Gold Circle Going Out of Business Sale (1988)

[jpayne4040]

I remember Gold Circle! I think I was 11-years old when it went out of business. I remember asking my mom, "Why don't they close K-Mart instead?" Lol

[crazyromanian1]

I still own a Seiko watch I bought there during their liquidation sale in Columbus Ohio in the Spring of 1979.

[GDK1]

I used to shop at the Gold Circle in Lexington, KY across from Fayette Mall. It's currently a Target. Kind of a shabby store in it's last two or three years.

[userste]

Does anyone remember a department store named BEST? That was another good dept store back in the day. (One of them was on Morse rd, now it's a Goodwill)

[kerryincolumbus]

@userste OMG yes!!! hadn't thought about that til just now when I saw your posting, though

[Meridian83West]

I used to like shopping at Gold Circle years ago. Unfortunately, their days were numbered when Federated Department Stores sold the chain to a Canadian company that was on shaky ground called Campeau. I don't know what became of them in other cities, but in Columbus they became Kohl's stores as another poster pointed out.

[Market42Fan]

Going through some commercials I'm about to upload later and found a Builders Square commercial for an individual store closing that used the same music as this one (and one for Richway as well). Once I noticed that, I took to calling it the "going out of business" theme.

[MyTVcollection]

I used to shop at Gold Circle on Morse Rd. (and even have the street sign on videotape!!) back in the 70s.

[userste]

@MyTVcollection

I shopped at the Morse Road one as well, when I was little.

[91flhs]

Some of the Gold Circles were bought by Hills Department Stores, which was bought by Ames in 1999 and closed in 2002.

[kirtzbros]

Aah, Gold Circle. The woman who basically raised me and my siblings, her husband worked at Gold Circle. He would bring us toys that they couldn't sell for one reason or another, stuff that had been damaged in transit, what have you. We got some awesome toys and the broken parts just made them better.

[stainshield]

Gold Circle was bought by Hills and then it was bought by Ames.

[jakobluke]

Hey I was born in 87 and I heard on a blog about Rink's (which was like Gold Circle) and a discount store called Wells which kids would sing "Wells smells and Rink's stinks!" Kids in Lima (where I have lived all of my life) would sing it all the time when those two stores were still around. But neither are there anymore here in said Lima.

[DJEclipseNiagara]

I remember the Gold Circle store in Niagara Falls, NY. Toward the end, virtually everything in the store was 95% off. They were serious about clearing it out. My parents bought two batting gloves for me from there when the discounts were around 50%. Said gloves were later stolen by some jerk in the first apartment building at which I lived. Oh, and that store was never turned into a Hills, since we already had one in the area. It simply closed, and has sat vacant for most of the time since then.

[domirules28]

@DJEclipseNiagara: i remember that store very well...and the other stores in the adjoining strip mall, such as fedaral meats, the bargain store, finger foods pizza, fay's drugs, a video store (i think pick a flick was the name of it), blackwinds pet supplies, a sports bar with really high windows (i remember being just tall enough to see inside it as a 5 year old) valu home center, (the lone store still there), dental care associates, a bridal shop, napa, and a party store...

[DJEclipseNiagara]

@domirules28 Domi, do you still live in this area?

[OctoberWytche]

I remember when Gold Circle took over the old Clarkins Department Store building in Canton. They painted that building to look like a carousel, for some reason

[Harry44Callahan2]

I sure remember Gold Circle! For those in Columbus how about Zayres, Ontario, Rinks. Swallens, Buckeye Mart, Woolco/Woolworth hard to believe they are all gone now. And how about some grocery store memories...Super Duper, Big D, A&P...

[kerryincolumbus]

@Harry44Callahan2 OMG!! BUCKEYE MART!! we lived across the street when they were building a Buckeye Mart at the corner of Reed and Henderson roads.. Where our house sat, is now the BP gas station. This was 1966, and it was a BIG DEAL that we were getting a store so close to home, a BUCKEYE MART.. OH BOY!

[StukInBuf]

Walden @ Dick Road in Depew... that was a Twin Fair, and then a Gold Circle. Now...?

[yaggazoozy]

Worked at Gold Circle from 1982 through 1988. What a great place to work. Class organization with many classy people. I miss it dearly.

[columbusmozart]

I'd love to see some Ontario's spots, if they exist.

[columbusmediatalk]

Page through the videos and check out the Uncle Bill's commercial on this channel. If you look at the end, it advertises the Ontario store in Elyria. They used the same jingle.

[JWLJN]

I loved Gold Circle. If you weren't around then, picture Target with gold/beige instead of red. That's exactly what it was like.

[noma4jon]

well its no coiencedence, Target bought Gold Circle along with Richway form Mays departments stores

[domirules28]

@JWLJN: it looked like someone ripped bought the old set from the gong show and cloned it into every gc

[donscamo]

Ya'll are forgetting something.

33 of the Gold Circles became Hills for about 5 minutes before they became Kohl's:)

Tonight I was telling my wife about being 17 and buying a Roadmaster EQ/100 watt power booster for 75% off at a going out of business sell. I new it was at the old Gold Circle on W. Broad in Columbus. I knew the short lived store started with an H. It took me a few to remember the name.

[tvcommercialman]

My Mom was a sales manager, and then later store secretary and manager at the Columbus store. She and my Dad loved gold circle. They bought everything there when they lived in Columbus during the late 70s into the 80s. They also shopped at Lazarus. Our whirlpool dryer we still use was bought at Lazarus in 1980. I have tons of vinyl records that she bought at gold circle. Christmas decorations too. A lot of stuff still has gold circle tags on it.

[thomesocksup]

I loved gold circle. Grew up in akron. My uncle used to work at Lazarus in columbus. I dont' remember exactly what his job was.

[penske13]

tvcommercialman, any chance on getting a few of those tags photographed and sent to me. :)

[tvcommercialman]

Sure, I'm getting Christmas decorations out this weekend. There are things in boxes with tags for sure, I'll snap a few and send them your way.

[penske13]

coll. when you get ready to do that please send me a message and i'll give you my email. that's really very nice, thank you.

[gregoryreedfye]

was out w/friends at dinner and actually brought up gold circle.i tell you dudes,that was like my fav place as a kid and it actually made me tear up.nothing last forever.i even won a huge xmas stocking with tons of toys there when i bought a green icee and picked the right number

[Delmoko]

I bought Atari games here.

[crb4059]

I remember back inthe early mid 80's walking around with my family in gold circle's shoe dept, and another kid took a dump right there. As soon as his father saw this grabbed him and ran out of there quickly.

[daddygreenjeens]

lol

[apachette07]

@crb4059 LOL classic!

[doulasc]

@crb4059 you mean the kid dropped his drawers or just did it in his pants?

[kerryincolumbus]

@crb4059 LMAO!!!!!!! I laughed at that til I CRIED!! I'm sure now-a-days if a kid took a shit in a store, the snooty parent would say "what are YOU looking at?" to the other shoppers, and let the kid sit there, in it

[rufusbaron]

The Gold Circle at Westerville Mall was the sweetness. I miss that place. In fact, Wsterville Mall itself was one of the finer malls ever built.

[DennyYou]

Yes it was! I was an employee that helped opened the Westerville store in October of 1974. I visited there last October, and was so saddened. Yes, the Kohl's store is nice, but I remember the pride we had at Gold Circle. It was a cut above the rest of the discount stores, much like Target is now. Thanks for remembering.

[AKN74]

I saved an old store ad from them

[pastdweller]

Can somebody please upload the commercial for Rich's Going out of Business Sale?

[WizardGlik]

The Gold Circle in Mentor, Ohio eventually became a Burlington Coat Factory which still operates in the same exact space today!

[apage123]

i used to all my school clothes at gold circle and i bought a nintendo there when i was 8, the store later became a hills then caldor

[Greg6251]

The actual year (not that it matters) is 1988 which is when GC liquidated.

[NDPortsmouth]

Geez who would have a 9/11 sale? Maybe it was a fire sale?

[columbusmediatalk]

Cool! I hadn't noticed that before! Sharp eye!

[Pdasilva0324]

I don't think it meant that there was a "9/11 sale". I think it meant the date of the circular ad was 9/11, which would have meant 9/11/88 and was a date of little signifigance back then.

[crb4059]

this was a govt conspiracy, george w. bush already concocted and planned his terorr attacks on america back in the 80's and chose "9-11", open your eyes, and please stop sticking your head in the sand, you buffoon. the govt is trying to rule over us, NO COINCIDENCE!!!

[penske13]

and the moral of the story is to NOT drop your kids on their heads!! dufus

[StukInBuf]

Sorry, I meant to click the "down" arrow for the previous "govt conspiracy" comment. Dang!

[discod]

I totally remember Gold Circle! There was something similar in the south called Zodies, but they were really just like Target.

[dwalex97209]

So do I. My family shopped there quite often. The one we shopped at- on West Broad and Phillipi in Columbus, Ohio became a Kohl's a few years later.

[grant135a]

As did the one on Olentangy near Riverside.