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Pointyears wrote:The Crow Road Jolly Giant is indeed now Arnold Clark. I found a 1982 school diary entry where my brother pretty much details a virtual tour of the inside of the store:
"When I went in there was a Jolly Giant dummy. He is looking after the trolleys. I went through a metal roundabout to get in. All the games were when I went in I walked around a corner there was star wars and back up and there was centurions and gremlins (?) back round the corner there was girls dollys (sic) and stuff fir drawing. After that there was bikes and prams. Up from that was pac man and space invaders. I got a pac man to play called munchman (?) and we got star wars figures. Figures from june with sting in it were at the till then we paid with uncle brian then we went to get soup at the cafe..."
Pointyears wrote:Brilliant! I recognise it now. Must be a 1985 entry - I'll ask!
Pointyears wrote:It *was* 1985 and the Star Wars figures were Chewbacca and Medic droid.
I know what you mean about the final, rare figures and I kick myself reminiscing now. In our native East Kilbride, our John Menzies, had stacks of Yak Face and Anakin Skywalker (old man version) I was all about He-Man and disregarded them. I wake up in cold sweats about that!
Goldbergs in Glasgow had a toy clearout in 1988 when it was closing. They had bins of the fabled last seventeen. Again, i cared not for them. They even had the jawa with gold coin, racks of them! Another wake up screaming in the night memory. By todays value the collective figures in those John Menzies/Goldberg's bins would be in the thousands!
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