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Zayre

Overall Rating:Average Rating (2.83) based on 6 ratings

Ames Corporation-owned department store franchise killed by Wal-Mart in the early 90s. Known for its flower-red logo and bright colors. (Add picture)

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pppatski (0)
03/08/2006
We used to go to the one at 11th west of Cicero avenue in Oak lawn, IL. What a dive. It was always a mess. I don't think anyone was surprised when it closed. Does anyone remember the Treasury stores?0
mrfred8 (0)
11/17/2005
man, those places were dumps.0
OKCRay (0)
08/07/2005
Zayre ruled! I remember the one on 41st and Ashland in Chicago... we went there all the time! Wow... those [email protected]$$ pink ZAYRE letters that spanned the entire length of the building, the coin-operated kiddie rides as you left the store... the stuff childhood was made of... that was ZAYRE in a nutshell. I also remember the other gone/primarily forgotten discount stores in Chicagoland... among those being Community, Korvettes, Turn Style and Topps, but none of them compared to ZAYRE!!!0
Shopper6 (0)
07/18/2005
Back in the 1970s, before there was Wal-Mart, there were lots of discount department stores besides Zayre. Zayre became Ames, which then became extinct around 2001. I grew up in the Chicago area, and I remember shopping at a place called Turnstyle, which then became Venture (all the Ventures closed in the Chicago area in the mid- to late-1990s). I also remember a store called Community in Park Ridge, and a chain of stores called Korvette's (which had the funkiest '70s murals on the store's walls. There was a mustachioed man in a pimp hat pictured in the mural and it used to give me nightmares as a kid). My mom bought a McCloud style suede and lambs wool collar coat at Korvette's once when I was a kid. Goldblatt's also was a happening place in the '70s; I got a bendable Rocky the squirrel toy (from Rocky and Bullwinkle fame) there when I was in second grade. There also was kind of a creepy discount department store called The Treasury near Golf Mill shopping center. Weirdly enough, I still have an old hinged velvet jewelry box from there that says The Treasury inside. My mother took me to Kmart in Wheeling practically on a daily basis, where I could be placated with a coke slurpee and a bag of stale popcorn. As you can see, I spent much of my childhood being dragged from store to store by my shopping-addicted mother and grandmother, honing the shopping skills I have today. 1
Indio70 (0)
04/28/2004
As a kid I can remember they had the HEEEEY! Fonzie shirts and the DY-NO-MITE J.J. T-shirts, but I wasn't much of a consumer when I was six years old...1
CastleBee (81)
08/22/2003
I wasn't a bit surprised when this place went out. It was like a sub-KMart. Not missed.2
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