Vintage Toy Store Pictures Part Eleven

It's time once again to be whisked back to a simplier time, one that was dominated by "Mom and Pop" toy chains and the wonderful, almost chaotic way toys were distributed. Vintage Toy Store Shots Eleven is different from previous entries in that it features only images from 1979, where we are DEEP into a overproliferation of space toys lead predictably by Kenner Star Wars.

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Some non descript ride on goodness.

The check out aisle in Gimbels, I can't help but notice the piles of carded Micronauts and Shogun Warriors figures to the left.

The games aisle, somewhere in 1979 features a lot of quasi-electronic board games.

Note the humungous stack of Wiz Wheels in this photo.

I don't actively collect Star Wars but wow, this picture makes me giddy.

Even a bland shot of a hobby section can't escape George Lucas in 1979.

I wish I could see these Rack Toys better, probably a lot of AHI and Fleetwood items that I'd want to own.

A whole wall of those Spiderman and Hulk banks, no wonder I see them all the time at Flea Markets and Toy Shows!

Look at all them Big Traks!.

Here we have a Woolco toy department in 1979, there is a lot to see including a whole endcap of HG Toys Vega$ role play sets, some Star Case carrying cases for your action figures and a display of Star Wars Play Do, we simply can't escape Star Wars!

A nice aisle of Fisher Price Little People stuff, note the Kenner Tree Tots Light House set on the end cap.

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