kraftiekortie wrote:
I’m a 60s/70s kid.
Im before Toys-r-us
Hate to keep correcting you about your own life, but.. no...you are NOT "from before ToysRus".
You, and your childhood, were contemporary with ToysRus.
ToysRUs (under a different name) was founded in 1948, and changed its name to ToysRus in 1957. But it was founded here in Washington DC. So it IS possible that the chain did not muscle into your NYC area until years later.
So It COULD be possible that you, being in NYC, missed out on being "A ToysRus kid".
But it was very much part of my DC area childhood, and were about the same age.
During the Sixties I would see the commercials with the talking giraffes ( big G and Little G) on the cartoon shows I watched, and there was a big store near our neighborhood that remained as a huge landmark long after we moved to other parts of town, and long after I outgrew the store (its near the U of Md where I went to college). Pretty sure that it wasnt until the 2000s that that particular TRU got sold and got repurposed into the charity thrift shop it is now.