge clouds of spores flew all around us in the flashlight beams. Thankfully nobody got sick.

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I used to work at a warehouse owned by Lechmere, a Massachusetts-based retail store. Montgomery Ward bought them out, kicked out the union workers at the warehouse, and changed the look and feel of Lechmere's and in two years, Lechmere closed down.

someone gave a bazooka tshirt

I’m 52 and enjoyed Burger Chef a lot with my parents in the 70’s. We had two in New Albany, Indiana where I grew up and still live today. They were converted to Hardee’s in 1982 and stayed around into the late 90s when they closed as I guess they weren’t doing too well. Great channel you have. Ive been enjoying it 👍🏻

I know the initial family very well

I used to go to this mall many many times as a kid and young married guy in the 80s and early 90s. Then there was news that it wasn't very safe at the mall. My wife and I never went back. If you want to kill a mall bring in gangs of kids and make the patrons uncomfortable and it is all over. You can't blame Amazon for the demise of malls.

We went to Gauga Lake in 1999. It was not very good. The was no shade anywhere. People were passing out waiting in line for rides. The park employees were very rude, not at all happy to be working in an amusement park. No comparison to Kennywood Park near Pittsburgh. A very very nice place at the time.

They sold me a sprint home phone service to get a discount on what I was there to buy. AT&T called me later to return the service. I forgot about how annoying they were filling out the receipts and up sales. Stopped going there around 2004 when I needed many cables when I was changing to HD TV and surround sound. Prices were astronomical and everything they sold looked like it was for professional DJ equipment. I was just updating up my modest TV room. If I bought all the cables from Radio Shack, they would've cost more than the DVD player/recorder.

Does anybody else think it’s fucked up that companies acquire these failing businesses and then they don’t do anything to help the business and it files for bankruptcy and yet the shareholders still make a boatload of money somehow fucking bullshit. They’re literally just a bunch of scumbags circle jerking each other!

RIP to The Palace of Auburn Hills legendary arena will truly be missed, thanks for the memories and championships! 1988-2020.

Also The Bradley Center in Milwaukee the Bucks former home was built in 1988 along with the Charlotte Coliseum home of the Charlotte Hornets and late Charlotte Bobcats and Miami Heat home Miami Arena were all built in 1988.

Personally I loved Don Pablo’s food! I miss it

OMG I LOVED IT THERE!!

Merci beaucoup pour l'histoire Burger Chef❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😊❤❤❤❤❤ Millions of blessings, Esther St Juste

DP was my fav Mexican restaurant in Evansville IN years ago. The atmosphere was so unique and fun. Great place to drink too. Was so bummed when it closed down

I worked at the Bradlees in Medford, Ma in high school it's now a Kohls as is the one that was in Woburn, Ma. The one in Somerville, Ma is now a Target

Southland was only a strip mall!