Defunct Store Mugs
Description: A raw, distressed vintage emblem design featuring the iconic ant silhouette and curved "RECORDS" text for Anticon Records. Perfect for independent hip-hop fans, underground music lovers, vinyl collectors, and alternative music enthusiasts. Ideal for t-shirts, vinyl stickers, hoodies, poster prints, and tote bags.
Description: A classic retro design featuring the iconic "Vee-Jay" cursive script typography. A tribute to the legendary American record label famous for blues, jazz, gospel, and early rock 'n' roll music history. Perfect for vinyl collectors, music nerds, vintage record fans, and audiophiles. Ideal for t-shirts, hoodies, vinyl stickers, poster prints, and tote bags.
Description: A raw and unique vintage record label aesthetic design featuring a retro laboratory apparatus paired with the bold text "BIZARRE". Perfect design for vinyl collectors, indie record label fans, obscure music lovers, underground rock enthusiasts, and audiophiles. Looks killer on t-shirts, vinyl stickers, poster prints, hoodies, and tote bags.
Description: Price Club was a warehouse store chain, founded by Sol Price in San Diego, California. Price devised the Price Club concept in 1975 after being forced out of FedMart, another retail chain he founded. Price and a few of his friends put up $2.5 million in capital to open the first Price Club on July 12, 1976 in San Diego. Price Club would eventually merge with one of its competitors and the combined company would go on to become the global leader in the wholesale shopping club space with more than 800 warehouses worldwide as of 2021.
Description: Lord & Taylor was the oldest-surviving department store chain in the United States. The company operated full-line department stores from 1826 until it filed for bankruptcy in 2020. The following year, in 2021, it closed all its brick-and-mortar stores. Saadia Group acquired the Lord & Taylor intellectual property and relaunched the e-commerce website later that same year.
Description: Faithfully re-created logo from the beloved and now defunct Camelot Music store screened onto high quality cotton t-shirt. Camelot Music was a leading mall-based retailer of prerecorded music and accessories and was one of the largest music retailers in the United States based on store count. As of May 31,1998, the company operated 455 stores in 37 states nationwide under two brand names: Camelot Music, founded in 1956 in Massillon, Ohio, by Paul David and his brother Robert David. Operating 305 stores with a significant store base concentration in the Midwest and Southeast regions of the United States; and The Wall, operating 150 stores primarily in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions of the United States.
Description: Be the king of your own castle with the high fashion, 80's inspired Chess King shirt. Founded in 1968, Chess King was a clothing retailer whose concept was a teen shop with highly identifiable stores that had bold coloring and designs aimed at the 12-to-20 male market. In November 1995, the Chess King chain was closed.
Description: A cool distressed monochrome graphic for "Satellite Records" featuring cosmic stars and a retro satellite probe. Perfect design for vinyl collectors, indie record store fans, underground music lovers, DJ aesthetics, and retro rock enthusiasts. Looks awesome on t-shirts, vinyl stickers, posters, hoodies, and tote bags.
Description: A classic retro design featuring the iconic yellow "Starday RECORDS" script and three stars. Celebrating the historic record label famous for bluegrass, rockabilly, and classic country music history. Perfect design for vinyl collectors, music history enthusiasts, rockabilly fans, and vintage record lovers. Ideal for t-shirts, hoodies, vinyl stickers, poster prints, and tote bags.
Description: Varsity Records was one of two labels that comprised the United States Record Company; Royale Records was the other. Eli Oberstein created the USRC in the summer of 1939, shortly after he left an executive position at RCA Victor. Varsity was considered a "budget" label, specializing in popular music and selling records for 35 cents each. Royale was more expensive, at 75 cents a record, and specialized in classical music.
Description: Remembering the much-loved Wanamaker’s Department Store, in Philadelphia. John Wanamaker Department Store was one of the first department stores in the United States. Founded by John Wanamaker, it was influential in the development of the retail industry including offering the first restaurant to be located inside a department store as well as being the first department store with electrical illumination (1878) and the first to use price tags. And in pop culture much of the 1987 movie Mannequin was filmed at Wanamaker's as was the 1991 sequel, Mannequin Two: On the Move. The Wanamaker's flagship store in Center City, with its famous organ and eagle from the St. Louis World's Fair, was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1978.
Wanamaker’s Department Store. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Mug
by Nostalgia Place
$13 $18
Description: Launched in 1974, Power Records’ iconic Book & Record sets paired vibrant comic books with immersive audio on 7" or 12" vinyl records. Featuring sound effects, music, and voice acting, these sets brought stories to life for a generation of kids. Today, complete sets in good condition are rare and highly sought-after by collectors due to their nostalgic appeal and cultural significance. Production continued into the early 1980s, leaving behind a treasured legacy of multimedia storytelling.
Description: In 1906 the first "W. T. Grant Co. 25 Cent Store" opened in Lynn, Massachusetts. Modest profit, coupled with a fast turnover of inventory, allowed the stores to grow to almost $100 million annual sales by 1936. By the time Grant died in 1972 at age 96, his chain of W. T. Grant Stores had grown to almost 1,200. At the company's end, headquarters were atop One Astor Plaza, a prominent building of New York City's skyline on Times Square. Grant's stores were slower than others to adapt to the growth of the suburbs and the change in shopping habits that this entailed, and the attempt to correct this was belated. W. T. Grant's bankruptcy in 1976, which was the then-second biggest in US history.
