The BEST Christmas catalog was the BEST! I would read that thing like it was a novel. But, funny, I never got any of the things that I put on my Christmas list from BEST.
We also used to have a toy store called Lionel Kiddie City. Their motto was "Lionel Kiddie City will turn that frown upside down." They went out of business too. My grandmother bought me a pogo stick (do kids still play with those?) from there one summer. How 'bout I was out on that pogo stick? That was my little Merceds Benz and I rode that thing all over.
Aaah, sweet nostalgia!!