Defunct Store Pillows
Saturn Productions Defunct 80s Home Video Distributor New York City Pillow
by DarkLordPug
$23 $28
Double Feature Video Defunct Video Store Toledo OH Pillow
by GOODEYE
$23 $28
Description: AJ Wright was an American discount retail chain founded in 1998 and owned by TJX Companies. Similar to its sister store T.J. Maxx, AJ Wright offered clothing, home goods, footwear, accessories, fragrances, and giftware at 20% to 70% below regular retail prices. In early 2011, TJX discontinued the AJ Wright chain, making its logo a nostalgic reminder of a bygone era in American retail history. Celebrate the memory of AJ Wright with this vintage-inspired logo design, perfect for fans of defunct retail brands, retro American stores, and classic discount shopping nostalgia.
Description: Remembering the great Filene’s Department Store with their 1960's logo. Filene's was an American department store chain founded by William Filene in 1881. The former Filene's flagship store at Downtown Crossing in Boston is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The success of the original full-line store in Boston, Massachusetts was supplemented by its off-price sister store Filene's Basement in 1908. Filene’s Basement became a much-visited tourist attraction. Starting in 1947, the Boston flagship store held an annual one-day bridal gown sale which was dubbed The Running of the Brides.
Casual Corner - Retro 70s/80s Defunct Clothing Retail Store Pillow
by DarkLordPug
$23 $28
Description: Rink’s Bargain City was a pioneering Ohio-based discount department store chain that flourished from the 1950s through the 1980s. It got its unique name because its very first location was opened in a converted roller skating rink.
Vintage Rinks Bargain City Ohio Discount Department Store Pillow
by GOODEYE
$23 $28
Description: Spark Records was a record label started by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller around 1954 in Los Angeles, California. Artists released on Spark Records included Willy & Ruth, The Sly Fox, Ervin "Big Boy" Groves, and The Robins. Leiber and Stoller eventually decided that while they wanted to write songs and make records, but did not want to deal with the mechanics of publishing records, so they sold the label to Atlantic Records.
Description: Onyx Records, Inc., was a small, independent American record label based in Manhattan, New York, co-founded on July 15, 1971, by Joe Fields (1929–2017) and Don Schlitten (born 1932) and managed by Gentry McCreary (born 1941). Its address was at 160 West 71st Street on the Upper West Side. Other labels with a similar name Onyx Records, an American rockabilly label from the late 1950s, owned by Jerry Winston. The label was known for having recorded The Velours. Onyx International Records, a gospel label
Description: Carson Pirie Scott & Company was a regional department store chain that operating 51 stores in Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. In 1904 the firm moved into a 12-story building on State Street, a beautiful tower designed by the renowned American architect Louis Sullivan. This distinctive building was named a Chicago Historical Landmark in 1959.
Carson Pirie Scott. Department Store. Chicago, Illinois Pillow
by Nostalgia Place
$23 $28
Description: Tetragrammaton Records was an American record label founded in 1968 by music industry executives Roy Silver, Bruce Post Campbell, Marvin Deane, and comedian Bill Cosby. Silver, at the time, was also Cosby's manager. The term "Tetragrammaton" refers to the Hebrew name of God considered by some to be unspeakable (YHWH, or "Yahweh", translated as "Jehovah" in English). The label's most successful act was rock band Deep Purple.
Description: The Emporium was a department store chain headquartered in San Francisco, California, which operated for 100 years—from 1896 to 1996. The flagship location at 835 Market Street, between 4th and 5th Streets, was a destination for generations of northern California shoppers.
The Emporium. Department Store. San Francisco Pillow
by Nostalgia Place
$23 $28
Description: Remembering Halle's Department Store. The official name was The Halle Bros. Co, but we all called it Halle's, The store was used as the location of the fictional department store, Winfred-Louder, in the television series, "The Drew Carey Show". Actress Halle Berry, a native of Cleveland, was named after the store. This and Higbee's were the beloved department stores in Cleveland Ohio in the 50's 60's.and 70's.
Halle's Department Store. Cleveland, Ohio Pillow
by Nostalgia Place
$23 $28
Description: Remembering the great Filene’s Department Store. Filene's was an American department store chain founded by William Filene in 1881. The former Filene's flagship store at Downtown Crossing in Boston is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The success of the original full-line store in Boston, Massachusetts was supplemented by its off-price sister store Filene's Basement in 1908. Filene’s Basement became a much-visited tourist attraction. Starting in 1947, the Boston flagship store held an annual one-day bridal gown sale which was dubbed The Running of the Brides.
Filene's Department Store. Boston, Massachusetts Pillow
by Nostalgia Place
$23 $28
Description: Showcase your inner retro shopping center nerdiness with this vintage 80s style Gold Circle distressed logo. Gold Circle was a discount department store chain founded in 1967 in Columbus, Ohio. In 1984, Gold Circle was notable as the first major discounter to implement chain wide UPC barcode scanning. There was a total of 76 stores when the chain was sold and dismantled in 1988.
Description: Fisher's Big Wheel was a discount department store chain. It was formed in 1939 following the consolidation of the Fisher Dry Goods company and a hardware store called Big Wheel. Fisher's Big Wheel was primarily located in smaller towns which were not already served by other discount retailers. At its peak, the chain comprised more than 100 stores in 8 states. The chain declared bankruptcy in 1993, selling some stores and closing others. Fisher's Big Wheel closed in 1994.
Description: The Birmingham Vulcans were a professional American football team located in Birmingham, Alabama. They were members of the five-team Eastern Division of the World Football League (WFL). The Vulcans, founded in March 1975, played in the upstart league's second and final season in 1975. The team was owned by a group of Birmingham businessmen with Ferd Weil as team president.
Description: I got my I.O.U. at Merry-Go-Round. Starting out as a single boutique selling only blue jeans in Atlanta in 1968, the trendy teen retailer Merry-Go-Round expanded quickly in the 1990s, to eventually 1,500 stores nationwide. By January of 1994, the company filed for bankruptcy and just months later, it closed all 1,500 locations, making it one of the largest retail bankruptcies in history.
Description: Remembering the great Abraham & Straus Department Store in Brooklyn NY. Officially Abraham & Straus but everybody just called it A & S. The company's 841,000-square-foot Brooklyn flagship store was located at 422 Fulton Street in Downtown Brooklyn. In 2003, the Brooklyn Heights Association and the Municipal Art Society put the building on a list of 28 historic buildings in downtown Brooklyn that needed to be protected.
Abraham & Straus. A&S. Department Store. Brooklyn NY Pillow
by Nostalgia Place
$23 $28
Description: Def Soul Records was an R&B-based division of American multinational record label Def Jam Recordings. It was formed in 1996 by Russell Simmons and Kevin Liles to expand R&B and soul music through Def Jam's said genre-related roster following the successes of Montell Jordan and Case.
Coyote Inn Dance Club Western Theme Bar California Vintage Travel Pillow
by DarkLordPug
$23 $28
Casual Corner - 70s/80s Defunct Clothing Retail Store Pillow
by DarkLordPug
$23 $28
Description: Damon Records was a United States record label. Victor "Vic" L. Damon started a recording business, Damon Transcription Laboratory in 1933 in Kansas City (Midland Building at 1221 Baltimore). He later moved the studio to 117 W. 14th Street and operated it, under the name Damon Recording Studios, until retirement in 1973. His assistant, Chuck Chapman, kept the studio running until 1975, then moved into the Cavern Sound facility in Independence, Missouri, for two more years operating as Cavern/Damon.
Description: Show everyone you're a preferred reader in this shirt. On March 4, 1933, Lawrence Hoyt opened a rental library in a leased space inside a Bridgeport, CT department store under the name Walden Book Company. By 1948 it had grown to over 250 locations in various department stores. In 1962, the company opened its first "Waldenbooks" store in the Northway Mall in Pittsburgh, PA. The 1970s were a time of extraordinary growth for Waldenbooks, with new stores opening around the country at the rate of one per week. Waldenbooks had opened its 500th store in 1978 and by 1981 it had become the first bookstore chain to have stores in every state. By the time the company was celebrating its 50th anniversary in 1983, Walden was operating 830 store...
