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>all this nostalgia
Fuck yeah. I remember being a kid in the late 90's and early 2000's, we lived in a very rural middle of nowhere area (Dante, VA), and we would always travel to the mall in Bristol, VA (back when it was still around) to get the best stuff.
You had KB Toys (ironically right next to Spencer's) which had awesome stuff. I remember a lot of good toys from there. Digimon, Sailor Moon, Thomas the Tank Engine (hell, toy trains in general were awesome when I was a kid), Army men, Ninja and Western play sets, and various other toys that were awesome.
You also had a Tilt Arcade which was fuckin' awesome and had a lot of cool games, with FYE across from it. I got some cool anime from there, even bought my first hentai from the FYE in Bristol (the best part was that I was 15 at the time and the clerk didn't card me).
B. Dalton Books was there (great selection of manga and RPG books back in the day), and even the fucking Dollar Tree at Bristol Mall was good.
Shame it all closed down. Ironically, the Tilt Arcade was the last childhood store to close down, in early 2015, long after the other stores from my childhood had closed. In late 2015, the entire mall closed down completely and is still up for auction, last I heard.
The Kingsport Mall in Kingsport, Tennessee is still good. No toy store or bookstores, but they still have an arcade, an FYE, and a decent Gamestop.
Damn, nostalgia is a hell of a drug.
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