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A trip down memory lane - Spencer Gifts

nycmalenycmale Posts: 250
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I remember the days of walking into Spencer's looking for my favorite bands posters, gag gifts and plastic handcuffs. Went back in one recently for the first time in ages and saw they have a full bondage section. When did this transformation take place? Lol

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  • deadendpdeadendp Posts: 10,434
    I think that it was probably always there. We just weren't old enough to know.
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  • FoxyRedLaFoxyRedLa Posts: 4,810
    Spencers is the joke now.
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  • Empty GlassEmpty Glass Posts: 12,329
    FoxyRedLa said:

    Spencers is the joke now.

    Whiny people and those constantly offended will eventually ruin everything
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  • FoxyRedLaFoxyRedLa Posts: 4,810
    I agree empty. Spencers and the CD store were my firsts stops growing up. I'm not easily offended unless I am with my kids.

    I just don't enjoy Spencers anymore. Jokes over for me.
    Oh please let it rain today.
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  • whispering handswhispering hands Posts: 13,527
    I grew out of that store too.. though I used to find some pretty sweet vinyl in there!
  • BentleyspopBentleyspop Posts: 10,664
    whispering hands said:

    I grew out of that store too.. though I used to find some pretty sweet vinyl in there!

    Spencers had vinyl?

    Or are you referring to vinyl clothing and undergarments?
  • whispering handswhispering hands Posts: 13,527
    Bentleyspop said:

    whispering hands said:

    I grew out of that store too.. though I used to find some pretty sweet vinyl in there!

    Spencers had vinyl?

    Or are you referring to vinyl clothing and undergarments?
    Oh no.. there was a vinyl section.. both in Cali stores I went to and here in Co..
  • FoxyRedLaFoxyRedLa Posts: 4,810
    :lol:
    Oh please let it rain today.
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  • lolobugglolobugg BLUE RDGE MTNS Posts: 8,192
    I worked there over a holiday season in 2001.
    I can tell you some funny stories.

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  • mfc2006mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,405
    lolobugg said:

    I worked there over a holiday season in 2001.
    I can tell you some funny stories.

    spill it!
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  • lolobugglolobugg BLUE RDGE MTNS Posts: 8,192
    edited December 2016
    mfc2006 said:

    lolobugg said:

    I worked there over a holiday season in 2001.
    I can tell you some funny stories.

    spill it!
    I would but it isn't all ages appropriate. :lol:

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    2003- Raleigh, NC: Charlotte, NC: Atlanta, GA

    2004- Asheville, NC (hometown show)

    2006- Cincinnati, OH

    2008- Columbia, SC

    2009- Chicago, IL x 2 / Ed Vedder- Atlanta, GA x 2

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  • mfc2006mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,405
    lolobugg said:

    mfc2006 said:

    lolobugg said:

    I worked there over a holiday season in 2001.
    I can tell you some funny stories.

    spill it!
    I would but it isn't all ages appropriate. :lol:
    HAHA!!!
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  • lolobugglolobugg BLUE RDGE MTNS Posts: 8,192
    mfc2006 said:

    lolobugg said:

    mfc2006 said:

    lolobugg said:

    I worked there over a holiday season in 2001.
    I can tell you some funny stories.

    spill it!
    I would but it isn't all ages appropriate. :lol:
    HAHA!!!
    I will just say that it was a misunderstanding of the word "massager" by a customer and the type of massager sold at Spencer Gifts.

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    1998- Atlanta, GA: Birmingham, AL: Greenville, SC: Knoxville, TN

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    2003- Raleigh, NC: Charlotte, NC: Atlanta, GA

    2004- Asheville, NC (hometown show)

    2006- Cincinnati, OH

    2008- Columbia, SC

    2009- Chicago, IL x 2 / Ed Vedder- Atlanta, GA x 2

    2010- Bristow, VA

    2011- Alpine Valley, WI (PJ20) x 2 / Ed Vedder- Chicago, IL

    2012- Atlanta, GA

    2013- Charlotte, NC

    2014- Cincinnati, OH

    2015- New York, NY

    2016- Greenville, SC: Hampton, VA:: Columbia, SC: Raleigh, NC : Lexington, KY: Philly, PA 2: (Wrigley) Chicago, IL x 2 (holy shit): Temple of the Dog- Philly, PA

    2017- ED VED- Louisville, KY

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    2020- Nashville, TN 

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  • F Me In The BrainF Me In The Brain Posts: 31,092
    lolobugg said:

    mfc2006 said:

    lolobugg said:

    mfc2006 said:

    lolobugg said:

    I worked there over a holiday season in 2001.
    I can tell you some funny stories.

    spill it!
    I would but it isn't all ages appropriate. :lol:
    HAHA!!!
    I will just say that it was a misunderstanding of the word "massager" by a customer and the type of massager sold at Spencer Gifts.
    Sounds like that Andrew Dice Clay bit about rubbing his neck, saying how sore it was, and asking his wife if she had that fake dick that he could use.

    We did a test installation a few years ago in a Spencer's location and I was laughing my ass off at the stuff in there. This was not in the Spencer's I grew up going to -- they had some edgy stuff, but not the things I saw this time. I wish they had, would have been even more fun to visit that store.
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  • lolobugglolobugg BLUE RDGE MTNS Posts: 8,192
    F Me In The Brain said:

    lolobugg said:

    mfc2006 said:

    lolobugg said:

    mfc2006 said:

    lolobugg said:

    I worked there over a holiday season in 2001.
    I can tell you some funny stories.

    spill it!
    I would but it isn't all ages appropriate. :lol:
    HAHA!!!
    I will just say that it was a misunderstanding of the word "massager" by a customer and the type of massager sold at Spencer Gifts.
    Sounds like that Andrew Dice Clay bit about rubbing his neck, saying how sore it was, and asking his wife if she had that fake dick that he could use.

    We did a test installation a few years ago in a Spencer's location and I was laughing my ass off at the stuff in there. This was not in the Spencer's I grew up going to -- they had some edgy stuff, but not the things I saw this time. I wish they had, would have been even more fun to visit that store.
    yeah, that was pretty much how it went down.
    the other funny thing was at that time Spencer Gifts was owned by Walt Disney. :lol:
    dirty secrets of Disney.

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    1995- New Orleans, LA  : New Orleans, LA

    1996- Charleston, SC

    1998- Atlanta, GA: Birmingham, AL: Greenville, SC: Knoxville, TN

    2000- Atlanta, GA: New Orleans, LA: Memphis, TN: Nashville, TN

    2003- Raleigh, NC: Charlotte, NC: Atlanta, GA

    2004- Asheville, NC (hometown show)

    2006- Cincinnati, OH

    2008- Columbia, SC

    2009- Chicago, IL x 2 / Ed Vedder- Atlanta, GA x 2

    2010- Bristow, VA

    2011- Alpine Valley, WI (PJ20) x 2 / Ed Vedder- Chicago, IL

    2012- Atlanta, GA

    2013- Charlotte, NC

    2014- Cincinnati, OH

    2015- New York, NY

    2016- Greenville, SC: Hampton, VA:: Columbia, SC: Raleigh, NC : Lexington, KY: Philly, PA 2: (Wrigley) Chicago, IL x 2 (holy shit): Temple of the Dog- Philly, PA

    2017- ED VED- Louisville, KY

    2018- Chicago, IL x2, Boston, MA x2

    2020- Nashville, TN 

    2022- Smashville 

    2023- Austin, TX x2

    2024- Baltimore

  • JK_LivinJK_Livin Posts: 7,365
    The Goldbergs tv show is doing an episode next year dedicated to Spencer's.
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  • BentleyspopBentleyspop Posts: 10,664
    lolobugg said:

    mfc2006 said:

    lolobugg said:

    I worked there over a holiday season in 2001.
    I can tell you some funny stories.

    spill it!
    I would but it isn't all ages appropriate. :lol:
    Is that because they involve vinyl?
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