Gold Circle Going Out of Business Sale (1988)

Here's a commercial advertising the liquidation of Gold Circle Discount Department Stores. Gold Circle was owned by Federated Department Stores and was considered an upscale discounter much like Target. The Gold Circle division was based in Worthington, Ohio and also operated Richway stores in the south.

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[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.

[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!

[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.

[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.

[crb4059]

@crb4059 This was also the first and last time stepping into a Gold Circle, they closed now long after.

[crb4059]

@kerryincolumbus I still remember this so vividly, the kid was trying to get the attention of his father frantically like something was terribly wrong, I was maybe 5-6 yo att. We were in the shoe dept, and his father was paying no attention to him. And not a moment or 2 later, lumps brown crap were falling down his leg. As soon as his dad saw it, he grabbed him and an out of there. Me and my dad walked by the pile of crap, and my dad was laughing.

[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!

[kerryincolumbus]

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

[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

[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)

[userste]

@MyTVcollection

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