[Rain Man]

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
What toy stores were around when you were growing up?


We had Children's Palace, Toys 'R' Us came around late 80s or so. Children's Palace is long gone, but that is where a lot of my toys came from. A few years ago, my granny redid her porch. Underneath the old porch, we found a HUGE Children's Palace bag. I like to think it held toys for me.

We had BEST too. (long gone ) They had the best catalogue for writing your Dear Santa letters.

Dear Santa, send me everything on pages 100- 110.
Love ya,
CT4

I cannot think of others because I guess we just did not shop there, but my other Clevelanders will remind me.

Ditto to what CT4 said,

In Columbus, Children's Palace was the place to shop, Toys 'R' Us didn't come until the late 80's (matter of fact, the West Broad St. location had Children's Palace and T'R'U side by side competing for business. Guess who won that battle).

After Children's Palace shut down, Media Play (a retail book, movies, and music store) bought all the old Children's Palace buildings in Columbus.

CT4, how could you forget KayBee Toy Store? Nowhere near as good as T'R'U, but had some good merchandise nontheless. Well, I heard they went bankrupt and folded also very recently.