In its heyday, which mall store was cooler?

[MrCoffee]

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. lol-

I actually bought some clothes at Chess King...and must have thought I looked pretty kewl... :wow:

[MrCoffee]

4. Were they Z. Cavaricci pants?

Please let them be Z. Cavaricci pants!

[Fire Walk With Me]

5. No, but I will admit to sleeveless shirts.

:scared:

[Phillycat]

30. With the little label right on the groin!

Totally subtle! :rofl:

[MrCoffee]

34. HEY YOU!

Long time no see! How's London treating you?

[Phillycat]

35. What's up, motherfucker?

:hug:

I'm in fucking Virginia at the moment, waiting for my permanent visa to come through. I moved in August, came back in November after my tourist visa expired, and I've been here ever since. Supposedly it's finally going to come through next week, we shall see!

But London is cool. I'm looking forward to getting back there! And also, SEEING MY HUSBAND! I miss him!

[MrCoffee]

36. Wuss. You should have gone all illegal alien over there.

Quit fucking Virginia, she's not that kind of girl.


Hey, whatever the reason (forced estrangement from your husband, banishment from the country), it's good to see you around these parts!

:hug: :hi:

[motely36]

2. I bought stuff at Chess King

I think it is the main reason that I am gay. :P

[AlCzervik]

3. Chess king, home of the parachute pants and Michael Jackson jackets.

i worked in a clothes store directly across from Chess King and Tello's.

[flvegan]

6. Each in their own time were/are suckingly horrible.

[MrCoffee]

9. You'd be singing a different tune if "Merry-Go-Round" was a choice.

[last_texas_dem]

7. Hot Topic

Only 'cause "Chess King" was slightly ahead of my time, while I did buy a Led Zeppelin shirt or two from Hot Topic when I was in high school.

My only memory of the "Chess King" store is that ther was still one in the mall where I grew up when I was about seven years old (1991). Intrigued by the name, I remember asking my dad about it and him telling me that it was a clothing store for black people. (I doubt he meant anything overtly racist by it or anything; in Beaumont, TX, I'd figure the bulk of their clientele probably *was* black men.)

[LaraMN]

8. One of my still-favorite dresses is from Hot Topic.

I wear it every time I want to accessorize with penis antlers.

[LSdemocrat]

10. I have never heard of Chess King

Were they regional? I've never seen one here in St. Louis.

[scheming daemons]

11. That's what made it so cool.... none of the riff-raff knew about it.

;-)

[JVS]

18. Oh really. This article makes it sound like a riff-raff magnet

http://the80srule.blogspot.com/2006/01/and-what-of-chess-king.html

[blondeatlast]

12. The original Express; when it was cheap and ahead of the curve.

I got the best damn blue, loose, empire waistleopard print dress, rubber bracelets to go with a nice pair of pumps with socks there for about $20.

I worked at a fashionable department store, but the fun clothes came from the original Express back when fashion had a sense of humor.

[AlCzervik]

14. i still have some thing from the original express and they've held up well.

that used to be a great store, same thing with the Limited.

[blondeatlast]

15. Present day Express has the only jeans that both fit me well and look good, otherwise,

forget it--but I LOVED them back in the day.

I loved The Limited's "Kenzo" line, too.

[Left Is Write]

13. Express, The Limited, Contempo.

[Tabasco_Dave]

16. Hickory Farms

Was my favorite mall store in the 70's. Their smoked cheddar and summer sausage was great but now it's all processed shit. You can literally taste the chemicals in the food.:puke:

[JVS]

17. Oh yeah. Chilling at the hickory farms!

[tigereye]

19. Spencer Gifts - the tacky but wonderful head-type shop

obviously I am somewhat older than you! :rofl:

[JVS]

21. You know, when I was a kid I thought that the day would come when I would have an apartment...

and that this apartment would be extensively furnished with Spencer's merchandise. Then I turned 14 and realized that even I was too mature for that.

I would like to get myself a foam dome though.

[tigereye]

22. it was really fun at the time, with all the black light posters - seemed so

exotic when you were 13-14.
rofl:

[JVS]

29. By my time the black light stuff was mostly at telaropa, but if you wanted neon shit and crude...

humor, you know like an ashtray that looks like a toilet, Spencer's was the place to go.

[Aristus]

20. I liked Hot Topic. Any place where you could buy a Soviet-made gas mask was kind of cool.

B-)

[gmoney]

23. The County Seat

The all blue-jeans store in the mall... maybe it was just a local thing.

[LibDemAlways]

24. For a while the local mall had an "As Seen on TV" store

that sold all the crap otherwise only available on tacky infomercials. I bet if they were still around they'd be doing massive Shamwow business!

[Midlodemocrat]

25. You left out Thom McAn.

:cry:

[Phillycat]

31. OMG. Never thought I'd see that name again.

:rofl:

[no name no slogan]

26. No love for JW (aka Jeans West)?

That was the place for my Brittania Jeans in the 1970s, and my angular glam duds in the 1980s.

[rucky]

27. Chess King had knockoff Member's Only jackets for $10

and $22 parachute pants.

What else do you need to know?

[ceile]

28. Other-Spencer's n/t

[datasuspect]

32. a tern for the wurst

[RetroLounge]

33. I liked Chess King

But the girls working at Merry-go-round were hotter...

RL

[Kali]

37. I remember chess king,

and have no clue about hot topic.

Old and clueless, obviously. Oh I also remember when the GAP was new and you could still get Levi's there. Big bells.