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Post by spockoda on Mar 2, 2018 17:49:14 GMT -6
I don't know if anyone ever had a Ben Franklin store around them or not but they were like the Alco/Duckwall's chain, meaning a smaller chain of retail stores. The Ben Franklin that was near me ages ago was like a variety store as it sold fabric and sewing items, records and tapes, trading cards, assorted hardware items, and toys. I remember sometime between 1988-1990 this store still had a Secret Wars Kang and Super Powers Wonder Woman still on the shelf. This was the time in my life when I wasn't involved in collecting but I remembered playing with figures from both of those lines so I decided to buy the Kang to keep packaged thinking it might be worth money some day. On that note, I probably should have bought the Wonder Woman. A few years after I got back into collecting I opened the Kang thinking I might collect Secret Wars figures and a packaged Kang wasn't bringing much coin on the collector's market anyway. I eventually sold the figure and made $3-5 on him.
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Post by 3 3/4"collector on Mar 16, 2018 23:09:49 GMT -6
ive never actually seen a Ben Franklins, and for some reason i was under the impression that they went out of business in like the 60s or something. honestly i think i only know them at all because Sam Walton managed one or something before he started his own store, and for some reason i was thinking he bought them out, like i sad way back in the 60s or something. i have no idea why i though this, but i did.
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Post by spockoda on Mar 17, 2018 19:42:05 GMT -6
ive never actually seen a Ben Franklins, and for some reason i was under the impression that they went out of business in like the 60s or something. honestly i think i only know them at all because Sam Walton managed one or something before he started his own store, and for some reason i was thinking he bought them out, like i sad way back in the 60s or something. i have no idea why i though this, but i did. This one I used to go to went under in the early to mid 90's, never seen or heard of one anywhere else around me. It was kind of a neat little store though. |
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Post by figurecollector on Mar 18, 2018 10:37:30 GMT -6
Wikipedia indicates that they are still in operation in small towns in the US. It sounds like it is on the order of a discount store like Dollar General.
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Post by 3 3/4"collector on Mar 19, 2018 2:02:07 GMT -6
wow yeah i had totally thought they closed a long long time ago. i would kind of like to see one, not that im going to go looking.
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vorko79
Toy Aisle Terror
Jun 14, 2018 23:05:39 GMT -6
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Post by vorko79 on Aug 21, 2019 22:54:39 GMT -6
Had a Ben Franklin in Gaylord Michigan in the mid 80s great memories going there and maybe getting a toy
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imj
Garage Sale Scavenger
Aug 28, 2019 11:32:28 GMT -6
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Post by imj on Aug 28, 2019 11:56:41 GMT -6
Wow. I never heard of this chain, but it does sound a lot like Big Lots - a sort of second hand yet new merchandise store that picks up old storage and warehouse inventory. I can't imagine finding any carded, legit 80's action figure on a retail shelf nowadays.
A few weeks ago I found a Hot Wheels Abrams Enterprise at a Wal-mart that must've been in a box in the back for the last ten years. I thought that was a big deal....
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