Two Guys Department Store Commercial

[TheSmoosh21]

I am most surprised at how expensive things were at a discount store. This commercial is 30 years old and you can buy those items today for the same or even less money at wal-mart. That is really 0% inflation over 30 years on kitchen goods

[MrBluefreako]

i remember my brother and i would go there all the time. the one in rochester, ny (greece) used to love the small arcade with the bowling alley would love to turn back the clock and relive those days

[soupdujur]

@MrBluefreako

yeah arcade was cool and get a pretzel and slurpee

[thatmuse76]

There was a Two Guys on Lincoln Highway outside of Lancaster that closed in the late 70's/early 80's. Think Jamesway took over half of the Two Guys store that was there while the other half remained empty. Now that Jamesway is gone, I have no clue what is there now.

[greenranger8100]

Two Guys in Hackensack near Riverside Square Mall. Went there all the time with my parents. Alexander's on Route 4 was another store we always went to.

[giordhe1]

Wow!  Memories....

[MrSloika]

My parents would shop at the Two Guys stores in Garfield and Lodi, NJ(Route 17). When I was a kid, you'd get teased constantly if you went to school dressed in some Two Guys "specials".

[tjfreak]

There was one between Tonawanda & Amherst on Maple rd. (or Brighton rd)

I think Brighton started at NFB. This was in the mid- late 60's in Western NY

I delivered papers & remember the ads. (Inserts)

[280zxcowboys]

I remember the one in Brick, NJ. Parents shopped there all the time.

[MikeRambo]

I remember three different Two Guys location. One in NE Philadelphia, the second in Bensalem, PA, and the third in Langhorne (Levittown), PA. The Bensalem location has since been demolished and replaced by Kohl's. 2/3 of the Ne Philadelphia has been demolished and replaced by Best Buy and American Signature Furinture. The Langhorne location is now "The Dump", with the old "Jefferson Ward" sign frontage.

[JohnMLMoore]

I remember the Two Guys in City of Commerce. They had a commercial that had "beep beep n beep beep" in the jingle.

[nanlisa]

There were two Two Guys stores in Delaware County, PA (where I was born and raised and I still live here): in Broomall and in Glenolden.

[foxxyloxx]

I predict nightmares of a creepy human scarecrow trying to hock me home appliances I don't need in my near future. =/

[Capnsmirky]

I bought my first record at Two Guys in East Brunswick. "Revolver." $3.99. 

[honnybun14220]

First it was (In buffalo NY) Two Guys, then Gold Circle, the Hills and Ames took half each, now most of those store fronts are empty or something totally different. I miss stores like this.......

[zod65]

The closest Two Guys to me was over in Reading,PA.I believe it was off of US 222.

[wnychevy09]

We had 2 locations in the Buffalo area- Amherst and Cheektowaga-both closed in the 1970's.

[gsnfan]

The Two Guys in Broomall became Jefferson Ward, then Bradlees, and now it's a Giant Food Store.

[heine71]

Halloween and Christmas?

[puck30]

Did anybody here ever work in Warehouse 7 behind the East Hanover store on Rt. 10?

[mallyrose87]

That is quite a creepy scarecrow....but I do love the jingle!

[Jefgg]

I remember a lot of Two Guys stores in Northern New Jersey in the 70s.  A lot of the locations became Bradlees after Two Guys went out of business.

When I was in junior high school the big insult was "I heard a bunch of stores are named after your parents --- Two Guys". And those were fighting words.

[steviep5651]

Used to go to the one on Rt. 18 in E. Brunswick. They used to have big sales in the warehouse next to that store. I can still smell the Sabrett hot dog cart that was in the vestibule when you walked in. My uncle used to work in the Harrison store on the grocery side. I still have an old ink pricing gun that he gave me.

[tczen]

@steviep5651 I lived in S.R. I went to 2guys in E.B. all the time. I remember the hot dog guy, the mini bowling arcade, the roped off section on sundays . . . .

[Dontana69]

I remember the one in Rockaway New Jersey, Next to ..Rockaway Sales!

[Dontana69]

I remember Two Guys in Rockaway New Jersey!!

[PinkStupidity]

I remember this place! My aunt used to work there back in the early 80's when I was a kid. But it was in NY. Somewhere on Long Island.

[witchman67]

Alexanders,Bradlees, Dean's, Halloran's, Gertz, Gimbels, Mays, Bambergers, Jamesway, Conway, Korvettes, Playworld, NBO, Antonivich, Two Guys, TSS, Record World, Musicland, MusicHut, Herman's World of Sporting Goods, Crazy Eddie's, Nobody Beats the Wiz.

Anybody else remember any other long-gone chain stores?

[Dontana69]

@witchman67 nope, looks like you covered all of em!

[THEbchat]

@witchman67

Silo, Jefferson Ward, Woolco, Ames, Clover, Woolworth, Kiddie City

[TransAmManny]

Torrance location became a FedCo, then Target.

[68lincoln]

Two Guys was my favorite department store for toys when I was a kid growing up in the 1960s. We shopped at the Two Guys in East Brunswick, NJ. Good memories.

[FritziRitz]

good old route 18 two guys in jersey.....even had an arcade....opened the lizard cage in the pet dept...reptiles all over the store!!! What fun....

[glynnracing79]

@68lincoln i remember going to the one in brick town nj when i was a kid

[p8ryot]

@glynnracing79

I use to go to that one when I lived in Brick too. I have a lot of memories. My mom use to work there where they sold the "potato knish" near the center entrance. I was visiting Brick last May for the first time in over 30 years. It's  ShopRight and a few other stores now. Expanded too with a nice Bagel shop at the Brick Blvd side. Remember Rickles and R&S across the street. Brick Lanes Bowling Alley was gone, so sad, so many memories gone from the 70's.

[glynnracing79]

@p8ryot i just moved back to brick.been living in az for 15 years.yea old bowling alley is gone.now its on the backside of brick plaza.rickels has been gone for atleast 25 years.you remember nichols and grand union,caldor,comsumers,burger chef, poor boys subs,all the movie theaters,laurlton circle....all gone.to bad.so many memories at all those places too.bradlees closed about the same time as two guys.they just leveled the old bradlees/foodtown shopping center.

[p8ryot]

@p8ryot

It was nice to see it all, I moved to Anchorage, AK 32 years ago and re-lived some memories around Brick and Two guys. I remember seeing classics at the old Laurelton Drive In. It's a Wal-Mart now. My old schools Lanes Mills, Emma Havens, VMMS, and of course BTHS. Was good to see they're still open

[puck30]

Two Guys was the bomb. I worked in Wharehouse #7 in E. Hanover just before they closed. People use to steal shit left & right out of there. I saw head of security & another exeutive stealing pool tables. Nobody gave a shit. They converted one of the Wharehouses into a Home Depot.

[ffej980]

yes a lot if merchandise fell off of the back of the truck there...i knew a guy who was selling all kinds of stuff he stole from there...not to mention the bigshots from Two Guys who stole more merchandise than you could dream of...

[frankkurdyla]

appliance prices have not changed too much over the years.

[clarkbell]

This is from 1977. That logo looks like the 70's Sears logo!

[2nd2nun1]

OMG! I would never had thought I would ever see these commercials again. My family used to shop at the Two Guys location in Culver City (part of L.A.) on Jefferson Blvd. It's now a Target.

[beaugarsNYC]

I can't believe how that iron was top-of-the-line in those days!

[john33STEW]

that scarecrow is hot

[cheersandbooze4u]

My parents used to shop there when I was a toddler. it's now Target.

[JMFabianoRPL]

Anyone remember the Rt 9 or 18 locations?

[edadam]

rt 9 manalapan, where they sold groceries too. naturally.

[rutgersg]

I still have the photo strip that my brother and I took at the photo booth in the Hackensack store. Funny about the bowling - it did suck but it beat walking around the store with mom and dad.

[38Squid]

WOW! that scarecrow makes that toaster oven magically appear out of thin air! This store kicked ass. I remember going to the Walden ave location (Buffalo NY) as a young kid. They had an awesome arcade area complete with several mini bowling lanes and a bunch of other amusement devices. I really miss that place.

[JamesQMurphy]

Thanks for the trip down memory lane! I remember the Two Guys off Rt. 22 in Union. It was HUGE -- it even had a grocery store and a pet store.

[MrUnidyne]

I used to visit that store on a regular basis (It took me 20 minutes to walk there!). I always remembered the clerks at the Pharmacy department always seemed to be rather bleary eyed. Perhaps they were experimenting with something in the back room.

[dcflava74]

2 guys to me was the original Walmart of the 70,s.

[MrUnidyne]

@dcflava74: You're not that far off the mark,. Two Guys sold just about everything, and even had supermarkets with their own store brand foods.

[TubeNumber3]

I remember them as Two Guys From Harrison, when I was a little kid in North Jersey. That would have been late-1950s. It might have been somewhere along Route 46.

[1975tooto]

Walmart is just a modern day Two-Guys when you look at the physical make-up of the store. one stop shopping! Two guys lost out to the indoor Mall craze in the late 70s-into the 80s. Now it seems that walmart has capitalized on the faze out of the struggling malls,and not to mention the price range differerence on certain items!

[seventiesguru]

i loved two-guys (best store ever) i use to go mainly to the one in west atlantic city and also vineland,n.j.

[journey1975to2009]

I used to go to the one in Marlton, NJ off of Route 73 and 70. It's now a Kohl's.

[tflyer98]

Two Guys Department stores have been converted to mainly strip centers and are owned by Vornado Real estate investment trust. Steve Ross the owner of the company bought out the original owners and since Two Guys owned the land beneath their store the company had a lot of intrinsic value. Warren Buffet was on the board of directors and did very well with the stock.

[tflyer98]

Also Bernie Marcus who started Home Depot once was a top executive at Two Guys / Vornado. Vornado owned a company called Builders Emporium and Bernie Marcus was one of the top guys there.

[Kemruss]

Man, I remember the Two Guys in Woodbridge NJ, they used to have an arcade downstairs...i was young as hell but i remember that place was the bomb....then came Razz Ma Tazz lol

[slappy09]

Thanks for posting this. Brings back a LOT of memories for me. I use to go to Two Guys in Cherry Hill NJ. It's replaced by a Walmart now. I remember this store having a chicken that you play tic tac toe against. I also remember some type of dancing doll puppet that you could control. For some reason I remember it having a grocery store too (could be wrong).

[dyinglikeflies]

Remember the high school rank-out? "I hear they named a store after your parents- Two Guys".

[Naterussell]

We used to have a Two Guys store here in Baltimore. Naturally.

[clarkbell]

When is this from?

[mrmoore1970]

clarkbell:

I believe this aired sometime between 1979-1981, I'm not too sure though, but I know Two Guys closed down sometime 1982 or 1983 here in Philadelphia.

[DirzoRasec]

There was a two guys store in Norwalk, CA (the building still exist, its a indoor swapmeet). What is significant about that location is that its directly across the street (alondra bl.) from the old Excelcior High were part of the movie Grease, among others, was filmed.

[zepula10]

Miss this store! lots of memories. who remembers the bowing alley for a dime arcade? Love there song Naturally:)

[Centaur716]

buffalo, ny

[StukInBuf]

Shortly after my folks and I moved to the Buffalo area, we would go to the Sheridan Drive/Niagara Falls Blvd. location(now TJ Maxx and Best Buy).

The bowling alley game was my fave!

Dear mrmoore1970... thanks a million for posting this Two Guys ad, and helping unleash a flood of memories!

Anyone from Pennsylvania here? Did they have any such stores in Western PA(Erie/Meadville/Pittsburgh)? Thanx.

[jpw]

You're right about the TJ Maxx but there was never a Best Buy there. The last major tenant was MediaPlay. It also held a "Silo" electronics outlet, a drug store, and a few other short-lived places. I still remember the enlarged photos of Niagara Falls above the photo department in Two Guys. . . .

[38Squid]

You know it! Those bowling games were the shit! I was just a little kid, but I remember going to the end of the lane and cheating by knocking the pins down with my hand.

[lawnman05]

Two Guys from Harrison, the best store ever!

[JohnnySpagz]

My favorite store as a kid :) I would love to see other Two Guys commercials :)

[hondolespaul]

There were two other Two Guys commercials on YouTube last year. For some reason, they were removed. I was smart enough to copy this one.

[JohnnySpagz]

I do remember them as well, saved them to my favorites, then they were taken down.

[clarkbell]

Does anyone remember either the Two Guys in Broomall PA or Willow Grove PA?

[mrmoore1970]

I remember these store listed in the Sunday paper (The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Bulletin).

[Frogman11223]

@clarkbell I remember the one in Broomall. We used to shop there all the time growing up. My brother and I would always go to the 'arcade' area and play the jukebox.

[clarkbell]

@Frogman11223 Thanks! All of us are lucky that place didn't become like a Dixie Square Mall... Google that!

[FlyersHockeyPride]

@clarkbell I remember the Two Guys in Jersey City, New Jersey on Route 440 in near the Hudson County Mall...damn, this makes me feel older than I am! LMAO :-)

[EarlSnohomish]

I don't think I ever went to a Two Guys store as a kid. There was one in Coram and Massapequa, but there were closer stores like TSS and Korvettes, not to mention the Walt Whitman Mall, to go to instead.

I do remember the commercials...naturally! ;-)

[tramiel231]

Two Guys from Harrison, New Jersey...weirdly, where the original store stood...today, it's a Wal-Mart!

[mrmoore1970]

It's funny how many stores today such as Wal-Mart and Target replaces classic stores like Two Guys, Woolworth (& Woolco), Jamesway, among others. I sure miss the old Gimbel's here in Philadelphia, which used to be on 8th & Market. Arguably, customer service were much friendlier and more helpful then, than they are now, too many young service reps act like you're wasting their time or cutting into their break time.

[hondolespaul]

Same thing happened here in Rochester, NY on Hudson Ave.