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Vintage Toy Store Pictures Index

vintage toy store pictures

One of the highlights of this site is creating galleries of toy and department stores from the past. Many of these are gone now but not forgotten and it's such a happy memory:

ALWAYS BUYING VINTAGE TOY STORE PHOTOS FROM THE 1970s or 80s! IF YOU WORKED FOR MEGO, KENNER, HASBRO, IDEAL, REMCO, AHI, LARAMI, GALOOB OR YOUR FAMILY OWNED A TOY STORE. I'D PAY GOOD MONEY FOR ANY PHOTOS OF VINTAGE TOY STORES AND DISPLAYS. PLEASE CONTACT ME!




PART ONE

Our First Foray into Vintage Toy Stores reveals such memorable landmarks as Dispensa's Castle of Toys and T,G &Y's. We look inside a Toy City location and see an entire endcap of vintage Star Wars items in a Kaybee Toys, not to mention the Intellivision and Atari section of a Child World.

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PART TWO

The theme this time is "Sci Fi" as we start out with an in depth look at the Macy's toy department circa 1978, lots of Kenner Star Wars product to be seen. Vintage shots of a Ben Franklin and a Circus, then some more department aisle store shots featuing vintage Star Wars and Charlies Angels figures. Talk about a full circle.

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PART THREE

Part three in our series kicks things off with a double blast of vintage Star Wars toys followed by a whole aisle filled with G.I. Joe and Mego World's Greatest Superheroes. The rest is a series of ailse shots featuring everything from vintage Lego to Tonka trucks, it's a big wonderful pot pourri of vintage toy goodness.

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PART FOUR

We get a few different looks at a Circus World store in part four, one complete with a window display of Mego Superheroes, Ben Holcomb provides us with an awesome shot of a boy's toy aisle circa 1980 complete with boxed Shogun Warriors. We also take a long look at a Kiddie City store circa 1973 and remember such forgotten retailers as 3D, Elmore and JL Hudson just to name a few.

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Vintage toy store pictures part five

PART FIVE

Part Five gives us a great view of some Star Wars 3 packs, just sitting on the shelves! We also get to see many unsold Aurora Monster kits ripe for the plucking in 1975, a Mego World's Greatest Superheroes Display case resting in between an entire aisle of G.I. Joe Adventure Team Toys, a look at a Children's Palace store and some shots from Gimbel's Toy Department in 1980.

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Vintage toy store pictures part six

PART SIX

Lots of new images including some nice shots of Halloween counters and some shots of toy retailers from 1983, lots of stuff for the Atari and Intellivision crowd. This segment includes some oddball pics from the early eighties including a tone of Smurfs and Annie Merchandise and a store appearance by a Monchichi!

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Vintage toy store pictures part seven

PART SEVEN

Tons of fresh new images for part seven, including an end cap of Aurora Monster Models, a stunning display of Shogun Warriors, a scary visit from Reggedy Anne, Big Jim campers galore, GI Joe and Mego dolls, dinky toys and some Lego. Our latest but hopefully not last installment in this fun series.

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Vintage toy store pictures part eight

PART EIGHT

Part eight starts off in Chicago in 1980 for the opening of a "Toys by Rizzi" location and then hops across the pond to the UK for displays of vintage Action Man and Six Million Dollar Man dolls, it's another fun blast into the past.

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Vintage toy store pictures part nine

PART NINE

Part nine looks at the Sci Fi invasion to toy stores due to the onset of Star Wars and also gives us a rare glimpe of a legendary Heroes World shop in 1982. All this and walls of rack toys including AHI superhero items and Zymlex Metal Men, green machines and enough Nerf to safely stop your fall..

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Vintage toy store pictures part nine

PART TEN

Part ten gives us rare shots of shelves brimming with Star Wars, Lego, TOnka, Muppets, Intellivision games and there's even an appearance by Wonder Woman, live and in person! Part Ten will have you surfing Ebay for things you forgot..

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Vintage toy store pictures part nine

PART ELEVEN

Part eleven takes use to Space:1979 with a series of shots exclusively from the year 1979 and capturing some of the best moments of the "Sci Fi Explosion" which notably includes shots of Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica merchandise, also look for displays of Big Trax, Star Bird and Spider-Man stuff as well..

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Vintage toy store pictures part twelve

PART TWELVE

We've stumbled upon toynerd gold with this collection of former Mattel employee photographs which are all "back in the day" store shots featuring Hot Wheels, Barbie, Battlestar Galactica, Mego Dukes of Hazzard, Heroes in Action and a heck of a lot more! Thank heaven for Polaroids...

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Vintage toy store pictures part thirteen

PART THIRTEEN

We've stumbled upon toynerd gold with this collection of former Mattel employee photographs which are all "back in the day" store shots featuring Hot Wheels, Barbie, Battlestar Galactica, Fisher Price Adventure People, Mattel Slime and a heck of a lot more! Thank heaven for Polaroids...

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Vintage toy store pictures part thirteen

PART FOURTEEN

It's a real goody bag this time including Hot Wheels, Masters of the Universe, GI Joe, Infaceables, Shogun Warriors, Star Wars Power of the Force, Thundercats, Micronauts and much more..

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Vintage toy store pictures part thirteen

PART FIFTEEN

It's a wild ride this time including two amazing Six Million Dollar man and Bionic Woman displays, Legend of the Lone Ranger end cap, a Japanese toy store featuring Godzilla and Ultra Seven, the Mattel Sunshine Family and more!.

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Vintage toy store pictures part sixteen

PART FIFTEEN

Part sixteen is all about the two B's BIONIC and Barbie as we look at some drooly worthy displays for the Kenner Six Million Dollar Man lines and Mattel's fashion doll.

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Vintage toy store pictures part seventeen

PART SEVENTEEN

Vintage Toy Store Photos Volume 17 covers the US and Canada this time and features appearances by Big Jim, Kenner Bionic Woman, Barbie, Shogun Warriors, Mego Star Trek, Space:1999, Ideal Star Team, Mattel Donnie and Marie and Kenner Star Wars..

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