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49 stores you once loved that don't exist anymore
Thom McAn was a chain of shoe stores that had over 1,400 stores at its peak in the 1960s. The chain had closed by 1996, but Thom McAn shoes are still available at Sears and Kmart.
Kinney Shoes opened in 1894. It had 467 stores at its peak, all of which shuttered in 1998.
In 1992, Blockbuster acquired the Sound Warehouse and Music Plus music chains and created Blockbuster Music. The chain was sold to Wherehouse entertainment in 1998 before closing for good.
Warner Bros. Studio Store competed with the Disney store until the company closed all of its locations in 2001.
Zany Brainy stores filed for bankruptcy in 2001, and the educational toy retailer's founder, David Schlessinger, now runs the discount company Five Below.
Ames Department Store had more than 700 locations, but debt and poor sales forced it into bankruptcy twice. In 2002, the remaining Ames stores closed.
Imaginarium was an educational toy store in the 1980s. Stores started closing in the 1990s, and by 2003, its parent company Toys R Us had closed them all.
Hecht's Department Store was founded in 1857. In 2005, the chain was purchased by Macy's and all locations were either turned into Macy's stores or closed.
Federated Department Stores bought Marshall Field's in 2005 and converted the stores to the company's more recognizable flagship brand, Macy's.
Gadzooks was a teen clothing store that was around from 1983 to 2005. It filed for bankruptcy in its final year and was purchased by Forever 21, which then closed all of the stores.
Kaufmann's was a department store that had 44 locations at its peak. In 2006, Macy's retired the name, and the brand disappeared.
Tower Records was one of the largest record stores in the 1990s, but it couldn't keep up with the rise of digital music. All Tower Records stores in the US were closed in 2006.
Media Play was opened by the same company as Sam Goody, serving as a big-box version of the store. It closed for good in 2006.
Discovery Channel stores sold educational books, videos, and gifts, but all 103 standalone stores closed in 2007.
K·B Toys operated over 1,300 stores across all 50 states. The chain announced it would be going out of business in 2008, and by early 2009 all locations were closed.
Sharper Image declared bankruptcy in 2008. But the company still sells merchandise through its website, catalog, and third-party retail partners.
Levitz Furniture was founded way back in 1910. It declared bankruptcy twice — first in 1997, and then in 2005. It closed all of its stores in 2008.
Linens 'n Things had over 500 stores in 2006, but by the end of 2008, they were all closed. The company still does business online.
Mervyn's was a California-based department store founded in 1949 that had almost 200 locations in the western US. In 2008, the company declared bankruptcy and closed all of its stores.
Limited Too, The Limited's children's store, launched in 1987. Its success began dwindling in the early 2000s, and all Limited Too stores were eventually rebranded as Justice by 2008.
Tweeter was an electronics chain that started in 1972, but all of its stores were closed by the end of 2008.
Circuit City had 567 stores in 2008. By 2009, they were all closed.
Steve & Barry's sold inexpensive sportswear for teens. It closed all of its stores in 2009.
Filene's Department Store, a Boston-based department store, went bankrupt in 2009, and there are no more brick-and-mortar locations left.
B. Dalton Books was acquired by Barnes & Noble in 1987, which officially closed the bookstore in January 2010.
Filene's Basement was an off-price store that started in Filene's and eventually grew to 20 locations. Its parent company went bankrupt in 2009, and by 2011 all Filene's Basement stores were closed.
Waldenbooks was founded in 1933 and grew to 250 locations in 15 years. In 1994, the company merged with Borders, and in 2011 all Waldenbooks stores closed when Borders Group liquidated.
Borders Books & Music stores also all closed shortly after the company was forced to liquidate in 2011.
CompUSA started in 1984 as a chain specializing in computer hardware and software. But by 2007, Best Buy and other superstores had taken over, and the last CompUSA closed in 2012.
Sam Goody music stores opened back in the 1940s but suffered from the rise of digital media. Most Sam Goody stores were either shuttered or converted into other brands like FYE by 2012.
Blockbuster, the iconic video rental store, announced in 2013 that it would begin closing most locations. Only a single Blockbuster remains in Bend, Oregon.
A&P was the largest grocery store chain in the US from 1915 to 1975. It filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2010 and again in 2015, closing its stores that year.
Sports Authority had more than 200 locations in the US, but competition drove the company into bankruptcy in 2016, when it closed all its stores and sold its website to competing brand Dick's Sporting Goods.
Sport Chalet, which first opened in 1959, abruptly closed all of its stores in 2016.
Wet Seal, a teen clothing store, filed for bankruptcy in 2015 and closed for good in 2017. Even though its stores are closed, you can still shop online.
Virgin Megastores stopped operating in the US in 2017, mostly because of the rapidly declining CD market.
Radio Shack closed more than 1,000 stores after filing for bankruptcy in March 2017.
The Limited abruptly shut down all 250 of its stores in 2017.
Teavana's 379 locations were closed by its parent company Starbucks in 2018.
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Toys R Us and its subsidiaries closed in 2018. While the Toys R Us store and website came back in 2019, Babies R Us has yet to make a comeback in the US.
LifeWay Christian Resources said it would be closing all its stores in March 2018, but it still sells books, bibles, and church supplies online.
After 123 years of business, Henri Bendel closed all its stores in January 2019.
Dress Barn announced the closing of all 650 of their store locations in May 2019.
Papyrus, a stationary and greeting card retailer, filed for bankruptcy and confirmed it would close all its stores on January 23, 2020, but Papyrus greeting cards are still available at retailers like Target.
The Darkest Circle of Hell: How the Town of Paradise Was Lost (1/2)
All it took was a single spark. On the morning of the 8th of November 2018, a terrifying firestorm tore through the quiet California city of Paradise, destroying everything in its path. More than 50,000 people fled for their lives, navigating winding mountain roads through the heart of the inferno in a desperate bid to escape. Around 18,000 buildings were destroyed, amounting to more than ninety percent of the town. At least 85 people lost their lives. Paradise, once a thriving community, was wiped off the map in less than a day. Never before had a wildfire wrought such cataclysmic devastation in an American town, and the world was left asking: how did this happen, and why? This is the story of those harrowing hours in which so many lost everything—and of their significance in a warming world, where the clock is ticking down to the day that another disaster like Paradise will strike again. Part 1: Before the Blaze When a terrible natural disaster takes place, we are bombarded by photographs and videos of the carnage and its aftermath. Tableaus of destruction fan out across television screens as survivors lament the loss of their homes and communities. Only rarely do we get an intimate look at what the community was like before it was destroyed. As it happens, multiple generations of my father’s family grew up in and around Butte County, California, where Paradise is located. In fact, the fire that destroyed Paradise was turned back barely a kilometer from the house that my grandparents have lived in since 2003. It is therefore important to me that people understand what sort of place Paradise was, and not just what happened on its darkest day. Paradise, like most of the innumerable little towns scattered through the rugged foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, was probably founded by loggers, fur trappers, and gold miners in the late 1800s. Its name likely comes from its scenic location: the township sits on a flat-topped ridge with canyons running along either side covered in a dense carpet of oak trees and tall ponderosa pines. Its idyllic surroundings and proximity to the larger urban centre of Chico gave Paradise extra appeal, and it grew slowly but steadily throughout the 20th century, becoming an incorporated city in 1979. As Paradise grew, it kept its charm by leaving forests standing even as neighbourhoods spread out into them, giving every street a cozy, shady feel all year round. Small businesses flourished, with many quaint restaurants, antique shops, and other long-established enterprises lining the forested avenues. There were also the staples, of course: a mall with a SaveMart, a Kmart, and an Arc thrift store, another mall dominated by a Safeway grocery store; a McDonald’s; a Burger King; and a KFC. A third, smaller mall held a few more businesses, like a Holiday Market and a Little Caesar’s Pizza. Most of the businesses sat along the two parallel main streets of Clark Road and Skyway Road, both of which continue to the south and west from the town and serve as the main routes in or out. Other major landmarks include Paradise High School, home of the Bobcats, situated in between Clark Road and Skyway Road, as well as the Feather River Hospital, on the east edge of town overlooking a deep gorge. There is also the enormous Paradise Alliance Church, with its distinctive octagonal main building. Most of Paradise’s 27,000-some residents lived scattered through the forest immediately surrounding the two main streets, and along a third artery, Pentz road, that marks the town’s eastern boundary at the top of the gorge. Clark, Pentz, and the Skyway all meet at the north end of town, where the plateau narrows to just a couple blocks across. (A map of all these landmarks over a satellite image of the town can seen here. It would be wise to refer to this later.) Paradise is not the only community in the immediate area. Just past the bottleneck where the three main streets meet is the town of Magalia, home to a further 10,000 people (and a scenic reservoir). One of its main landmarks is a historic site marking the place where a particularly large gold nugget was found sometime in the 19th century. To the east of Paradise, across the gorge and over a hill, is the quiet residential town of Concow, situated around Concow Reservoir, a large lake with a couple of forested islands. Out the west side, down in the deep Butte Creek canyon, are the additional communities of Diamondville, Centerville, and Helltown. The residents of these communities were mainly retired, and a good portion were so-called mountain people, living secluded lives mostly off the grid. Paradise itself was also a popular place for retirees, many of them very poor or living off disability. Although for some residents Paradise was a bedroom community for nearby Chico, most took advantage of its quaint, self-reliant personality to create a unique and thriving community. Annual events brought both locals and travelers out onto its forested streets. There were Johnny Appleseed Days at the town’s one operational orchard, which put on California’s longest-running harvest festival. The yearly Wildflower bicycle ride brought hundreds of bicyclists from all over the state to take part in rides of various lengths, liberally dotted with pit stops where local restaurant owners and amateur cooks would put on large spreads of food for the ravenous riders. And of course, Paradise High School’s football team was the big sports sensation in town. The biggest part of what made Paradise attractive was its natural setting, but this was a double-edged sword. It had been known for decades that the town, which was so densely forested that any given block appeared to be surrounded by wilderness, could be in danger from damaging wildfires. Those fears were nearly realized in 2008 when a wildfire burned right up to the northern edge of the town. There were also concerns about how its 27,000 residents, many of them elderly, would evacuate through only two main escape routes. There are no roads to the east or northwest due to the deep gorges and canyons, and the continuation of the Skyway out the north end through Magalia soon turns into a winding back road to nowhere. If a fire were to threaten Paradise, authorities planned to issue evacuations for the most affected areas first, then stagger further evacuations to prevent congestion. An early warning system was set up to send evacuation notices to residents in case of a natural disaster, but the system was voluntary, and only 8,000 people signed up. In some neighbourhoods, the system had as little as 6% coverage. Fire authorities also encouraged people to cut back vegetation surrounding their homes, but many were reluctant to do so because the dense trees and bushes surrounding each house were part of what gave Paradise its character. Still, some residents did cut back the vegetation, since the alternative was sometimes a fine. Despite these warning signs, however, Paradise continued to act like its name suggested: a beautiful little town where nothing bad ever happened, and where everyone felt safe. And for a long time, it came close. Even though its residents all knew about the fire danger, especially after the close call in 2008, none really believed that the worst case scenario would ever occur. What was hard to see, however, was that in the centuries since Europeans first settled the area around Paradise, the character of its forests had been changing. With Native Americans no longer deliberately setting fires, and natural fires being extinguished as quickly as possible, the forest became more than ten times as dense as it once had been. Fuel, such as downed logs and pine needles, grew far thicker than ever before. Then came the drought. For seven years, California withered under scorching heat and long periods with precious little rain. Then, in 2017 and again in 2018, heavy winter rains at last relieved the terrible dryness. Although rainfall totals mostly returned to normal, the timing was poor: beginning in late May of 2018, not a single drop of rain fell on Paradise. All the vegetation that sprang up after the winter rains dried and withered again. By the 8th of November, long after the first rains of fall should have arrived, much of Butte County had been turned into a tinderbox. It was a perfect storm of factors, and conditions were ripe for disaster. Part 2: The Firestorm Well before dawn on the 8th of November 2018, high winds gusting between 40 and 80kph (25-50mph) descended on the Paradise region. These so-called katabatic winds form when cool, dense air is pulled from high elevations down to lower elevations under the force of gravity, and they can cause havoc on the mountain slopes in between. Predicting dangerous fire conditions due to the dry weather and strong winds, the Northern California utility company, Pacific Gas and Electric, warned some residents that it might shut off power as a precaution. The planned power cut never materialized, however. Then, at 6:15 in the morning, a power line failed in the Feather River canyon near the tiny hamlet of Pulga, about 13km (8mi) east of Paradise. The exact reason for the failure is not yet known. Pulga, a settlement nestled into a side canyon across the Feather River from state highway 70, has a permanent population of just two people. However, it hosts a strange commercial operation called the Mystic Valley School of Hypnotism, as well as a congregation of druids. The odd inhabitants of Pulga would be the first to witness the horror that was to come. When the power lines failed near Pulga, PG&E was quickly made aware of the problem. Then, at 6:33, a fire was reported at the location of the transmission line failure near Camp Creek Road. A fire crew was sent to scout out the blaze, only to discover that it was burning high up on the side of the canyon, accessible only on the tiny, narrow Camp Creek Road and out of reach of their fire trucks. A fire captain on the scene at 6:43 reported that the blaze already had the potential to metastasize into a “major incident.” Little did he know he was witnessing the opening minutes of a disaster of unprecedented proportions. Spread of the fire at 7:00 (All fire extent maps are approximate.) Within ten minutes of the fire captain’s report, and before any firefighting could take place, the blaze climbed the ridge above the west bank of the Feather River and sped toward Concow, propelled along by the ferocious katabatic winds. Around 7:00, the fire ripped into the outskirts of Concow without warning. Sleeping residents were rudely awakened by smoke and flames racing toward their houses. The first call to the sole 911 dispatcher on duty came at 7:07 a.m. when a man reported, “There is a fire. This is back in Concow.” One minute later, another caller reported that “There’s a fire in Concow and it’s rippin’.” The 710 inhabitants of Concow found themselves in mortal danger as flames as high as the treetops tore through one street after another, raining ash and embers across a wide area and destroying the homes of people who didn’t know there was a fire five minutes before. Entirely on their own and with officials barely aware of the blaze, they raced down the narrow mountain roads leading out of the town, only for the fire to overtake them as they drove. Several people, including a 90-year-old man, became trapped between the fire and the shores of Lake Concow and were forced to swim to an island where they remained for many hours, battling spot fires ignited by blowing embers. One couple fled in an ancient Oldsmobile while propane cylinders exploded all around them. Over in Paradise, residents on the eastern edge of town near Pentz Road began to call 911 to report the fire, only to be told it was “north of Concow by highway 70” and that they were not in danger. No evacuation orders were issued, even as residents near Paradise reported smoke blowing over their houses—there simply wasn’t any way for authorities to know where the fire was and how fast it was spreading. In fact, with sustained winds now approaching 80kph (50mph), the fire expanded at a rate of a football pitch every second. The leading edge of the blaze was moving toward Paradise faster than a person can run. Most people there still had no idea that it had already killed seven or eight residents of Concow—and they were next in its path. Spread of the fire by 8:00 By around 8:00 in the morning, the fire had not only overrun Concow, but had also topped the ridge on the west side of town, descended into the Rattlesnake Creek gorge, and climbed up toward Paradise. Residents whose homes overlooked the gorge were forced to flee even before the official order to evacuate the eastern edge of town came at around 8:05. The city used its Code Red warning system—the one that only 8,000 people signed up for—but many never received it. (One city councilor interviewed later said he had been signed up for Code Red, yet never received the evacuation notice sent by his own council.) At the Feather River Hospital, which stands right on the eastern edge of Paradise, the hospital administrator ordered the hospital to be evacuated at 8:07. By then, fire was closing in on the medical campus from two directions and threatened to spread into the hospital buildings. Nurses frantically evacuated the patients, some of them very ill or on ventilators, others in wheelchairs or on stretchers, and regrouped at the helipad. But due to the smoke and high winds, helicopters were unable to arrive. Additionally, two ambulances were ordered to make their way up toward Paradise from Chico, but the staff knew they would be insufficient. Within 20 minutes, the decision was made to evacuate all 80 patients in the police and fire vehicles that were already there, as well as in the personal vehicles of hospital employees. Meanwhile, the evacuation orders sent out using the automated alert system did not reach most residents because they had not signed up for it, and even if they had, the system took so long that calls didn’t start going out until 16 minutes after it was activated, and it never attempted to reach as much as one third of the phone numbers on the list. As waves of thick, black smoke rolled over the city, police drove around neighbourhoods blasting the evacuation order over their loudspeakers, but they couldn’t hope to cover every street in the town. And many elderly residents, especially in places like the Apple Tree Village mobile home park, either couldn’t hear it or couldn’t get out on their own even if they did. Still worse, one in five residents of Paradise had a disability; many were left without help. Authorities also soon found that the staggered evacuation method that they had planned would be ineffective because the fire was moving faster than their systems could call people. The first warning for many was the smell of smoke and the arrival of flames. People rushed to grab what belongings they could in just a few minutes, making off with little more than a few photo albums, their pets, and the clothes on their backs. Some didn’t even manage that. Thousands of people all trying to escape at the same time caused immediate gridlock on all of Paradise’s main roads, with long lines of cars waiting to funnel onto Clark Road, Pentz Road, and the Skyway, the only routes out of town. One harrowing video began at about 8:40 a.m. in a deeply wooded neighbourhood just north of the hospital. Within minutes, smoke rolled in and day turned to night as the cameraman and his neighbours rushed to grab everything that they could. Only once he got in the car and turned on the radio did he receive any kind of evacuation notice, and just minutes later the street behind him was consumed in flames. By that point other neighbourhoods were already burning; his was among the last on the eastern edge to catch fire. But as soon as he reached Pentz road, he found cars streaming along it in both directions, prompting him to exclaim, “Why are people going both ways? Fuck, I’m never getting out of here! I don’t know which way to go.” Spread of the fire at 9:00 Students who had recently arrived at schools across Paradise found their school days cut short just minutes after they began. Parents rushed to pick up their kids, adding to the gridlock as people hurried in every direction. Faced with intractable traffic jams, many people decided to take shelter in parking lots, including those outside the Feather River Hospital, the Kmart, and the Paradise Alliance Church. Meanwhile, blowing embers had jumped ahead and started new fires on the other side of town, trapping much of Paradise’s population in between them. By 9:00, tens thousands of people from Paradise, Magalia, and other nearby communities were still trying to make their way out through the total gridlock on the main streets. Some of those who had taken shelter in parking lots, especially the hospital, were forced to flee as nearby buildings (including the hospital’s outbuildings and generator building) caught fire. With the flames less than 100m (330ft) away, a care centre for the profoundly disabled packed all of its mentally challenged and quadriplegic patients into personal vehicles and rushed out onto the Skyway, only to find it totally blocked with traffic. Firefighters informed them that it was unlikely that any cars would get through, so they loaded their patients into wheelchairs and began pushing them down the Skyway on foot. Firefighters quickly saw that this would end badly, so the patients were rushed back to their vehicles, leaving a large collection of wheelchairs abandoned on the side of the road. For the next 45 minutes, traffic barely moved at all as vehicles slowly trickled out the bottom end of the Skyway and into Chico. The man in the aforementioned video became stuck at the hospital for almost an hour, breathing in dense smoke amid volleys of burning embers. The smoke across much of town became so thick that mid-morning became indistinguishable from night, with some areas lit only by the light of the flames. By this point, as many as 17 cell towers had been destroyed, cutting off communication for most residents of Paradise as they tried to flee. The city’s evacuation plan lay in shambles as the fire spread faster than they could stagger the orders to each of the town’s 14 evacuation zones. City councilors also had to make a tough decision: reverse the flow of traffic on Clark Road and the Skyway so that fleeing residents could use all the lanes, or keep the inbound lanes open so that more fire trucks could get in? They ultimately decided to open all lanes to outbound traffic. By that point, fire crews were not even attempting to fight the fire, which was spreading in leaps and bounds with flying embers lighting new blazes everywhere. There simply wasn’t a way to stop it, so firefighters were focusing on making sure everyone got out of it alive. One woman recalled fighting with her mother over whether to leave their home in Paradise—she wanted to evacuate; her mom wanted to stay. In fact, their house was under a mandatory evacuation order, but they had no idea. The urge to stay was strong: the city had campaigned hard to make sure that residents knew their evacuation zone and not to leave unless their zone had been called. No one had considered how this plan would work if a fire attacked Paradise on every front at once, and no one had realized that many residents might not be in a position to receive evacuation notices. The woman who fought with her mother, fearing for her own life, eventually left without her. Flames overtook their house minutes later, and her mother burned to death in their living room, still waiting for an evacuation notice. Spread of the fire by 10:00 That mother and daughter were hardly alone: all over Paradise, Magalia, and other nearby communities, thousands of people still had not left their homes. When the fire threatened to tear through the Apple Tree Village mobile home park, one neighbour went door to door warning elderly residents who had no idea what was going on. When the fire cut off the neighbourhood’s only entrance, he was forced to ram his truck through a fence onto a side road in order to lead people out. No one knew it yet, but people were already dying, some of them without ever getting out of bed. One woman in her 90s only escaped because a garbage man driving through the neighbourhood noticed that she was still standing in her yard, and gave her a ride. The fire roared across the northern half of Paradise, surrounding the Kmart parking lot where dozens of people were hunkered down in and around their vehicles. One man at Kmart captured astonishing video of a tree flaring up like a torch in mere seconds. Explosions rang out through the forest several times a minute as the fire consumed cars and pressurized canisters. On the opposite side of Paradise, the southern arm of the fire had long since crossed Pentz road and was making an end run around the southern side of the town, a shallow hillside riven by small ravines and covered in oak trees and ranch homes. On Edgewood Lane, which protrudes from the south end of Paradise between Clark Road and Pentz Road, self-described “mountain man” Greg Woodcox saw the fire coming straight for his semi-rural neighbourhood. Woodcox, a hermit who wanders the local hills panning for gold, realized he needed to warn his neighbours at the end of the street, including a friend of his who was paraplegic. He frantically tried to gather them together as the flames bore down on them, but according to Woodcox, his friend’s mother insisted that she put on her makeup before leaving. By the time the whole family (five people, plus Woodcox) peeled out of the driveway, the fire had already arrived. Racing up the dirt street just ahead of the flames, the car behind Woodcox’s Jeep spun and got stuck with its rear wheels in a ditch less than 100 meters down the road. In an instant, the fire was on top of them, and Woodcox looked behind him to see the three cars carrying his neighbours burst into flames. Fearing that he had just seconds to live, Woodcox at first made peace with his god—but then he saw a fox run across the road and down toward a ravine about 600m (1980ft) to the west. Figuring the fox knew something he didn’t, Woodcox left his two Chihuahuas in his jeep with the engine running and followed the fox into the ravine, where he discovered a pool of water about 1 meter deep. He cowered in the pool, barely daring to breathe as the fire rolled over him. The temperature of the water rose until it was “hotter than the hottest hot tub,” as Woodcox later described it. But just when he seemed about to be boiled alive, the worst of the fire moved on, and he scrambled back out, about 45 minutes after he first left his car. He returned to find his Jeep still running with his dogs alive inside, although most of the plastic on the exterior had melted. His neighbours were not so lucky. (Warning: NSFL.) He started filming the scene on his phone, first discovering the badly burned body of one neighbour who had been overtaken by the flames as he fled his car. Two more charred skeletons still sat in the front seats of the burned-out shell of a sedan. All five of his neighbours had burned alive—Woodcox was the only survivor. Had they left just a minute earlier, he says, they would all still be alive. Link to Post 2/2
My Ex-Girlfriend Isn't Taking The Breakup Well Part 12
After Ramsay left I tossed together a sandwich and parked myself in front of the TV. At this point I had no idea what to expect. I still also had no idea why that one guy looked familiar to me. Who was it? Someone who saw Allison and me when we were together and got jealous? That wasn't too far out there, as whenever we went out we got looks. Let me rephrase that; SHE got the looks, I got the third degree. Guys would approach her even when we were openly affectionate. Allison turned them all down, but I never forgot how invisible I felt. Guys would offer to buy her drinks or give her their number like it was nothing. As an added touch, guys would look at me as if they could not believe we were together. The worst part? I didn't blame them for that. When I first met her and we started dating, I was waiting for the catch. Well, eventually I found that out. Still am in fact, because all I can say is I sure dodged a bullet. That must be why that guy looked familiar. One of the many, and I do mean many guys that hit on Allison when I was around. That also explained why even though I wasn't sure who he was, I didn't like him. Something about his attitude showed through his picture. As I was going over the past, I took bites of my turkey sandwich, pausing occasionally to add in a Dorito here and there. I felt relief as I remembered this term would be officially over tomorrow. I had finalized Grades and all that remained was to turn them into the Dean. That Friday I turned in my final grades and celebrated the end of the semester with Chloe. It was a stunning spring day, warm with a light breeze, perfect for grabbing some Frozen Yogurt. I loaded mine with hot fudge, caramel, and crushed up Oreos. Chloe herself wasn't shy either, cramming hers full of peanut butter cups, chopped nuts, hot fudge, and Sour Gummy Worms. We ate them as we walked along the sidewalk. After I had finished mine and tossed it in the garbage I asked her something that I had been thinking of. "Well lets see. Now that Millstone is dead, who else can we talk to that knew Allison? Someone who knew her before, knew her family like you did?" She had her spoon raised to her lips when I spoke. She chewed it thoughtfully for a few moments before answering. "No one around here so that means someone from our old town or elsewhere. She has no family there so that leaves someone from school." She began counting on her fingers as she ticked off people. "Mr. Delany died years ago, Ms. Robinson moved to California before Allison and her family left town, and last I heard Mrs. Edwards has Alzheimer's. So that just leaves Mrs. Hansen. She was an institution at Andrew Jackson. That was our old school," she added seeing the confused look on my face. "You think she knew why the Dunbar's left town?" Chloe brushed a stand of hair out of her face. "Mrs. Dunbar couldn't just yank Allison out of school without saying something. Truancy and all that. Not to mention she was too much of a stickler for appearances to just let it seem like they just went away without a good reason." Good point. "I'm guessing you want us to take a field trip?" She nodded without saying a word. "If you don't want to I totally understand. No one could blame you for not wanting to bother." "You know something? I don't mind. Not anymore. Sort of therapeutic really. I could use a little vacation too. Getting out of here for a little bit can't hurt." "Cool. Shall we leave Monday?" "Sounds good." Before I knew it, Sunday afternoon was here and that meant packing my suitcase. Packing for a trip is one thing I really take seriously. A poorly planned trip can spell disaster. I can't tell you how many Spring Break horror stories I've heard over the years. Attempted kidnapping, robbery, you name it. So I bring all the essentials and make sure to leave word of where I'm going. In this case, that meant calling Ramsay. I also was partially looking forward to seeing Chloe in this setting. If you ever really want to get to know someone, take a road trip with them. You can't hide when your stuck alone in a car with them for hours on end. After zipping up my black suitcase, I called Ramsay. "Hey Vince, what's up?" "Hey Detective. Just wanted to give you a heads up, Chloe and I are visiting Allison's old hometown. She knows someone who may be able to give us more on Allison's family." "Wonderful. I also have good news for you. We were able to obtain some DNA from the bear. It doesn't match Allison's or Millstone's so its taking some time to eliminate people. But it's a solid lead. Mind if I meet you and Chloe so we can get a sample, so we can eliminate your profiles as well?" "Sure thing. We're planning to leave tomorrow. She's coming by at 9 am, if you get here before then you can see us before we leave." "Sounds good, see you then." Ramsay arrived at 8:45 the next morning. I let him swab the inside of my mouth, and he put the swab safely inside some special kit. Chloe arrived shortly after. Since I texted her before, she wasn't surprised and let Ramsay do the same to her. He thanked us both and was on his way. As Chloe was putting her bags in the car, I stopped by and told Mrs. Arlington where I was going. She immediately pulled me into a hug. I couldn't see her face, but I could practically feel her expression of concern as she whispered "Be very careful." With that, it was time to hit the road. The drive passed in relative quiet. We made benign chit chat here and there, but eventually silence would prevail each time. The radio would go periodically go to static as various stations passed in and out of frequency, requiring some channel surfing. I drove briskly, but without gunning the engine, deftly weaving past the odd slow driver or wide load carrying semi. Occasionally we passed the odd car off to the side of the road, its hood up while someone was either tinkering under the hood of sitting with their ear to a phone. But mostly it was miles of plan forest, the outskirts dotted with billboards warning of drug abuse, signs for McDonald's, and massive water towers that dotted grass and farms like giant blue obelisks. Here and there, a road would be cordoned off or restricted for maintenance. As the sun burned brightly in the early afternoon sky, we stopped at the turnpike and got some Subway. I wasn't in the mood for Burger King, Popeye's, or Chipotle. By that time I had been driving for three hours and after a small breakfast of scrambled eggs, I was pretty hungry. Getting out of the car to stretch my legs felt amazing. I also felt much more alert after scarfing down my turkey sub. Chloe also wasted no time in chowing down on her roast beef sandwich. After we got back on the road, we drove for about two more before we came to an outlet mall. We had been making good time and since you always want to stretch your legs, we strolled around for a little while doing some window shopping. While I didn't know exactly how far we had to go, I could almost feel we were getting closer to Allison's old hometown. As we passed more and more signs, the countdown to Maple Bluffs began. First 20 miles, then 15, and from there it went steadily down to single digits. Before I knew it, the sign welcoming us to city of Maple Bluffs was in front of us, the name written in elegant cursive with the M and B woven together on the thick black and gold sign. Apart from that, it was all a bit anti-climactic, Chloe only offering a small "We're here." As the car wove its way through the streets of Maple Bluffs, the first thing that came to mind was that it suited Allison perfectly. The place itself reminded me something once nice that had severely diminished over time. When you first saw it, the town looked impressive. Lots of quaint looking Victorian houses with neat front yards. But as you went in deeper, you began to question that, as other images of the town emerged. I spotted what looked like a closed down Ponderosa Steakhouse and Kmart next to a strip mall, the vendors in there also looking closed. I could imagine the locals sitting in bars with flickering neon signs repeating the refrain of "It didn't used to be like this." Of course it didn't. Had it always been like this, no family would have ever set up roots here. Places that begin as shitholes and remain shitholes are always reduced to rubble; no survivors, no memories. Main street was neat enough with small, but respectable looking business and offices decorating the road. The place also had wonderful water views and the occasional nice house decorating the landscape. But apart from that, it was a bunch of throwback single story ranch houses. Money, like misery, loves company and doesn't do well alone. Maple Bluffs was the kind of place that kissed up to the few rich people left in town, all in the hopes that they and their money would stay put. Of course, that doesn't mean people in town like having to brown nose the haves. In fact, odds are they absolutely hate it, having to play the game of who can bow lowest before the town bigwigs. Something tells me the Dunbar family got a front row seat to that little charade. The center of town was main street, neatly buffeted by a number of brick buildings. Capehart Insurance and a mom and pop restaurant named Josie's stood next to Maple Bluff's City Hall, a looming white building with massive windows that seemed to be peering out over the entire town. It looked oddly out of place amongst the others. There was one other thing I kept noticing; amongst the fast food joints and questionable strip malls were signs advertising something called Hilliard Lake. As we had gotten closer to town, signs has also advertised it on the highway. "What happened?" I asked Chloe as we turned onto Spruce Drive. "To what?" She shifted in her seat to look at me, the seatbelt clicking as she did. "The town. Every town has a story." She took a sip of her water bottle before answering, the cheap, flimsy plastic crunching in her hand. "Well, it was sort of a handful of things. For starters, the people in charge of the city itself ran it into the ground. We didn't have one awful mayor, we had several. Of course, back then people didn't know that. Decades ago times were great, everyone was happy. Maple Bluffs wasn't wiped out overnight. It was more like death by a thousand cuts or an infection that silently spreads everywhere." "Right. Corruption, incompetence, or both?" "Both. Oh and don't forget arrogance. Can't leave out the last member of the trinity." "Course not." "People lived high on the hog for so long it was a shock when the butcher's bill arrived. Hell, I can't even remember what the little vanity projects were, but I know some people in town still can. In other words, what comes up, must come down. And down it came indeed. Hard. A town that was doing so well suddenly in the red, people want to know why. I heard it was like a Dam breaking. It seems to happen overnight, but when you look back, the structure was doomed for years. It's just a matter of who can pick up on it." "What else?" As Chloe was adjusting her seatbelt, a Burger King sign went past her shoulder. I caught a whiff as we went on, the heavy charbroiled smell was somehow both alluring and heavy. "That was at the same time local industries started to fail," she continued. "This big statewide development corporation diverted river traffic away from local ports and before you even realize it, local business is drying up. The haves families all come out ok, but then the have less families slowly begin to feel the pinch. But there is money, its just a question of what you're willing to do for it." On the left was an old junkyard complete with body shop, the name on the sign illegible from being weathered down. There was an assortment of car parts in a small pile next to an old vending machine. "So that's where Allison got the entrepreneurial spirit from." "Perhaps. The worst part of all is the haves all love to look at the town and say 'Isn't it awful?' when in reality they love it. Not only is stuff cheaper, it tightens their grip on local matters. Less competition for stuff you know?" "I do." "And around here, you know who you can blame and where to find them. You know where they shop, where they go to church, where their kids go to school, where their wife get's their hair done." "Someone remembers who didn't tip their daughter when they were waiting tables, but somehow managed to afford a trip to Florida." "That's right. My family did ok while here, but we were one of a small handful. After I got older, we moved a ways away." "Good to be back?" I asked nonchalantly. She grimaced slightly at this. "Ask me later." "Oh and I forgot to ask. What's Hilliard Lake?" "Local amusement park. One of the few nice things from the old days that's survived this long." Even a shithole town always has one redeeming thing left in it. "Fun place?" "Not bad. The indoor waterpark is pretty cool actually." "Good stuff." We eventually stopped at our hotel located just outside of town and right near the highway. I had made reservations at the local Best Western. You can usually tell what kind of hotel a place is by the word in the title. Motel usually meant there should be a sign out front that said "25 days without a murder." Inn typically meant the place was a Bed and Breakfast with horrible décor and ran by people with no clue how to run a B&B. Suites usually meant a respectable chain you went to say overnight for business conferences. Traveling as I do for work, I've learned where to stay. We both got checked in without any trouble and were immediately given our room keys; second floor rooms, right next to each other. My room was decent, clean, and organized. I put my suitcase out of the way, next to the overpriced mini bar. Then I took off my shoes, pulled off the bed's comforter, and flopped down on the bed. That always feels amazing. I wasted no time in finding the remote and surfing my way through the channels. Since there was no onscreen tv guide, that meant I had to find something the old fashion way. About halfway through, I found some old episodes of The Simpsons and kept it there for a few hours until it was time for dinner. Since I didn't feel like going anywhere, I ordered a pizza for delivery. To my pleasant surprise, it came right on time. As soon as I closed the door, I wasted no time in devouring it. When relaxing before bed, I imagined Chloe next door. I couldn't help but wonder what she was doing. Staying in a hotel must be like nothing to her anymore. But to me I felt like I was staying in a foreign place. I slipped into an uneasy sleep that night, waking up several times forgetting where I was. I kept it simple at breakfast, some eggs, tater tots, and coffee. The eggs were rubbery enough they could be a dog's chew toy, but the tater tots were hot and crispy, which was the important thing. The only thing worse than cold tater tots is cold pizza. After jumping in the shower, I met Chloe out in the lobby and we headed out. "Good night's sleep?" "Not bad, you?" "Eh, it was ok," I answered as I unlocked my car. "You have directions to Mrs. Hanson's house?" "Sure do." When we got to Mrs. Hanson's house, I parked beside a Chinese restaurant. The kind with Christmas lights in the front window and a generic sounding name that changes with every new owner. We made our way to a red ranch house with a bug zapper on the front porch. It's sickly blue glow flickered lazily as we rang the doorbell. We could hear footsteps of someone approaching. "Chloe Vale, I've been expecting you." The woman I assumed was Mrs. Hanson swept her up in a hug. The woman was dressed in a oversized red knit sweater. It looked comfortable, like one you get for a favorite cousin on their birthday. "Hi Mrs. Hanson, good to see you." "Oh sweetie, you know you can call me Barb." "I know, but old habits die hard. You will always be Mrs. Hanson to me." "I know that feeling." She replied affectionately. She took a step back from Chloe as she began to she survey me. " Vince O'Malley, nice to meet you." I stuck my hand out towards her. She gripped it with a surprising strength. At first glance Mrs. Hansen looked like the teacher who scolded you for sharpening your pencil during class and chain-smoked in the teachers longue during lunch. She was a shorter woman, about 5'5, but had what you would call presence. Her piercing grey eyes and slender nose were neatly framed by neatly permed silver hair. But when she looked at me, I could see her eyes weren't harsh. "Lovely to meet you. I've been expecting you both. Please come inside." As she turned to go back inside we followed her. "Does it feel weird being inside your teacher's house?" I asked Chloe. "It does feel odd," she admitted. "Half the time your teachers are like your parents when you are younger. You can't see them as anything other than a detached authority figure. It's why seeing a teacher out in public when you are a kid is so weird. It's like peering behind the curtain and seeing the real person." "That is so true." Mrs. Hanson had let us to a comfortably looking den with inviting couches. The inside of her house looked exactly like I imagined an old teacher's house. Small and neat, but filled with trinkets. Random gifts from students sucking up for a good grade, and some from genuinely grateful students. I counted several porcelain apples and pencil shaped bookends on the mantelpiece alone. I could imagine Mrs. Hanson sitting up late at night, grading papers with a red sharpie, the TV blaring in the background. "Please have a seat you two. Welcome to my home. It's good to see you Chloe, been a long time hasn't it?" "Yes it has Mrs. Hansen. Good to see you too," "Who is the handsome young man, your boyfriend?" I saw Chloe flush slightly at this. "He used to date Allison," I couldn't help but notice how she didn't answer the woman's question, but didn't flat out say no either. Mrs. Hanson shook her head and sighed when Allison's name was mentioned. "Such a shame about her. But when I found out what happened I wasn't surprised. Her mother did the same thing once." "Did what once?" Chloe asked "Tried to kill herself. Although Mrs. Dunbar wasn't successful at it. Not that she ever really wanted to be. You know the old saying about people who say they want to hurt themselves?" I nodded that I did. "In her case, Clara Dunbar wanted attention from her husband. I assure you that had she truly wanted to end it all, she would known how to do that as a doctor's daughter." "Good point," "Was that what made him want a divorce?" I asked the older woman. "It was part of it no doubt. It was kept very quiet around here. That was in about 2004. Allison was taken out of school for a little while. Frank Ballard, our principal told me the Dunbars was leaving town for a family emergency. Months later a nurse at the local hospital confirmed it. Clara tried to swallow a bunch of pills." I felt goose bumps begin snaking their way up my arms. She must have known what her mother had done. Even if she didn't at the time, Allison must have figured it out later on. Chloe herself looked like she had just swallowed something incredibly unpleasant. "Do you know what triggered it?" "No I don't. Some people are just predisposed to hurting themselves you know. Might be through booze, drugs, food, or anything risky, but the idea is the same. Some people need death to be closing to feel alive. But I do know that in the months proceeding it, Allison's work in class had suffered. She was actually a pretty good student when she set her mind to it." Mrs. Hanson had the forlorn torn of one thinking what if. It was something I have done countless times about this subject. "Chloe, did Allison ever mention her mother attempting such a thing before?" I asked in what was a surprisingly calm voice. She took a deep breath before answering. "After I had known her a while, she mentioned in passing that her mother had a bad reaction to some medication and had to go to the hospital. That happened in a previous place they lived." Her voice was even, but her eyes said that on the inside, she felt the same as me. I suddenly remembered those messages I got after we broke up, asking me if I missed Allison and whatever. Was her death in the hospital not her first attempt? I didn't know, but it seemed likely. I have to admit that at this point, it seems that Allison was far more dangerous to herself than she ever was to me. Mrs. Hanson sat upright in her chair. I could tell the old teacher was getting ready to deliver an important lesson. "No matter how old a former student becomes, we can't help but always see them as the child in our class. For better or worse, we never forget our students as we knew them." She adjusted the antique locket around her neck before continuing. "Allison," she spoke the name delicately, "was a very interesting girl. I will never forget the day she stepped foot into my classroom. She was one of those girls who you just got your attention. She also had her own unique way of interacting with others." "What do you mean by that?" "You ever see documentaries of primitive tribes living in the jungle?" I looked at Chloe momentarily before answering. "Of course." "You don't understand what exactly they're saying, but you can tell the pecking order. Who sits where and with who. They have their own rituals. That's what teaching can be like." I knew exactly what she meant. Just as in real estate, one rule of power is that location is everything. "So what did you observe?" I asked. "Times may change, but human nature doesn't. Allison grew up watching her mother being put on a pedestal and doing whatever she pleased. Deference is the best word I think. Allison's family was used to a certain level of deference from their peers. Or it started out as deference." "What did it turn into?" "Something else I've learned from teaching. Power is like mountain climbing; the higher you go, the more perilous the ascent becomes. In an animal kingdom, there is always a rival waiting to take your place." "So who wanted to take Mrs. Dunbar's place?" Mrs. Hanson gave an amused chuckle to my question. "More like who didn't want to take her place. The ones who openly despised her never had a shot. They had nothing to gain or lose by hating her, so they never bothered to be sly. But the ones close to her who smiled at her the widest and praised her the loudest, that's another story. She managed to stay on her golden perch for long enough. Too long in most people's opinion." "So how did she lose it?" "People try to get any type of power in any way they can. Kids will pick on another kid for a pathetic reason. Here's what that's really about. It's never about what they pretend it's about. It's just a means of putting that other kid in their place. That's it. Kids are vicious that way and adults can be uncannily similar. Clara could be a pain in the ass perfectionist about the annual gala, or a thousand other trivial matters. Know why?" "To let people that they had flaws and that she saw them." The phrase made me think of all the times Allison could be a real bitch at the drop of a hat. It wasn't a pleasant feeling. "Good man," she turned to Chloe approvingly. "You did well seeking him out," she commented, seeming rather pleased with herself. She leaned back in her chair before addressing us both again. "She would let people know in her way that she knew their baggage. That she felt so bad your husband was fucking the waitress at the café on Elm and what a scumbag he was and your secret was safe with her." "But she never kept it quiet did she?" "Most times she did in fact. Unless she had wanted to let it slip for a reason. Clara Dunbar knew how to make use of people's private humiliation. So she didn't lose any face around here per say, she just decided to pick up stakes and leave while she was ahead. You see, it turns out the she had a bit of a situation on her hands. Her brother." "What happened to him?" "No one around her really knows for certain. Whispers were exchanged in the ladies room and everywhere else in town; they ran the gauntlet from amusing to downright outrageous." "I didn't know Allison had an uncle," Chloe replied. "Course not sweetheart. He was the kind of uncle you don't talk about in polite company. No, not that kind." Mrs. Hanson added when she saw our reaction. " It's sad to say, but had he only been a friendly uncle, Allison's mother probably wouldn't have cared." I felt a sick lurch in my chest as she said this. "What did he do?" "He got mixed up in some nasty business. My late husband was a cop and he knew from some contacts that Allison's uncle had a history of ties with unsavory people. Was in some sort of business deal and the wrong people didn't get their money. Well, as often happens in these matters, someone ended up dead and Uncle........whatever his name was, needed a lawyer. A damn good one. The kind with a Mercedes and Esq. printed on his business cards." "That's crazy" "Oh wait, there's more. We knew what Clara hated wasn't that her brother had gotten into that sort of thing. It was that he botched it and now the family was at risk of being implicated in a scandal. From what I know, he could have been Jack the Ripper and Clara wouldn't have cared. So long as he didn't publicly embarrass her." "Of course," Chloe practically spat the last word out with a searing contempt. "Many people pretend to be something they're not. Hell, a lot of times people openly encourage it. The problems come is when a façade crumbles, which is always does in the end." "And when you can't pretend anymore, people turn on you." "That's right. So what do you do when that illusion is at risk falling apart?" "Depends on what exactly is being threatened I guess." I shrugged my arms. "What exactly was at stake?" "Not just the family image, which was paramount, but it's financial standing as well. In a place like Maple Bluffs, you can have status without money and keep your influence. Or you can have money without prestige and be respected, but losing both money and respectability is fatal. It's why so many 'old money types' are really broke but no one cares." "The name is their asset. You need at least the front of wealth." Chloe finished. It was an idea I suspected she knew intimately well. Mrs. Hanson waged her finger in a 'nailed it' gesture. "But she wasn't wrong, was she Mrs. Hanson?" I added. "Nope. Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Clara knew better than anyone that people willingly tolerate almost anything. The one misstep people are merciless over is failure. It comes in many forms, but look at history, your own relationships, and human behavior. Generally, humanity is intolerable towards what it perceives as failure." That was one of the most intelligent things anyone has ever said to me. Human history is merciless towards what it brands as failure. Most people only know Napoleon for his defeat at Waterloo. One of the most brilliant men in modern military with countless victories and other achievements; yet the one he is most identified with was his defeat. "So when the old image fails you create a new façade, or move to a place where people will buy the old one." "Well done my boy. In a city with a million people, no one would have cared about Clara's brother. But here, gossip is it's own little black market. It fuels everything; it lurks behind every corner like some boogieman, waiting to devour the next victim." I had never heard it put quite that way before. "Her brother was found dead in a trailer about a while later. Died in a fire. That was about the same time Allison's father was last heard from." "Mrs. Arlington says that not only did he want custody of Allison specifically, he disappeared after saying he would check back in with her after Mrs. Dunbar's trip to see her mother." "Mrs. Arlington?" she asked puzzled. "My neighbor. Turns out she knew Allison's father. Did you know a legal secretary named Sharon who used to work for a lawyer in town?" "Vaguely. She was a nice lady. Why do you ask?" "That's her, Sharon Arlington. According to her, Allison's father was worried about his wife and he disappeared after Mrs. Dunbar went to visit her mother. She said that Mrs. Dunbar hated her mother." "Oh yeah, no love ever contaminated the relationship Clara Dunbar and Silvia." " Allison would never talk about her grandmother," Chloe confirmed. "Every time it came up, Allison would change the subject. That was the same grandmother that Clara Dunbar took out a big life insurance policy right before Mr. Dunbar disappeared." "Oh shit," was all Mrs. Hanson could say. "That's not good." "Do you know anything about her grandmother?" "No," Mrs. Hanson replied. "Wish I did." "From what I know, the two were a lot alike." Chloe said. "That wouldn't surprise me. I've seen it countless times; people who are a lot alike are either mortal enemies or the best of friends. Very little in between." "Allison did once mention to me that her grandma and her bridge club knew more dirt going in in their old town than the police blotter," I remembered suddenly. "He was a doctor right?" Mrs. Hanson asked, a statement Chloe nodded a yes to. "That explains it. Everyone wants access to the latest medical gossip." "What do you know about Allison's father?" "Not a bad guy. A straight shooter and I always liked him, unlike his wife. But he was in over his head, as would any of us in his situation." "How?" "For starters, he was the kind of guy who always tried to see the best in others. In other words, a sitting duck for someone like his wife." "So what changed?" "I don't know if anything truly changed. I think Mr. Dunbar just realized something had been amiss for a while. It just became obvious." "Something wasn't right with Mrs. Dunbar." "Correct. From what my husband told me and what I can piece together, Clara's brother disappeared about the same time Mr. Dunbar was getting suspicious. I remember seeing him around town and his entire demeanor had changed. It was like he was looking at everything differently. The two disappearances were almost certainly linked." There was another feeling I knew well; an event that forces you to re-evaluate everything you think you know about people around you. Mrs. Hanson tugged on a clip on earring and sipped at her glass of iced tea. "I sure would've been worried if I was him. While I can't say why he seemed to disappear, I can tell you what I heard. Everyone had a theory which they were so happy to share, especially after the Dunbar's left town. The favorite was that he ran off for another woman and they moved to escape the shame. A close second was that he did business with the wrong people and he disappeared in order to pay the piper." "What do you think?" I could see her brow furrow as soon as I asked. She took a deep breath before answering. "I think someone did business with the wrong people, but it wasn't him. I think it was something ugly and big enough to rattle him. I also think Clara knew about what was on his mind and perhaps did something about it." "That makes sense, since someone knew Mrs. Arlington and he were going through her stuff when she was out of the house." I felt my throat tighten up as I recalled this. "Whether she did it herself or not, Allison's mother is responsible for her father's disappearance. She never wanted to actually die from taking too many pills you see. That was all a bid for power, she wanted attention and leverage. Happens all the time you see. Especially when a someone is desperate to keep a significant other close. Just like in that movie with Glenn Close and Michael Douglas." I knew exactly what movie she meant. It was Fatal Attraction, a movie I could probably do without seeing again for a long time. As I remembered it, I felt a cold wave wash over me. I wonder if that was why Allison did what she did in the hospital. Was it angst over Millstone, a man who didn't want her anymore? "It's like when a kid runs away to make their parents all worried about them," Chloe added as I wrestling with my thoughts. "That's exactly right. Now if you two will excuse me, I have to use the bathroom. It's these new damn pills they have me on." She left us in what seemed like deafening silence. I looked at Chloe and she looked just as stunned as I did. I had no idea what to say to her, so I stared intently at the lush red carpet on the floor. Before we knew it, Mrs. Hanson was walking back to us. "So where was I?" she asked rhetorically as she resumed her seat. "Long after the fact, my husband did some research on Allison's grandfather. It turns out that he got into a bit of trouble himself. Seemed he was a bit, oh what's the word, generous with prescriptions. Morphine in particular." "Oh shit." "Oh shit is right. Fortunately for him, things were a lot different back then. It was kept quiet and he got off with a slap on the wrist. Who knows if he stopped, or just didn't get caught again." "I'm bet he just didn't get caught again," I offered. "I would suspect the same." "So Allison's father disappeared about the same time her uncle who also vanished was risking the family's reputation and status, a status built upon a false image." "Correct. Chloe has told you a bit about their wealth?" "Yes," "They lived in one of the nicest houses in town. Over on Belmont Avenue. It's still there in fact." "Speaking of their house, Sharon says that after Mr. Dunbar disappeared, she got some phone calls. Mostly heavy breathing but one told her in no uncertain terms to leave the Dunbar matter alone. They even knew she had been at their house with Jerry Dunbar." "Then it's true. They really did had some shady ties. I don't know if you know this, but for years Missouri was the meth capital of the Country." "No I didn't." "Well, Allison's uncle didn't just die in a fire; he died in a fire caused by an explosion. He and another guy were trying to make meth. Not well I might add. None of this got out, but my husband managed to find it as well." "Why didn't it get out?" "Another meth explosion in a trailer and couple of nameless gangbangers dead? Not exactly breaking news. The fact that he didn't have the name Dunbar also helped a lot. You asked how Clara confronted the issue of her brother, well that's it, they just didn't react. Every family has their black sheep and no one can be blamed for that. In fact, had people found out she would have made them feel sorry for her. That's how clever she was. I do have to give her that; she was a clever one. Way smarter than most people around here. Her husband was no fool, but she was far ahead of him." "On that note, when I met Allison she was the manager of a bar. After she died and they started looking into the place, they found that according to the official paperwork, the registered owner is her mother." "Interesting, but that doesn't surprise me at all. I could easily see her putting her daughter up as the pretty girl drawing people in while she was the one running the show from behind the scenes. That's pretty much how she was around here." "After we broke up, she sort of fell apart." "I see. Why did you guys break up?" "She cheated on me and had developed a drug problem." "My deepest sympathies." "Thank you." "As u you can see, drug problems aren't exactly uncommon in her family and infidelity usually isn't far behind there. Personally I think Clara could have cared less about her husband, but couldn't abide someone leaving her, or the implications that might have." I knew what Mrs. Hanson meant all too well. Allison didn't give two shits about me until I was the one who ended things. "The rotten apple," I felt myself blurt out. Mrs. Hanson smiled as if I had just given her some small treat. "I like you." "Thank you," "You wanted my opinion, well here it is. While the stuff about Allison's father or uncle is troubling, that's not what scares me." She removed her cat eye glasses and looked genuinely worried for the first time since we arrived. "What scares me is all the stuff we don't know. Because I won't lie to you, I think there is a lot more where that came from." As we were leaving shortly after that, she wrapped me in a tight hug. Whispering close to my ear, she said "Take good care of her and be careful." "I will." By now the humid morning had given way to a balmy afternoon. But as Chloe and I walked to the car, deep down I still felt cold.
It seems I've reached the maximum 40,000 characters Reddit will allow me to type, so from 160 and beyond. I will be making a new list tomorrow with everybodys new Mandela effects they've sent me that I've neglected to add and I'll still be updating it with numbers and links. That'll be all for now. (Mandela Effect:Nelson Mandela died in prison in the 80's, then in 2013. Hence the name.) https://www.reddit.com/MandelaEffect/comments/4kba52/ill_constantly_update_a_list_for_you_guys_to/ 160.(Tennis Player name change.)Chris Everette/Chris Everet/Chris Evert (Couldn't find a good article that related to this.) 161.(Football Player.) Walter Peyton/Walter Payton https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1817&dat=19991102&id=dzsdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=QaYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4784,191418&hl=en 162.(Reversed Reality.)Peace sign upside down from what it is today. http://api.ning.com/files/wwX5omSBSN0tkiQgyKUDbOudibkboUQqst2se2NDBn-WY1zH50orG1jDf53ZB9Z7jQw0Zw1Wz-C0aZUNtIa5iva6f-9erA-b/peacesymbalt2vc8.jpg (Like shown above.) 163.(Frozen Food name change.)Gordon's Fish/Gorton's Fish https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1755&dat=19390224&id=cXccAAAAIBAJ&sjid=j2QEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5733,4354140&hl=en 164.(Movie Quote change.)"Get your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape."/"Take your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape." (Nothing.) 165.(Movie Quote change.)"Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore."/"Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore." https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=950&dat=19850910&id=eApZAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZFkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6669,2081387&hl=en 166.(Spelling change.)Vacumn/Vacuum https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2002&dat=19830306&id=LPZVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3UANAAAAIBAJ&pg=1659,1028032&hl=en 167.(Celebrity death that never happened.)Gene Wilder died, but is now suddenly still alive. (Nothing.) 168.(Grammar change.)Ofcourse/Of course https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=392&dat=20021225&id=FGtOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ez8DAAAAIBAJ&pg=1962,8952476&hl=en 169.(University name change)John Hopkins University/Johns Hopkins University https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=950&dat=19150601&id=FYcLAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-VMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2250,3020042&hl=en 170.(Celebrity death that never happened.)Betty White dying a while back only to find out she's alive. (Nothing.) 171.(Celebrity death that never happened.)Danny DeVito dying a while back only to find out he's alive. (Nothing.) 172.(Movie Quote change.)"Hello Clarice"/"Good evening Clarice." (Nothing.) 173.(Cereal Company name change.)Kellog's/Kellogg's (Nothing.) 174.(Snack name change.)Rice Crispies/Rice Krispies https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1320&dat=20030814&id=BupWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WuwDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1162,2725821&hl=en 175.(Toy Company name change.)Playschool/Playskool (Nothing good on it.) 176.(Light Fixture name change.)Light Bright/Lite Brite (Nothing.) 177.(Beer name change.)Anheiser-Busch/Anheuser-Busch https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2457&dat=19920318&id=-rBJAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vg4NAAAAIBAJ&pg=2497,700665&hl=en 178.(Amusement Park name change.)Disney World/Walt Disney World https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1243&dat=19860928&id=bY9TAAAAIBAJ&sjid=oIYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6745,6664936&hl=en 179.(Anatomy change.)Rib cage is now closed instead of open like people remember. (Nothing.) 180.(Earlier or later than remembered.)The song "Pumped Up Kicks" came out earlier than people recall. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDTZ7iX4vTQ 181.(Different date.)Columbine Massacre happened in 1999 instead of 1996 like people remember. (Nothing.) 182.(Different date.)Segways were around before 1999 according to some people. (Nothing.) 183.(Things that have "always" been a certain way.)People don't remember a gimp being in the Pulp Fiction movie. (Nothing.) 184.(Geography change.)South America is further east and not under North America where people remember it. (Nothing.) 185.(Geography change.)New Zealand is closer to Asia than people remember. (Nothing.) 186.(Date change.)Chemtrail reports from dates as early as the 60's are popping up when people remember them starting around the 90's. 187.(Writer name change.)Edgar Allen Poe/Edgar Allan Poe https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=348&dat=19760722&id=drVMAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KzMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2789,2851936&hl=en 188.(Movie change.)Grease movie car is white/red 189.(Electronic Company name change.)Phillips Electronics Company/Philips Electronics Company (Nothing.) 190.(Coffee or tea name change.)Andersons Tea/Sandersons Tea https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1298&dat=20010120&id=VOwyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=cQgGAAAAIBAJ&pg=4361,4650827&hl=en 191.(Laundry Detergent name change.)Downing Laundry Detergent/Downy Laundry Detergent (Nothing.) 192.(Laundry Detergent name change.)Cheers Laundry Detergent/Cheer Laundry Detergent (Nothing.) 193.(Online Company name change.)Aplica Application Portal/Applica Application Portal (Nothing.) 194.(Flag change.)The French flag used to go horizontal, when it's always been vertical. (Nothing.) 195.(Movie Quote change.)"That's another fine mess you've gotten us into."/"Here's another fine mess you've gotten us into."/"Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into."(Laurel and Hardy quote.) . (Numerous articles with text, but not relating to the actual quote being mentioned.) 196.(Geography change.)People don't remember Sicily being stuck to Italy's toe. (Nothing.) 197.(Geography change.)People don't remember the gulf of Carpentaria being so spiky. (Nothing.) 198.(Sports Brand name change.)Reeboks/Reebok https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1955&dat=19880615&id=D7gxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WuUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6140,6575103&hl=en 199.(Ramen Noodle name change.)Cup 'O' Noodle/Cup Noodles (Nothing.) 200.(Geography change.)The Panama Canal going North and South instead of East and West. 201.(Geography change.)The Bermuda Islands are closer to Florida than people remember. (Nothing.) 202.(Geography change.)People don't remember islands off the coast of California. (Nothing.) 203.(Geography change.)Asian islands closer to Australia than people remember. (Nothing.) 204.(Geography change.)England is East of France while people remember it North. (Nothing.) 205.(Geography change.)Iceland is closer to Greenland than people remember. (Nothing.) 206.(Geography change.)Poland is farther west of Germany than people recall. (Nothing.) 207.(Geography change.)Australia is now closer to Indonesia. (Nothing.) 208.(Historic Landmark change.)The faces of Mount Rushmore are looking in different directions than before.(That is also new.) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Mountrushmore.jpg 209.(Beer name change.)Bud Lite/Bud Light https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1817&dat=20060902&id=FWg0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=zqcEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5096,276950&hl=en 210.(Clothing Brand name change.)Haines/Hanes https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2209&dat=19261203&id=_oNAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=cqQMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1909,4521959&hl=en 211.(Candy name change.)Balmer Chocolate/Palmer Chocolate (Nothing.) 212.(Store name change.)Roch Bros/Roche Bros (Nothing.) 213.(Store name change.)Tommy HillfigeTommy Hilfiger https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1915&dat=20080424&id=J0lSAAAAIBAJ&sjid=iTYNAAAAIBAJ&pg=3753,1771979&hl=en 214.(Shampoo or lotion name change.)Finess Shampoo/Finesse Shampoo (Nothing.) 215.(Fictional Character name change.)Spike from Gremlins/Stripe from Gremlins (Nothing.) 216.(Toy name change.)Playdough/Play-Doh (Nothing.) 217.(Action Figure or doll name change.)Cupie doll/Kewpie doll https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2002&dat=20010322&id=uV0vAAAAIBAJ&sjid=PtsFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5722,5803765&hl=en 218.(Famous Singer name change.)Laura Brenigan/Laura Branigan (Nothing.) 219.(Famous Singer name change.)Bob SegaBob Seger https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=932&dat=19951210&id=ZbdPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vFMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4439,1594903&hl=en 220.(Restaurant name change.)Western SizzleWestern Sizzlin https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1755&dat=19871012&id=3vMcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=rnIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2846,3928412&hl=en 221.(Toothpaste name change.)Colegate Toothpaste/Colgate Toothpaste (Nothing.) 222.(Earth or outer space change.)Jupiter being more than 11 times bigger than Earth. (Nothing.) 223.(Celebrity death that happened or didn't.)Jeff Buckley dying in 1997 even though people remembered him being alive past that, while other people remembering him dying years after this. (Nothing.) 224.(Celebrity death that happened or didn't.)Conrad Brain(Star of Different Stokes.) has died numerous times and dates. (Nothing.) 225.(Celebrity death that happened or didn't.)Mesach Taylor(For those of you who know him.) has died a couple different times. (Nothing.) 226.(Celebrity death that happened or didn't.)Jack Palace has died on more than one occasion according to some. (The guy who told me he and some people remember Dennis Miller saying in an interview with Bill O Reilly "Is it me, or does Jack Palace die every year?") (Nothing.) 227.(Reversed Reality.)Chevron logo red on top, blue on bottom./Chevron logo blue on top, red on bottom. (Nothing.) 228.(Reversed Reality.)One way signs have the colors reversed now. (Nothing.) 229.(Way something once was is now no longer that way.)Soft Suds having a dishwasher soap, and not just auto soap(There's only one supposed picture of Soft Suds dish soap, but after researching, I couldn't find it.) (Nothing.) 230.(New characters that have always existed.)The characters in Alice in Wonderland are new, and they don't recognize them.(I don't about this one, I remember all of the "new" characters. What do you guys think?) (Nothing.) 231.(Confused Dates.)Many people have issues with agreeing on a date for the Challenger explosion.(1984, 1985, and 1986 are years people remember it happening.) (Nothing.) 232.(Changed or altered T.V Show or movie title.)Ghost Hunters(Was it called TAPS before? People remember it being called TAPS.) (The team is called TAPS, so that may be enough evidence.) 233.(Double change name and different date.)Mother Theresa/Mother Teresa(Was she a saint before 2016? Some people remember her being one before then.) (Nothing.) 234.(Missing person actually found.)Many recall Agatha Christie never being found in 1926. However, "we all know" she was found 10 days later, but we were never given an explanation on how she was found. (Nothing.) 235.(Death that never happened.)Brian Dennehy dying, but he's still alive. (Nothing.) 236.(Death that never happened.)Charles Spencer died, he's still alive though. (Nothing.) 237.(Name change.)The Cohen brothers/The Coen brothers.(John Coen, Rob Coen, and Charles S. Coen.) 238.(Death that never happened.)The death of David Soul, he's still alive. (Nothing.) 239.The death of Dick Clark, others remember another death of the same Dick Clark. (Nothing.) 240.(Death that happened before the actual day of the death.)Dick Van Patten(Died before his death in June of 2015.) (Nothing. 241.(Died more than once.)Dom DeLuise's numerous deaths. (Nothing.) 242.(Death that never happened.)Don Rickles dying even though he's still alive. (Nothing.) 243.(Death that happened before the real death.)Ernest Borgnine(Dying before his death in 2012.) (Nothing.) 244.(Died before actual death.)Forrest J. Ackerman(Different death dates from his "actual" death in 2008.) (Nothing.) 245.(Died before actual death.)Mister Rogers dying before his death in 2003. (Nothing.) 246.(Died before actual death.)Helen Thomas dying a different date then her 2013 one. (Nothing.) 247.(Died more ways than one.)Henry Ford's not agreed upon numerous causes of death. (Nothing.) 248.(Died before actual death.)(Jayne Meadows Allen(Dying in 2015 or earlier.) (Nothing.) 249.(Died then came back to life.)Jerry Lewis(Not Jerry Lee Lewis.) dying in late 2013, early 2014, but still alive as of October of 2014. (Nothing.) 250.(Died more ways than one.)Jim Henson's not agreed upon numerous causes of death. (Nothing.) 251.(Died then came back to life.)Jimmy Swaggart passing away even though he's still alive. (Nothing.) 252.(Died more than once and in multiple areas.)John Denver's not agreed upon date and location of death. (Nothing.) 253.(Died before actual death.)John Lennon passing away a different date from the one he actually died on. (Nothing.) 254.(Lunch meat name change.)Oscar MeyeOscar Mayer https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19590701&id=Fj0aAAAAIBAJ&sjid=xSUEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2111,454231&hl=en 255.(Position change.)The sun's position in the Milky Way has moved from the outskirts to halfway from the center. (Nothing.) 256.(Died before actual death.)Do you remember Shirley Temple's death as a child? You might be shocked to hear she lived until 2014. (Nothing.) 257.(Geography change.)The Bahamas are closer to Florida and Cuba and are inside the Bermuda Triangle now. (Nothing.) 258.("New Geography" that's always been there.)Venezuela now has always had a lake known as Lake Maracaibo, which has lightning storms every night. (Nothing.) 259.(T.V Host name change.)Kathy Lee Gifford/Kathie Lee Gifford https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1734&dat=20040206&id=7lMqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=C1MEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3485,3047293&hl=en 260.(Singer name change.)Kate Perry/Katy Perry (Nothing.) 261.(Different Date.)Leonardo DiCaprio winning an Oscar before 2016. (Nothing.) 262.(Died then came back to life.)Li Qi(Chinese comedian.) still alive as of early 2014 even though people thought he died. (Nothing.) 263.(Died then came back to life then died again.)Muhammad Ali's 2009 death that never happened as he's still alive which now he's dead again. (Nothing.) 264.(Died on different dates.)Did Neil Armstrong pass in 2012, or 2013? People remember both years as his death year. (Nothing.) 265.(Was alive after death)Patrick Swayze making a full recovery and not dying, but he's dead in this reality. (Nothing.) 266.(Was dead even though still alive.)Peter Fonda dying while he's still alive. (Nothing.) 267.(Death that never happened.)Richard Chamberlain died in the 1990's, but came back to life. (Nothing.) 268.(Death that never happened.)Robert Crumb didn't actually die in the 1990's and is still alive. (Nothing.) 269.(Death before death.)Robert Stack died earlier than his actual death. (Nothing.) 270.(Died in more ways than one.)Rodney King died numerous times. (Nothing.) 271.(Actual death before supposed death.)Terry Pratchett dying in 2013 instead of 2015. (Nothing.) 272.(Alive after death.)The actor William Daniels still alive even though he passed in the early 2000's. 273.(Died before actual death.)The athlete Yogi Berra dying earlier than his actual death date. (Nothing.) 274.(Divorced while still together.)Some of you remember Will Smith and Jada Pinkett divorcing, but they're actually still together. (Nothing.) 275.(Different Date.)Not agreed upon date when writers' strike in Hollywood happened.(2007 or 2008.) (Nothing.) 276.(Certain way before it was a different way.)Adam's Bridge being fully above sea level in the late 20th century, while it's been partially submerged underwater ever since the 15th century. (Nothing.) 277.(Movie change.)Alternate ending to the movie Big. (Nothing.) 278.(Fictional Character Appearance change.)Carmen Sandiego used to wear a yellow trench coat people recall, none remember her having a red one. (Nothing.) 279.(Altered or different characters.)Characters in Cinderella that are no longer there, and never have been. (Nothing.) 280.(T.V Show name change.)Different Strokes/Diff'rent Strokes https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1696&dat=19781109&id=nw0dAAAAIBAJ&sjid=9pcEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6576,1927017&hl=en 281.(Altered or different characters.)Characters missing from big scene in Independence Day. (Nothing.) 282.(Altered or different scenes.)A scene is now missing from Jurassic Park. (Nothing.) 283.(Altered or different characters.)Some of the members of the Justice League are new or missing. (Nothing.) 284.(Altered or different actors.)Nicolas Cage starring in K-PAX, it's actually Kevin Spacey in that role. (Nothing.) 285.(More than one actor recalled being in a role.)One character played by two people in Married...With Children. (Nothing.) 286.(Dead character alive later in a series.)An important character dying in MASH dying, while it never happened at all in the story in this reality. (Nothing.) 287.(Different numbers.)Mystery Science Theater numbers in title(2000,3000, or 4000.) (Nothing.) 288.(Dead character alive later in a series.)Star Trek character Chakotay dying, even though it never happened in the story. (Nothing.) 289.(Different or altered scenes.)Important scene missing from Star Wars movie.(Never existed.) (Nothing.) 290.(Altered scenes, endings and predictions.)Scenes and endings from Terminator that didn't happen, as well as predicted scenes that existed, but never made it to the final movie. (Nothing.) 291.(Different or altered title, and ending.)Different title and ending with Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (Nothing.) 292.(Altered powers.)Alternate abilities of Professor X of X-Men. (Nothing.) 293.(Different pronunciation of words.) Arnold Schwarzenegger pronouncing "I'll be back" with a thicker accent on back in Terminator 2. Now, it sounds completely different than people remember. (Nothing.) 294.(Popular natural occurrence name change.)Haley's Comet/Halley's Comet https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=348&dat=19720526&id=eeNMAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wTUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3361,4095085&hl=en 295.(Different Dates.)Flushed Away before its release in 2006. (Nothing.) 296.(Died in different ways and died more than once.)Abraham Lincoln dying differently and his son Tad dying on a different date. (Nothing.) 297.(Died in different ways.)Martin Luther King Jr. dying differently than being shot with a gun. (Nothing.) 298.(Dying before actual death and not dying at all.)Gaddafi dying before he did and others say he fled his country. (Nothing.) 299.(Altered Appearance.)Benito Mussolini looking completely different than he's depicted today. (Nothing.) 300.(Death before it happened.)Osama Bin Laden's death before it happened. (Nothing.) 301.(Different deaths, causes of death and time being something.)Ronald Reagan's not agreed upon time of presidency, time of death, and how he died. (Nothing.) 302.(Commercial Quote change.)The Mikey Life Cereal commercials.("Mikey likes everything."/"Mikey eats everything."/"Mikey eats anything."/"Mikey hates everything.")(Which one was it to you, people remember them all.) (Nothing.) 303.(Commercial Quote change.)"Nobody does it like Sara Lee."/"Nobody doesn't like Sara Lee." https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2479&dat=20001224&id=yoc1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=jyUMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1110,5061380&hl=en 304.(Spelling change.)Liason/Liaison (Nothing.) 305.(Soft drink name change.)Coke Zero/Coca-Cola Zero https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2213&dat=20051105&id=9_cvAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ezkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2491,924861&hl=en 306.(Spelling change.)Stalagtite/Stalactite https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2245&dat=19540925&id=IqgzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=s-4HAAAAIBAJ&pg=5373,2750803&hl=en 307.(Vacuum name change.)Bissel/Bissell https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=799&dat=19150507&id=KhJNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HUgDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2930,1585925&hl=en 308.(Restaurant name change.)IHOPS/IHOP (Nothing.) 309.(Beer name change.)Johnny Walker Whiskey/Johnnie Walker Whiskey https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19770602&id=upBAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8qQMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2898,292630&hl=en 310.(Altered Character Appearance.)Didn't Dolly from Moonraker wear braces in the opening part of the movie?She no longer does. (Nothing.) 311.(Toy name change.)Rubix Cube/Rubik's Cube (Nothing.) 312.(Soft Drink name change.)Mt Dew/Mtn Dew https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1320&dat=19951012&id=10hWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IOsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3502,2650295&hl=en 313.(Restaurant name change.)The Olive Garden/Olive Garden https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1129&dat=19900301&id=B-8NAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Y24DAAAAIBAJ&pg=1876,325793&hl=en 314.(Author name change.)J.R.R. Tolken/J.R.R. Tolkien (Nothing.) 315.(Website name change.)eBay/ebay (It's still on the link, but when you enter, the B is lower cased.) 316.(Vinegar name change.)Bragg's/Bragg (Nothing.) Penzoil/Pennzoil 317.(Celebrity Quote change.)"You like me. You really like me."/"You like me. Right now. You like me."(Sally Field at the 1995 Oscars.) (Nothing.) 318.(History change.)Dwight D. Eisenhower on U.S dime./Franklin D. Roosevelt on U.S dime. (Nothing.) 319.(Celebrity Actress name change.)Sally Fields/Sally Field https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=861&dat=19641028&id=jMIdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=NlkEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6712,8142278&hl=en 320.(Soap name change.)Mr. Bubbles/Mr. Bubble https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1338&dat=19580716&id=x_1XAAAAIBAJ&sjid=BfcDAAAAIBAJ&pg=999,3521468&hl=en 321.(Singer name change.)Axel Rose/Axl Rose https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1906&dat=19910703&id=OfcfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=bQEFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1158,2922152&hl=en 322.(Singer name change.)Pete Townsend/Pete Townshend https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1696&dat=19910614&id=RRkhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=m0cEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6686,3842317&hl=en 323.(Theme song lyric change.)"Catch the pigeon."/"Stop the pigeon."(Dick Dastardly theme song.) (Nothing.) 324.(Water name change.)Poland Springs/Poland Spring (Nothing.) 325.(Altered Appearance of animal.)Russian Blue Cat commonly has blue fur and blue eyes, now they commonly have green eyes instead. (Nothing.) 326.(Alive after death.)Kirk Douglas passing away even though he's alive. (Nothing.) 327.(Candy name change.)Taffy Taffy/Laffy Taffy (Nothing.) 328.(Beer name change.)Captain Morgan's Rum/Captain Morgan Rum (Nothing.) 329.(Production Company name change.)Metro-Goldwyn MeyeMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2209&dat=19820716&id=MaIrAAAAIBAJ&sjid=hvwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4201,2832801&hl=en 330.(Store name change.)K-Mart/Kmart https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1350&dat=19810707&id=PlpPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=NwMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6160,4295060&hl=en 331.(Famous Actress name change.)Katherine Hepburn/Katharine Hepburn https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1298&dat=19760920&id=Q-ZLAAAAIBAJ&sjid=A4wDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3311,2606030&hl=en 332.(Movie name change.)The Adams Family/The Addams Family 333.(Makeup name change.)Maybeline/Maybelline (Nothing.) 334.(Gelatin name change.)Jello/Jell-O https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1980&dat=19950329&id=sL4oAAAAIBAJ&sjid=QgYGAAAAIBAJ&pg=2329,6950772&hl=en 335.(Store name change.)Sav a lot/Save a lot https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1842&dat=19890604&id=Q2IeAAAAIBAJ&sjid=hsgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6180,514388&hl=en 336.(History change.)The John F. Kennedy assassination happens differently now. (Nothing.) 337.(History change.)Hawaii became a part of the union in the 1950's instead of earlier as you may remember. (Nothing.) 338.(History Change.)The Vietnam War happened in 1955 instead of the 60's. (Nothing.) 339.(Fictional Mascot altered appearance.)The Count Chocula mascot looks different, but has always looked the way it does now. (Nothing.) 340.(Soft Drink name change.)Cocacola/Coca-Cola(Coke Cola for some as well.) (Nothing.) 341.(Soft Drink name change.)Dr. PeppeDr Pepper (Nothing.) 342.(Store name change.)Lowes/Lowe's https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1734&dat=19970930&id=55cbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wlIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4990,3081808&hl=en 343.(Company name change.)Vick's/Vicks https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/d5/7d/94/d57d946b0ef3df896e1d09eaf207693e.jpg 344.(Restaurant name change.)Quizno's/Quiznos https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&dat=19980930&id=R4xXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=BfIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4781,6740302&hl=en 345.(Chip Brand name change.)Lays/Lay's https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1356&dat=19950406&id=R39RAAAAIBAJ&sjid=xgcEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3169,3754024&hl=en 346.(Medicine name change.)Peptobismol/Pepto-Bismol (Nothing.) 347.(Redirects to something different.)Mandela Effect in Wikipedia or Wiki now redirects to confabulation instead which is misunderstood memories, made up memories, and altered memories.(So, they basically say we have a shitty memory like we haven't heard that before.) (Nothing.) 348.(T.V Show name change.)The Andy Griffin Show/The Andy Griffith Show https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1356&dat=19620803&id=VgcTAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EgUEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6574,496414&hl=en 349.(T.V Show name change.)Bewitched-Darrin and Samantha Stevens/Darrin and Samantha Stevens (Nothing.) 350.(Snack name change.)Marshmellow/Marshmallow https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2199&dat=19820606&id=BI0yAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-ucFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3378,847756&hl=en 351.(Quote change.)"Dearly Beloved, we are here to celebrate this thing called life."/"Dearly Beloved, we are gathered here today to get through this thing called life." (Nothing.) 352.(Quote change.)"There's something else, the afterlife, a life of never ending happiness."/"There's something else, the after world, a world of never ending happiness." (Nothing.) 353.(Actor name change.)Andy Griffin/Andy Griffith https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1356&dat=19620803&id=VgcTAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EgUEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6574,496414&hl=en 354.(Movie title change.)Bridget Jones' Diary/Bridget Jones's Diary https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1320&dat=20010411&id=d1FWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EOwDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6622,2564481&hl=en 355.(Gum change.)Orbitz Gum/Orbit Gum https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1914&dat=20080202&id=cz8pAAAAIBAJ&sjid=I2YFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2352,284888&hl=en 356.(Restaurant name change.)Lil' Ceasar's/Little Caesar's (Nothing.) 357.(Synthesizer name change.)Moog Lil' Phatty/Moog Little Phatty(Personal Mandela effect messaged to me.) (Nothing.) 358.(Frozen Food name change.)Tostino's/Totino's (Nothing.) 359.(Candy name change.)Cow Tails/Cow Tales (Nothing.) 360.(Company name change.) (Nothing.) 361.(Geography change.) The Great Pyramid Of Giza changed position from the two lesser sized ones. (Nothing.) 362.(Movie title name change.)Transformers:Dark Side of the Moon/Transformers:Dark of the Moon (Nothing.) 363.(Candy name change.)Blue Ribbon Chocolate/Blue Riband Chocolate https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1243&dat=19880927&id=Fh1VAAAAIBAJ&sjid=PZQDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7099,360927&hl=en 364.(Song lyric change.)"We are the champions." then ends./"We are the champions of the world." then ends. (Nothing.) 365.(Inventor change in Appearance.)Eli Whitney(Inventor of Cotton Gin.) Caucasian/Eli Whitney(Inventor of Cotton Gin.) African American (Nothing.) 366.(Celebrity death that never happened.)Ricky Tomlinson(U.K Actor.) is now alive even though he died a few years ago. (Nothing.) 367.(Painting change.)Mona Lisa appears to be smiling even more now than before. (Nothing.) 368.(Energy Bar name change.)Cliff Energy BaClif Energy Bar (Nothing.) 369.(Internet Tool name change.)Piccasa Web Albums/Picasa Web Albums (Nothing.) 369.(Pickle name change.)Vlassic/Vlasic https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1988&dat=19750106&id=lKMxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XKwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2657,866851&hl=en 370.(Geography change.)The Island of Malta is one lone island./The Island of Malta shares water with another distinct island known as the Island of Gozo. (Nothing.) 371.(Song Lyric change.)Michael Jackson's Billie Jean "The child is not my son."/The kid is not my son." (Nothing.) 372.(Song Lyric change.)Phil Collins's In the Air Tonight "Hold on."/"Oh no."/"Oh lord." (Nothing.) 373.(Store Logo change.)Staples has normal white text./The Staples L is shaped to look like a staple. (Nothing.) 374.(Beer name change.)St. Paulie Girl/St. Pauli Girl https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1916&dat=20050426&id=h24rAAAAIBAJ&sjid=L3UFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1816,3303541&hl=en 375.(Car Logo change.) Buick logo colors are different Blue White Red/Red White Blue (Nothing.) 376.(Mascot History change.) Mr. Clean is slowly losing all evidence of him being a genie. (Nothing.) 377.(Mascot appearance change.) Brawny Man no longer has a beard or axe. (Nothing.) 378.(Cereal name change.)Coco Puffs/Cocoa Puffs https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1243&dat=19700316&id=hABYAAAAIBAJ&sjid=E_cDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4368,847020&hl=en 379.(Pill name change.)Alieve/Aleve (Nothing.) 380.(Bandage name change.)Curaid/Curad (Nothing.) 381.(Candy Bar name change.)Hershey BaHersheys BaHershey's Bar (The article links say Hersheys, but in the actual article, it says Hershey's and nothing on Hershey.) 382.(Toilet Paper name change.)Scott's/Scott https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1356&dat=20000405&id=6_8jAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nAgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6464,3131248&hl=en 383.(Hardware Company name change.)Cool MasteCooler Master (Nothing.) 384.(Celebrity Actor name change.)Gene WildleGene Wilder (Nothing.) 385.(T.V Show name change.)It's Gary Shandling's Show/It's Garry Shandling's Show (Already said it was Gary Shandling.) 386.(Bandage name change.)Bandaid/Band-Aid (The article links say Bandaid, but the actual paper say Band-Aid.) 387.(Beer name change.)Jim Bean/Jim Beam (It says Jim Bean on the links, but the actual papers Jim Beam.) 388.(Condiment name change.)Nutrella/Nutella https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1346&dat=19870205&id=_6hOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=dvsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4644,2454378&hl=en 389.(Famous Magician name change.)Henry Houdini/Harry Houdini https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=861&dat=20070316&id=ypQ_AAAAIBAJ&sjid=DFYMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2812,3421627&hl=en 390.(Famous Author name change.)Dr. Suess/Dr. Seuss https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1914&dat=20010307&id=NaZGAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZvMMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2478,1154383&hl=en 391.(Spelling change.)Occurence/Occurrence https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1290&dat=19921026&id=3PxTAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zYwDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3252,6430308&hl=en 392.(Spelling change.)Yesturday/Yesterday https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&dat=19040212&id=m6JVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=qrkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1080,1911120&hl=en 393.(Company name change.)Osborne Book Co/Usborne Book Co (Nothing.) 394.(Movie Title name change.)Suddenly 30/13 Going On 30 (Nothing.) 395.(Fictional Character name change.)Snuffaluffagus/Mr. Snuffleupagus (Nothing.) 396.(Movie Quote change.)"It's lunch time."/"It's breakfast time."(The Hills Have Eyes.) (Nothing.) 397.(Protein drink name change.)Up'n'Go/Up & Go (Nothing.) 398.(Soap name change.)Murphy's Oil/Murphy Oil https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=886&dat=19930506&id=UisPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=A4UDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4010,576465&hl=en 399.(Book Title change.)The Portrait of Dorian Gray/The Picture of Dorian Gray https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1755&dat=19941006&id=VL0cAAAAIBAJ&sjid=eHwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6806,399782&hl=en 400.(Movie Title change.)The Picture of Dorian Gray/The Sins of Dorian Gray (Nothing.) 401.(Geography change.)Alaska is no longer connected to the U.S. (Nothing.) 402.(Ending change.)Lost ends with everyone being fine and getting off the island./ Different people survive and others who originally survived die. (Nothing.) 403.(Celebrity death before actual one.)Bob Marley alive after reported death. (Nothing.) 404.(Different causes of death.)Bob Marley killed by firearm./Bob Marley overdoses./Bob Marley dies of skin cancer. (Nothing.) 405.(Anatomy change.)Wrist Pulse check is in middle./Wrist Pulse check is in the inside. (Nothing.) 406.(Historical change.)All the new photos of Abraham Lincoln that have now recently popped up(Search for yourself.) (Nothing.) 407.(Celebrity appearance change.)Marilyn Monroe's famous mole has changed location. (Nothing.) 408.(Word definition change.)Opaque meaning changes to meaning not see through from what it was before. (Nothing.) 409.(Video game change.)2 or 3 magic meter upgrades in A Link To The Past./1 magic meter upgrade in A Link To The Past. (Nothing.) 410.(Movie Artwork change.)The Scream dark sky./The Scream orange sky. (Nothing.) 411.(Disney Park change.)Entering the Magic Kingdom through the castle, and the castle was closer to the end of Main Street. (Nothing.) 412.(Disney Park change.)Taking a monorail from the Orlando Airport to Disney World, it's now a train and it doesn't take you to Disney World. (Nothing.) 413.(Disney Park change.)A separate theme park in Orlando that itself is smaller that Walt Disney World and is not Universal Studios. (Nothing.) 414.(Space change.)Mars has no moons./Mars has 2 moons. (Nothing.) 415.(Political Figure name change.)Condoleeza Rice/Condoleezza Rice https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=266&dat=20060105&id=uwUxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=l-AFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5373,309393&hl=en 416.(Plant Species name change.)LavendaLavender https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1916&dat=19900309&id=W_kgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=dXQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3421,1341058&hl=en 417.(Movie Ending change.)The ending of Rosemary's Baby shows Satan's eyes flash over the screen when it used to show a demonic baby. (Nothing.) 418.(Pronunciation change.)"Welcome to Earf."/"Welcome to Earth."(Independence Day) (Nothing.) 419.(Added, altered, or missing characters.)A mysterious fifth character in The Young Ones. (Nothing.) 420.(Disney Park change.)A monorail at Disney World not all remember, but it's always been there. (Nothing.) 421.(Cleaning Product name change.)Dettox/Dettol (Nothing.) 422.(War Criminal name change.)Adolph HitleAdolf Hitler https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1842&dat=19781122&id=ex0sAAAAIBAJ&sjid=9sYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3039,5934672&hl=en 423.(War Criminal name change.)Josef Stalin/Joseph Stalin https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2209&dat=19780301&id=xYRjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=znkNAAAAIBAJ&pg=7079,43869&hl=en 424.(Famous Person appearance change.)Hitler's mustache being much smaller than it is today. (Nothing.) 425.(Phantom item.)McDogs still being sold today in one timeline, not being around for a while in another, and not existing in another. (Nothing.) 426.(Geography change.)Sandy Island being on numerous maps, websites, etc despite not even existing when people actually went to the area it supposedly was at. (Nothing.) 427.(Cereal name change.)Coco Krispies/Cocoa Krispies(Take a look at the previous mention of it being Crispies as well.) (Nothing.) 428.(Apparel Brand name change.)Osh Gosh B'gosh/Osh Kosh B'gosh (Nothing.) 429.(Logo change.)Yves Saint Lauren logo being different than today with letters going from up to down and not words going left to right. (Nothing.) 430.(Logo change.)Compaq logo being different than today with a different looking q. (Nothing.) 431.(Logo change.)The vo5 logo being different than today with a different sized o5 and no red over the v. (Nothing.) 432.(Logo change.)T.J. Maxx logo being different than today with the last x being in line with the other letters. (Nothing.) 433.(Painting change.) 1350 painting of humanoid in aircraft now looking behind himself instead of forward. (Nothing.) 434.(Board Game change.)Monopoly's Ventura Ave/Ventnor Ave (Nothing.) 435.(Movie Quote change.)"You dirty rat!"/"You dirty yellow bellied rat!" (Not exactly referencing the film, but the articles seem to name it that phrase if it means anything.) https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&rlz=1C1NHXL_enUS692US692&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=site:google.com%2Fnewspapers+%22you+dirty+rat%22 436.(Chocolate Milk name change.)Yoohoo/Yoo-Hoo https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&rlz=1C1NHXL_enUS692US692&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=site:google.com%2Fnewspapers+%22yoohoo%22 437.(Medicine name change.)Immodium/Imodium https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1350&dat=19990725&id=LEtPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=qgMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2247,3412146&hl=en Add-On: Crispy Creme as well as the others on here I can't find. (Nothing.) Add-On: Cup 'O' Noodles as well as the others on here I can't find. (Nothing.) 438.(Character Appearance change.)Mickey Mouse no longer seems to have shoulder straps. (Nothing.) 439.(I can't think of a name.)Daylight Savings Time/Daylight Saving Time https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2121&dat=20070222&id=oNkkAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GhIGAAAAIBAJ&pg=2685,1133018&hl=en 440.(Actor name change.)Lyle WagoneLyle Waggoner https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1298&dat=19751107&id=Cd9LAAAAIBAJ&sjid=BYsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6984,1028258&hl=en Add-On: Steven Segel as well as the others on here I can't find. (Nothing.) 441.(Laundry Detergent name change.)Tide Clean And CleaClear And Gentle (Nothing.) 442.(Animal change.)Cats now have a rough ridge around the ears. (Nothing.) 443.(Geography change.)Kazakhstan is much bigger now than before. (Nothing.) 444.(Painting change.)American Gothic woman is no longer looking straight, but instead right. She is also claimed to have had wrinkles and was the farmer's wife, not daughter. (Nothing.) 445.(Fictional Character name change.)Cousin It/Cousin Itt https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1346&dat=20020609&id=jiQxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=_v0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=6463,6755681&hl=en 446.(Dessert name change.)Joey Louis/Joe Louis/Jos Louis https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19780817&id=boMuAAAAIBAJ&sjid=g6EFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1084,735272&hl=en (Nothing on Joey Louie.) 447.(Famous Area name change.)Bridge Over The River Kwai/Bridge On The River Kwai https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1842&dat=19901119&id=6kseAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IscEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5744,2844702&hl=en 448.(Board Game name change.)Candyland/Candy Land https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2519&dat=19991124&id=kWdeAAAAIBAJ&sjid=M2ENAAAAIBAJ&pg=6237,4181711&hl=en 449.(Game Company name change.)Bethseda/Bethesda https://www.google.com/#q=%22bethseda%22 450.(Actress name change.)Shannon Doherty/Shannen Doherty https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Agoogle.com%2Fnewspapers&rlz=1C1NHXL_enUS692US692&oq=s&aqs=chrome.2.69i60j69i59l2j69i60l3.2274j0j9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#q=site:google.com%2Fnewspapers+%22shannon+doherty%22 451.(Musician name change.)Desi Arnez/Desi Arnaz https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1908&dat=19660504&id=m0grAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ktQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4575,281325&hl=en 452.(Musician name change.)Meatloaf/Meat Loaf https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=266&dat=19800619&id=SZcxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=utwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2748,6441361&hl=en 453.(Shampoo name change.)Nivea used to have a hyphen which is no longer there. (Nothing.) 454.(Anatomy change.)There may have not been a brain stem in your memory. (Nothing.) 455.(Candy Bar name change.)Babe Ruth/Baby Ruth (Nothing.) 456.(Candy Bar name change.)Jaw Breakers/Jaw Busters https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1310&dat=19811215&id=DfVVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WuIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5046,4067814&hl=en 457.(Gum name change.)Fruit Stripes/Fruit Stripe https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1955&dat=20010919&id=1PghAAAAIBAJ&sjid=rKIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1224,3159169&hl=en 458.(Cigarette name change.)Marboro/Marlboro (Nothing.)
50 stores you once loved that you'll never be able to shop at again
Kinney Shoes started in 1894. It had 467 stores at its peak, all of which shuttered in 1998.
A&P; was the largest grocery store chain in the US from 1915 to 1975. It filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2010 and again in 2015, closing its stores that year.
CompUSA started in 1984 as a chain specializing in computer hardware and software. But by 2007, Best Buy and other superstores had taken over, and the last CompUSA closed in 2012.
Mervyn's was a California-based department store founded in 1949 that had almost 200 locations in the western US. In 2008, the company declared bankruptcy and closed all of its stores.
Filene's Basement was an off-price store that started in Filene's and eventually grew to 20 locations. Its parent company went bankrupt in 2009, and by 2011 all Filene's Basement stores were closed. It currently operates as an online-only retailer.
Filene's Department Store, a Boston-based department store, went bankrupt in 2009, and there are no more brick-and-mortar locations left.
Ames Department Store had more than 700 locations at one point, but it was forced into bankruptcy twice due to debt and poor sales. In 2002, the remaining Ames stores shuttered.
Tower Records was one of the largest record stores in the 1990s, but it couldn't keep up with the rise of digital music. All Tower Records stores in the US were closed in 2006.
Circuit City had 567 stores in 2008. By 2009, they were all closed.
Marshall Field's name changed in 2005 when Federated Department Stores bought the chain and converted the stores to the company's more recognizable flagship brand, Macy's.
Kaufmann's was a department store that had 44 locations at its peak. In 2006, Macy's retired the name, and the brand disappeared.
Thom McAn was a chain of shoe stores that had over 1,400 stores at its peak in the 1960s. The chain had closed by 1996, but Thom McAn shoes are still available at Sears and Kmart.
Tweeter was an electronics chain that started in 1972, but all of its stores were closed by the end of 2008.
Linens 'n Things had over 500 stores in 2006, but by the end of 2008, they were all closed. The company still does business online.
Steve & Barry's sold inexpensive sportswear for teens. It closed all of its stores in 2009.
Sport Chalet, which first opened in 1959, abruptly closed all of its stores in 2016.
Gadzooks was a teen clothing store that was around from 1983 to 2005. It filed for bankruptcy in its final year and was purchased by Forever 21, which then closed all of the stores.
Hecht's Department Store was founded in 1857. In 2005, the chain was purchased by Macy's and all locations were either turned into Macy's stores or closed.
Levitz Furniture was founded way back in 1910. It declared bankruptcy twice: first in 1997, and then in 2005. It eventually closed its nearly 80 stores for good in 2008.
Teavana's 379 locations were closed by its parent company Starbucks in 2017.
Discovery Channel stores sold educational books, videos, and gifts, but all 103 standalone stores closed in 2007.
Limited Too, The Limited's children's store, launched in 1987. Its success began dwindling in the early 2000s, and all Limited Too stores were eventually rebranded as Justice by 2008.
The Limited abruptly shut down all 250 of its stores in 2017.
Wet Seal, a teen clothing store, filed for bankruptcy in 2015 and closed for good in 2017. Even though its stores are closed, you can still shop online.
hhgregg, an electronics and home appliances retailer, struggled for years before it decided to close all of its stores in 2017.
Warner Bros. Studio Store used to compete with Disney's, but the company closed all of them in 2001.
Media Play was opened by the same company as Sam Goody, serving as a big-box version of the store. It closed for good in 2006.
Sam Goody music stores opened back in the 1940s but suffered with the rise of digital media. Most Sam Goody stores were either shuttered or converted into other brands like FYE.
Zany Brainy stores filed for bankruptcy in 2001, and the educational toy retailer's founder, David Schlessinger, now runs the discount company Five Below.
Sports Authority once had more than 200 stores across 33 states, but competition from online stores and other retailers drove the company into bankruptcy in 2016. It closed all its stores and sold its website to Dick's Sporting Goods.
Virgin Megastores no longer operates in the US, in large part because of the rapidly declining CD market that it was a big player in.
Shaper Image used to have a large physical retail footprint before it declared bankruptcy in 2008. It now sells its merchandise through its website, catalog, and third-party retail partners, but you can't shop in a Sharper Image store anymore.
B. Dalton Books was acquired by Barnes & Noble in 1987 and continued to operate until late 2009, officially closing in January 2010.
K·B Toys operated over 1,300 stores across all 50 states. The chain announced it would be going out of business in 2008, and by early 2009 all locations were closed.
Borders Books & Music stores also all closed shortly after the company was forced to liquidate in 2011.
Waldenbooks was founded in 1933 and grew to 250 locations in 15 years. In 1994, the company merged with Borders, and in 2011 all Waldenbooks stores closed when Borders Group liquidated.
Blockbuster Music was created in 1992 after its parent company Blockbuster acquired the Sound Warehouse and Music Plus music chains. In 1998 the chain was sold to Wherehouse entertainment and then closed for good.
Blockbuster, the iconic video rental store, announced in 2013 that it would begin closing most locations. As of earlier this month, only a single Blockbuster remains in Bend, Oregon.
Radio Shack closed more than 1,000 stores in 2017 after filing for bankruptcy last March.
... and Younkers.
... Herberger's ...
... Elder-Beerman ...
... Carson's ...
... Boston Store ...
... Bergner's ...
All 256 of the Bon-Ton stores will be liquidated this year. The Bon-Ton stores include its namesake ...
Imaginarium, an educational toy store, first started popping up in malls in the 1980s. It began closing stores in the 1990s, and by 2003, its parent company Toys R Us closed all of its remaining stores.
Kids R Us, a subsidiary of Toys R Us, was opened in 1983 to sell children's clothing. By 2003, the chain was discontinued and all 146 stores closed.
Babies R Us also closed after Toys R Us filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
Toys R Us announced it would be closing or selling all 735 of its US stores after filing a motion to liquidate its US business earlier this year. The toy retailer had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in September 20347.
50 stores you once loved that you'll never be able to shop at again
Kinney Shoes started in 1894. It had 467 stores at its peak, all of which shuttered in 1998.
A&P; was the largest grocery store chain in the US from 1915 to 1975. It filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2010 and again in 2015, closing its stores that year.
CompUSA started in 1984 as a chain specializing in computer hardware and software. But by 2007, Best Buy and other superstores had taken over, and the last CompUSA closed in 2012.
Mervyn's was a California-based department store founded in 1949 that had almost 200 locations in the western US. In 2008, the company declared bankruptcy and closed all of its stores.
Filene's Basement was an off-price store that started in Filene's and eventually grew to 20 locations. Its parent company went bankrupt in 2009, and by 2011 all Filene's Basement stores were closed. It currently operates as an online-only retailer.
Filene's Department Store, a Boston-based department store, went bankrupt in 2009, and there are no more brick-and-mortar locations left.
Ames Department Store had more than 700 locations at one point, but it was forced into bankruptcy twice due to debt and poor sales. In 2002, the remaining Ames stores shuttered.
Tower Records was one of the largest record stores in the 1990s, but it couldn't keep up with the rise of digital music. All Tower Records stores in the US were closed in 2006.
Circuit City had 567 stores in 2008. By 2009, they were all closed.
Marshall Field's name changed in 2005 when Federated Department Stores bought the chain and converted the stores to the company's more recognizable flagship brand, Macy's.
Kaufmann's was a department store that had 44 locations at its peak. In 2006, Macy's retired the name, and the brand disappeared.
Thom McAn was a chain of shoe stores that had over 1,400 stores at its peak in the 1960s. The chain had closed by 1996, but Thom McAn shoes are still available at Sears and Kmart.
Tweeter was an electronics chain that started in 1972, but all of its stores were closed by the end of 2008.
Linens 'n Things had over 500 stores in 2006, but by the end of 2008, they were all closed. The company still does business online.
Steve & Barry's sold inexpensive sportswear for teens. It closed all of its stores in 2009.
Sport Chalet, which first opened in 1959, abruptly closed all of its stores in 2016.
Gadzooks was a teen clothing store that was around from 1983 to 2005. It filed for bankruptcy in its final year and was purchased by Forever 21, which then closed all of the stores.
Hecht's Department Store was founded in 1857. In 2005, the chain was purchased by Macy's and all locations were either turned into Macy's stores or closed.
Levitz Furniture was founded way back in 1910. It declared bankruptcy twice: first in 1997, and then in 2005. It eventually closed its nearly 80 stores for good in 2008.
Teavana's 379 locations were closed by its parent company Starbucks in 2017.
Discovery Channel stores sold educational books, videos, and gifts, but all 103 standalone stores closed in 2007.
Limited Too, The Limited's children's store, launched in 1987. Its success began dwindling in the early 2000s, and all Limited Too stores were eventually rebranded as Justice by 2008.
The Limited abruptly shut down all 250 of its stores in 2017.
Wet Seal, a teen clothing store, filed for bankruptcy in 2015 and closed for good in 2017. Even though its stores are closed, you can still shop online.
hhgregg, an electronics and home appliances retailer, struggled for years before it decided to close all of its stores in 2017.
Warner Bros. Studio Store used to compete with Disney's, but the company closed all of them in 2001.
Media Play was opened by the same company as Sam Goody, serving as a big-box version of the store. It closed for good in 2006.
Sam Goody music stores opened back in the 1940s but suffered with the rise of digital media. Most Sam Goody stores were either shuttered or converted into other brands like FYE.
Zany Brainy stores filed for bankruptcy in 2001, and the educational toy retailer's founder, David Schlessinger, now runs the discount company Five Below.
Sports Authority once had more than 200 stores across 33 states, but competition from online stores and other retailers drove the company into bankruptcy in 2016. It closed all its stores and sold its website to Dick's Sporting Goods.
Virgin Megastores no longer operates in the US, in large part because of the rapidly declining CD market that it was a big player in.
Shaper Image used to have a large physical retail footprint before it declared bankruptcy in 2008. It now sells its merchandise through its website, catalog, and third-party retail partners, but you can't shop in a Sharper Image store anymore.
B. Dalton Books was acquired by Barnes & Noble in 1987 and continued to operate until late 2009, officially closing in January 2010.
K·B Toys operated over 1,300 stores across all 50 states. The chain announced it would be going out of business in 2008, and by early 2009 all locations were closed.
Borders Books & Music stores also all closed shortly after the company was forced to liquidate in 2011.
Waldenbooks was founded in 1933 and grew to 250 locations in 15 years. In 1994, the company merged with Borders, and in 2011 all Waldenbooks stores closed when Borders Group liquidated.
Blockbuster Music was created in 1992 after its parent company Blockbuster acquired the Sound Warehouse and Music Plus music chains. In 1998 the chain was sold to Wherehouse entertainment and then closed for good.
Blockbuster, the iconic video rental store, announced in 2013 that it would begin closing most locations. As of earlier this month, only a single Blockbuster remains in Bend, Oregon.
Radio Shack closed more than 1,000 stores in 2017 after filing for bankruptcy last March.
... and Younkers.
... Herberger's ...
... Elder-Beerman ...
... Carson's ...
... Boston Store ...
... Bergner's ...
All 256 of the Bon-Ton stores will be liquidated this year. The Bon-Ton stores include its namesake ...
Imaginarium, an educational toy store, first started popping up in malls in the 1980s. It began closing stores in the 1990s, and by 2003, its parent company Toys R Us closed all of its remaining stores.
Kids R Us, a subsidiary of Toys R Us, was opened in 1983 to sell children's clothing. By 2003, the chain was discontinued and all 146 stores closed.
Babies R Us also closed after Toys R Us filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
Toys R Us announced it would be closing or selling all 735 of its US stores after filing a motion to liquidate its US business earlier this year. The toy retailer had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in September 20347.
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