1989 Service Merchandise

[barengeist.livejournal.com]

This ad ran in October, 1989. They used to carry all sorts of cool stuff.

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ACK! Flashback!!!

[misstia]

i worked at one that was open for not even a year in akron....answering phones....i never quite grasped the concept of the store---as nothing was OUT to pick up, just samples then you had to go over to another counter to wait for them to get things from the back---probably why it failed around here.....

my ACK! FLASHBACK!!! was because whereas i did my job fine, when i took my lunch in the lunch room i would sit and read a book and DID NOT TALK TO OTHERS and apparently they had an issue with that....i wasn't rude to anyone, i just sat in a corner and read a book and ate....i was off the clock, so??? but oh no, i was suppose to sit there and talk to people i had zero in common with....they even gave me a list of suggested conversation topics!!!! top one was 'sports', which i am not a fan of and oh no, i couldn't speak badly about sports!! then there was 'hunting', which i told them i was against, so no, i couldn't do that and a variety of other things i had zero interest in and/or abhorred.....

they did not, for whatever reason, think that i had the right to sit in a corner and read a book while i was off the clock in the lunch room....i was being anti-social---which i am....so i took to eating in my car in the parking lot and they threw a fit over that! so i just told them to basically take a hike! :D

[flummoxicated.livejournal.com]

I think the actual merchandise was kept in the back somewhere and it was delivered on conveyor belts...

[noluck-boston.livejournal.com]

Man I remember them.
I remember the day they closed down at the Square One Mall.

[zorinlynx.livejournal.com]

Wow, I had forgotten how expensive and bulky some video cameras were back then.

I had an 8mm camcorder myself. It was compact, and you'd connect it to the TV to watch your videos. My friends had a VHS-C camcorder; you could take the tape out and put it in a little adapter to watch it on your regular VHS VCR.

It's easy to forget just how clunky things used to be. And I bet back then, people would think back to the 60s and 70s when you had to use actual movie FILM that you had to send out to develop! Oh man, these video cameras are SO convenient! :)

[ponitacupcake.livejournal.com]

I love that Discman!

[lifetaketwo.livejournal.com]

Loved 'em. My first wedding ring came from Service Merchandise in upstate New York. It accidentally got flushed down the toilet a few years later and the marriage itself went down the tubes as well. Not sure why I just went there, lol.