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Spencer's...do you like that store? Or did you before? (1 Viewer)

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I just found out the mall I'm going to later today has a Spencer's.  Yes...Spencer's.

I have fond memories of shopping there 20-25 years ago (posters of the chicks in bikinis, prank/funny items, etc).

Great store.

Anyone else a fan?

:excited:

 
Like others have said, loved it as a teen, haven't been inside of one in 25+ years.

My local mall has one.  I'm pretty sure my teen age boys haven't discovered it yet, or else I wouldn't have seen them since.

 
Bull Dozier said:
Like others have said, loved it as a teen, haven't been inside of one in 25+ years.

My local mall has one.  I'm pretty sure my teen age boys haven't discovered it yet, or else I wouldn't have seen them since.
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I'll go one better - my kids don't care about or ever go to the mall.  The days of hanging out at the mall are dead in the Amazon Generation.  Now it's Starbucks or other coffee shops.

 
I liked it as a teen and then recently went back into one to try to find a Metallica shirt for my 6yo (it was his #1 wanted Hanukkah gift).  I didn't like it now.  Perhaps I'm too old.

 
I think last time I went to one was shortly after high school and bought an inflatable sheep and knee pads for my buddy's bachelor party

 
Hadn't been in one since the mid 90's until 3 years ago but still a fan. My wife and I went there for bachelor/bachelorette gag decorations and spent about 40 mins checking everything out. Went again this past October and bought some fake dog poop for my ? head Halloween costume.

 
AAABatteries said:
I'll go one better - my kids don't care about or ever go to the mall.  The days of hanging out at the mall are dead in the Amazon Generation.  Now it's Starbucks or other coffee shops.
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My kids have gone to the mall to hang out a couple of times, but agree that it isn't the hangout it used to be.  I think they do it once, get the same enjoyment we did as kids, but realize they have better ways of spending their time.  Our generation didn't.

Here's my Spencers story I think of whenever I hear the name.  I was hanging out at the mall with two friends.  Based on who they were, we were either freshmen or sophmores in high school.  On a display rack was one of those heads you could squeeze and the eyes would bug out.  It was probably the size of a softball.  We were taking turns squeezing it  (oh, the fun back then).  Then one of my friends says "you know what this feels like?  It feels like a boob."  The other friend says "ya, it totally does!"  I take it next and give it a couple of squeezes, trying to take mental notes so i can remember this feeling and if I ever had the chance to squeeze a boob, I could remember if they were similar.  Just a few short years later I could finally make the comparison, but alas I had long forgotten.

 
I actually was in one this past weekend. My 13 year old daughter needed to buy one of her friends some Rick and Morty socks as a birthday present and (despite their website saying something different) they didn’t have them in stock in the store.

We went next door to Hot Topic and they did have them. These two stores are always right next to one another in every mall in Colorado oddly enough. 

 
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Courtjester said:
I actually was in one this past weekend. My 13 year old daughter needed to buy one of her friends some Rick and Morty socks as a birthday present and (despite their website saying something different) they didn’t have them in stock in the store.

We went next door to Hot Topic and they did have them. These two stores are always right next to one another in every mall in Colorado oddly enough. 
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I want Rick and Morty socks... and I'm in Colorado.  You should buy some for me.

 
Ohhhhhh man - this WAS the reason to go to the mall when you were 12 and under (then it became where to meet and meet up with girls).  I grew up in the golden age of malls.  A place called the Salem Mall was the first to open up around the Dayton, OH area that I recall - it was 1966.  It was very cool, with rock fountains and lots of palm-like greenery.  

The two best places (outside of Alladin's Castle) were Spencer Gifts and Hickory Farms.  Maybe food court (and they had a full Cassano's Pizza restaurant, but couldn't get my mom to commit to go there as often as I would like.  

Spencer Gifts - was all about the posters (especially black light) and black lights.  I yearned after the "play with the music" light boxes and finally got one when I was around 13.  There was always some bathing suit type posters but at the time - there wasn't any sex toys and really explicit stuff that is in them now.  I had 2 black lights and several black light posters from there to go along with my Johnny Miller, Pete Maravich and Connie Hawkins posters.  

black lights  - hell, I think they cost this much or more way back then ...kind of calculators ..

1st black light poster I bought at Spencers

2nd black light poster I bought (couple of years later exploring the devil weed) - my parents did not know I had partaken but didn't much care for the incense I would burn all the time.

Everyone made crappy incense burners when we had ceramics in 8th grade art class.  

Hickory Farms - THE best free sample place ever.  They had a permanent store with a big open front entry - not the dinky little mid-aisle stand with the cellphone case guys.  The beef stick was an expensive treat that my mom used to always get around Christmas but rarely other parts of the year.  You couldn't get anything like the beef log at the supermarket in those days or anything like the sweet-hot mustard they had.  

The big thing for me was the daiquiri and whiskey sour hard candies (also had sloe gin and tom collins).  These things were awesome.  Even better than the daiquiri ice at Baskins.  I can't even find pictures of these ...they must have tried to erase all evidence  :D .

Also - heavily used this when watching tv in the winter.  Approximately 1 in every 3 households had one just like it. 

 
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Binky The Doormat said:
Ohhhhhh man - this WAS the reason to go to the mall when you were 12 and under (then it became where to meet and meet up with girls).  I grew up in the golden age of malls.  A place called the Salem Mall was the first to open up around the Dayton, OH area that I recall - it was 1966.  It was very cool, with rock fountains and lots of palm-like greenery.  

The two best places (outside of Alladin's Castle) were Spencer Gifts and Hickory Farms.  Maybe food court (and they had a full Cassano's Pizza restaurant, but couldn't get my mom to commit to go there as often as I would like.  
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I started dating this girl in 1991 that I would marry in 1994. She was from Dayton and I was from Cleveland. On one of my initial trips down to visit her she tells me we are going to go to a mall she doesn’t go to very often. It was Salem Mall and it seemed like it had been overtaken by the gangsta type. Since neither my wife to be nor I were the gangsta type, we didn’t stay long, and I doubt we went into Spencer’s on that occasion. 

To this day, my wife’s family believes that Cassano’s is the best pizza. Probably because no one from her immediate family lives in Dayton anymore, so they don’t get it but maybe once a year while visiting the extended family but they love it. 

My wife just informed me, she was a Marion’s Pizza fan while the rest of her family was Cassano’s.

 
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Beef Ravioli said:
I started dating this girl in 1991 that I would marry in 1994. She was from Dayton and I was from Cleveland. On one of my initial trips down to visit her she tells me we are going to go to a mall she doesn’t go to very often. It was Salem Mall and it seemed like it had been overtaken by the gangsta type. Since neither my wife to be nor I were the gangsta type, we didn’t stay long, and I doubt we went into Spencer’s on that occasion. 

To this day, my wife’s family believes that Cassano’s is the best pizza. Probably because no one from her immediate family lives in Dayton anymore, so they don’t get it but maybe once a year while visiting the extended family but they love it. 

My wife just informed me, she was a Marion’s Pizza fan while the rest of her family was Cassano’s.
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I heard quite a bit about the gangsta activity in the 90s at the Salem Mall.  Really bad ...lots of shootings as I recall (had been living in Cuyahoga Falls since early '84).

Also - I grew up with Cassano's and still love it ...but Marion's kicks its ###.  

 
Binky The Doormat said:
Ohhhhhh man - this WAS the reason to go to the mall when you were 12 and under (then it became where to meet and meet up with girls).  I grew up in the golden age of malls.  A place called the Salem Mall was the first to open up around the Dayton, OH area that I recall - it was 1966.  It was very cool, with rock fountains and lots of palm-like greenery.  
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As Ravioli said, Salem Mall was a dump by the late 80's.  

We would take the RTA from Kettering to the Dayton Mall.  Spencer's was always a must-do, but the arcade was where it was happening.  Right next to it was one of those places you could record yourself singing karaoke, or even do a music video.

 
My last trip to "the mall time forgot" was some obscure little mall that had a Spencers and still had an arcade.  Boy, I had forgotten so much of what was in those things.  I ran over to a Dragon's Lair game and dropped a quarter and....nothing.  I forgot that was a .50 cent game.  

So I went to the counter to get change and, lo and behold, they didn't give change at the counter.  You still had to use the machine that converted bills into quarters and tokens.   Tokens, I tell you!  

I was one Kelly LeBrock "weird Science" moment away from never leaving that Twilight Zone episode of a mall.  

 
True story: I was walking around the mall on Dec. 22nd, grabbing last minute items.  I decided to wander into Spencer's for a bit of fun.  As I got to the back of the store, there was a couple arguing quietly.  As I got nearer, it became evident they were arguing about the size of a certain adult toy.  She seemed insistent the bigger toy would be more to their liking, and the husband was trying to persuade her to purchase a toy with less girth.  It was a very funny private moment.

 
AAABatteries said:
I'll go one better - my kids don't care about or ever go to the mall.  The days of hanging out at the mall are dead in the Amazon Generation.  Now it's Starbucks or other coffee shops.
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