[Jason B.]

The Livermore, Calif. TG&Y was located in the Alpha Beta shopping center on Railroad Avenue. I believe that it opened around the same time as the Alpha Beta, which opened in 1968 and closed in 1984. The Livermore TG&Y next became a J.J. Newberry. In 1997 or so, the TG&Y portion of the shopping center was converted into a "24 Hour Fitness," which it remains today.

The Alpha Beta/TG&Y shopping center also had a Thrifty Drug store for many years with a ice cream counter (now Grocery Outlet). Straw Hat Pizza had a location at the easterly end of the shopping center in the late '70s and early '80s (later a Kragen Auto Parts location) (Straw Hat, like many other pizza parlors in the early '80s, had a giant screen projection television set and many video game arcade machines).

I believe that TG&Y was known as a "junior department store" type of retail outlet. Another "junior department store" chain in the mid- and late-20th century was Sprouse-Reitz.

[TenPoundHammer]

TG&Y owned Scott's, another second string dime store chain that had stores in the Midwest. Scott's stores were smaller than typical Woolworth or Kresge stores. Many Eastern and Midwestern chains followed their customers to Florida so that may explain the TG&Y presence there. TG&Y dropped the Scott's name somewhere in the late 60s or early 70s on existing stores. Two Scott's/TG&Y stores I rememeber in the Cleveland area were at Forest Hills Plaza in East Cleveland and Town Center in Wickliffe. I think there also was one in Euclid at Shore Center. Forest Hills Plaza dates from the 30s and Shore center from the late 40s, so they probably would have had a longstanding footprint if the stores had been original to those centers.

Ah, that explains it. Fort Saginaw Mall had a TG&Y/Scott's. This store later became a sporting goods store and has been vacant for at least a decade (the mall is boarded up).

[Rob72830]

I can remember 3 TG&Y's in Little Rock when I was a kid in the 60's and 70's. One of the stores was in a little strip shopping center on East Roosevelt Rd between a Kroger's (still open) and a Kent's dollar store(now a Family Dollar). It was a little store. Another was in a tinier strip between a Kroger's and a laundramat. BTW, that Kroger's is now a DHS office. I wonder if TG&Y and Kroger had some kind of partnership? The third was in Tanglewood shopping center, on Cantrell Rd, next door to a Safeway. At the other end was a Otasco store which incidently had been owned by McCrory's some years earlier. I don't remember when the stores closed. I assume in the 80's after I had left for the Navy. I do remember a McCroys-TG&Y in Jacksonville, FL though we didn't shop there but once. Not a very big selection. We usually went to Pick-N-Save, Kmart or Zayres.

[Ackman]

Here's a fun fact:

TG & Y is mentioned in a rock song. The song is "Van Halen" by the band Nerf Hurder.

The lyrics are as follows: "I bought Van Halen I it was the best damn record I ever owned, TG & Y, 1978."

I don't think they ever made it as far as MA

[OCRedCub]

TG&Y was similar to a Sprouse-Reitz, but larger.
I remember lots of them in North Orange County CA. My cousin worked at one in the Riverside/Corona area.
Does anybody know what T, G, and Y stood for?
I don't know the connection to Wal-Mart.

[Daniel]

This is from Wikipoo, so it may or may not be accurate. (I've always heard those same last names in reference to the chain, but this is the first I've come across first names)

The chain was named for its three founders: Rawdon E. Tomlinson, Enoch L. "Les" Gosselin, and Raymond A. Young

[Dean]

History and picture:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl= ... X%26um%3D1

Picture:

http://www.cruisecloseouts.com/T%20Pics ... e%2001.jpg

Marina-style store picture:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl= ... X%26um%3D1

[Jack]

TG&Y was similar to a Sprouse-Reitz, but larger.
I remember lots of them in North Orange County CA. My cousin worked at one in the Riverside/Corona area.

There was a TG&Y in Corona back in the 1970s. It was located at the northern end of the Corona Plaza shopping center on Main Street. I think the old TG&Y building is now a big discount store of some kind. I do know that there's a Sears outlet store in the building next door, which used to be a Builder's Emporium hardware store.

[Dean]

The former TG & Y on Main Street in Hesperia CA is FINALLY being subdivided into a few things.

It must've been sitting vacant for 15-20yrs.

The Industry CA site was next to Alpha Beta. Became Salvation Army Thrift Shop for a spell. Believe it is not vacant.

It is now a pizza place.

Hacienda Heights Pizza Company.

Funny...as it is in the City of Industry!

Original flooring can be seen...with some of the original markings from displays/registers posts.

[ashley2771]

A former T.G. & Y Family Center which closed in the early 90s is still intact in Waynesboro, GA, complete with sign. It is near the intersection of Georgia Hwy. 24 and US 25.

[Mkelly85]

This old shopping center at the corner of Mill and Rancho in Colton, CA has perplexed me for a long time, and I think I finally found the answer in the April 1963 Yellow Pages through the Library of Congress.

There isn't an exact address but unless the location was on another corner and has since been demolished, it has to be this building. One unit has an old mosaic wall, maybe a drug store like Recall?

Since the Stater Bros store closed, this complex probably isn't long for this world. Probably soon to be another massive apartment building.

Sorry for resurrecting a long-dead thread, but since this is my first post in a long time, I didn't want to sound redundant.

[pseudo3d]

This old shopping center at the corner of Mill and Rancho in Colton, CA has perplexed me for a long time, and I think I finally found the answer in the April 1963 Yellow Pages through the Library of Congress.

There isn't an exact address but unless the location was on another corner and has since been demolished, it has to be this building. One unit has an old mosaic wall, maybe a drug store like Recall?

Since the Stater Bros store closed, this complex probably isn't long for this world. Probably soon to be another massive apartment building.

Sorry for resurrecting a long-dead thread, but since this is my first post in a long time, I didn't want to sound redundant.

2068 (North) Rancho Avenue: https://www.newspapers.com/article/the- ... 160928779/

Other notes:
2080 was Martinizing Dry Cleaning...2070 was Mayfair Markets (the predecessor to Gelson's). It appears 2074 was "The Holiday", a restaurant or bar of some sort (looking for attractive women to dance/serve drinks) and 2078 was Charley's Barber Shop. Couldn't find a drug store in the center.

[Mkelly85]

Wow, thank you for providing that link! I figured one of the stores may have been a market since it has a loading dock like others I've seen. Neither have been occupied for as long as I've lived and worked in the area going back 20+ years.

It looks like its days are numbered as a chain link fence has been put up around the entire shopping center that recently included a standalone Stater Bros, now closed.

You can't get away with employment advertising looking for attractive women anymore!