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26-Aug-2006

gaylords department store

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Joe Sandor 01-Apr-2025 04:36
I was the Asst Manager at a Giant Tiger store when Gaylord's bought them. I opened and ran the new Lorain, Ohio Gaylord's. Later, I ran the Cleveland store when the manager was arrested for stealing the full Sunday's receipts after losing a big Kentucky Derby bet to bookies. I also opened the new east-side store. It was a fun ride until I switched to manufacturing and ended up running auto plants in three different countries. If you can run a big-box store, auto plants turn out to be a snap.
Guest 10-Jan-2023 00:00
I did inventory at Gaylord's in New Castle Pennsylvania in 1970 and 71. They asked the employees to bring their families on inventory day. I was 15-16 years old and my cousin worked there. It was an easy day make some cash.
Johnny Gaylords 17-Oct-2019 19:56
I worked at the store in Chestnut Hill Plaza in Newark DE, it made the Goodwill Store look like the Sacks 5th Avenue. There were also stores in Wilmington at Centerville Road, Miller Road, and one other....it was a crappy store, 3rd rate merchandise, customers robbing us blind, skeleton crew, (never enough employees hired or scheduled to cover all the departments), incompetent management and even worse corporate execs. Was glad I was only there for slightly less than 2 years. Security guards were a joke, they'd miss TV's and car stereos walking out the front door because they are on their break. Shoplifters had a field day there. I remember employees getting into fist fights with each other on the sales floor, right in front of customers. Some male managers and female employees were having affairs and would F--K in the back office or store room. The food served at the snack bar was not fit for a dog. The barber shop was a joke, they would butcher people's haircuts. Some employees would put on new rollerblades and skate around the store, then put them back when done as if nothing ever happened. Some people would put clothes on layaway then never come back for them. I remember the Great Cabbage Patch Kids riot of 1984. Those ugly dolls were the hot item that year. We had to lock all the doors and let the customers in 3 or 4 at a time, people got impatient and bum rushed the doors, breaking thru. They had to call the state police.
Patty 24-Oct-2016 04:23
I remember one very fondly in Montgomery, Alabama. It was near Bellas Hess
Guest 19-Apr-2016 15:09
I remember Harold Drury. He was a very nice guy. I was the Domestics buyer from 1972-1985.
My name is Irwin Schubert
Paul Moyer 31-Oct-2015 00:09
I worked for them for 15 years and closed their last store in Cleveland in 1983 My first job was at the store you pictured.
Guest 20-Aug-2015 11:22
There was one in Meridian, MS, also. It was my favorite place for my mom to take me shopping because they stocked the best selection of model cars, airplanes, boats, etc.
Kim 07-Aug-2015 21:06
I remember the Gaylords that was in Barberton,Ohio used to go there with my mom lots of good memories
Debbie 13-May-2015 16:04
Was there a Gaylord's in both Biloxi and Gulfport, MS? There is a dispute about it on Facebook saying there never was one in Biloxi.
donna watson dollar 05-May-2015 09:17
I am trying to find Brenda Jones that worked with me at Gaylords on North Lumpkin Road in Columbus, Ga. in 1971. She was married to Eddie Jones. She was my friend and I would like to reconnect with her.
kim kirby 13-Jun-2014 20:48
im desperatley trying to find a kids plastic red pedal car that i got from gaylords in aurora around 1971-72 if anyone has any suggestions on what it might have been called please let me know.it fits a 5-8 year old kid.
Guest 30-Mar-2014 01:36
I remember shopping at Gaylord's in Gulfport, MS on Pass Road. My mom used to buy me ice cream from Gaylord's when I was a little girl. That was some of the best ice cream EVER.
Colleen 27-Jan-2014 05:10
I remember Gaylords dept. store in Montgomery, AL as I worked there part-time 10th-12th grades. The security guard Tim who was much older than me was the last person at the store. He was always after me to date. There was so much theft going on that the manager of the store threatened to give everyone a lie detector test. Turned out that Tim's sister and aunt who worked the cash registers, were making shopping lists and when their friends came through the check-out lines, they didn't ring up the goods. Yep, that entire family got busted and fired for letting thousands of dollars of goods go out of the store including the security guard Tim who took whatever he wanted when he locked up the store.
Billy Foxworth 22-Dec-2013 03:06
Anybody remember Harold Drury?? He was a vice-president of Gaylord's???
Billy Foxworth 22-Dec-2013 03:03
I worked for Hardlines Inc. at Gaylords in Montgomery and Columbus. I later started to work for Gaylords and opened stores in Dothan, New Orleans, Biloxi and Montgomery. I worked with Harold Drury. My Name is Billy Foxworth.
Guest 15-Oct-2013 06:58
I met my husband, Luis of 35 years at Gaylord's on N Lumpkin RD, Columbus, GA. After we got married I transferred to the store across town on Hamilton RD. Lots of good memories and som wonderful people.
rgrussell 19-Apr-2013 17:27
I worked at Gaylords on North Lumpkin Rd in Columbus Georgia, I worked in security and the electronics department. I remember Pres Morris, Scott Gordon, Lewis, Rose, and Eddie Jones, Gary Laid was the store manager. My boss Ray worked all night before Chirstmas Eve, as it turned out the store was packed, when I came to work Christmas Eve day it was quiet. Robert
Guest 13-Nov-2012 01:32
My first job was with Gaylords in Gretna, Louisiana in 1979. Absolutely no work experience and I went in as the hardware department manager. This translated to being the ONLY employee in the hardware department, day or night. I learned a lot though because I did it all. To this day I still use many of the skills I picked up there. Ya gotta go to Gaylords with the Go Getem Gator :-)
Guest 18-Oct-2012 23:51
I remember Gaylords Department Store on North Lumpkin Rd. in Columbus, Ga. I worked there as department manager of sporting goods and toys and Mr. Spitz was the manager who hired me. I even found a few pay stubs in a box in my attic from way back then. They were going to send me off for manager training, but then had to cancel due to their financial situation. I left there and went to work for Howard Brothers, which lasted just a few years longer. Stephen
Karen 25-Jun-2012 22:14
I lived right behind the gaylords on the atlanta highway in forest hills. I remember when they first started building it and they cleared all the woods out. Who remembers what went in after gaylords? I know the flea market has been there for a while but cant remember if anything went in after gaylords...seems like it was another store kinda like gaylords.
Guest 09-Jun-2012 04:02
My first retail job was with Gaylords in New orleans. I remember to this day of wating for what seemed a life time to interview with store manager Bruce Guy. Lucky for me i was hired to work in there new locatio of what was a old woolsworth builiding with a second floor that served has a wherehouse in New orleans East. What a great timm!!!!
Rick Pater 29-May-2012 23:40
I was the Asst store Manager and Store manager of a few Gaylords in the south. I started out as a trainee in New Kensington PA.
I worked all 3 stores in New Orleans as well as Panama City and then up north where I ended my career in New Castle PA.
Patricia Padgett 06-Mar-2012 20:26
My grandmother worked for the Betty Gay Store in downtown Atlanta from 1965 until about 1969 or 1970. No one seems to remember what street it was located on. I was think Marietta Street, but I don't remember the street name my self!
Scott 15-Dec-2011 03:08
I remember Christmas shopping at the Gaylord's in Chickasaw, Alabama in the Village Square Shopping Center on Craft Highway. This was in the early 70's. There was also a Rose's Drug Store.
ray brazell 07-Dec-2011 02:49
the name gaylords came from betty gay stores and lords dept. stores. -ray brazell
Richard S. Smith 27-Oct-2011 19:40
I was lucky enough to get my first computer programming job with Giant Tigers, Cleveland Ohio, Edsall road, which was purchased by Gaylords. They moved the IT department and HQ to NYC in 1969.. I was hired by Virginia Turner and Larry Layman. Thank you for the great ride. I owe Giant Tigers, Gaylords, Virginia and Larry for giving me a start to a great future.
Richard S. Smith now of Falls Church, Va
ray brazell 14-Aug-2011 14:48
hi folks my name is ray brazell . i was the last store manager for gaylords dept. store on the atlanta hwy in montgomery,alabama . the people i work with at that store was the best ! i spent alot of years and moving with that company but the people made it great . from mobile,al. to fayettville, n.c. to columbus , ga and back to montgomery,al . i will always remember the great times we had ! any ole employees e-mail me at rbrazell2010@hotmail.com and let's chat !
Guest 14-Jun-2011 04:00
There were two in Montgomery, AL-one on Atlanta Hwy. and one on the "other" side of town (Southern By-Pass-?). I remember going into K-Mart once and hearing on the overhead speaker/sound system, "ya gotta go to Gaylords". I thought that was awfully ironic!!
Guest 10-May-2011 23:49
I remember one in Panama City, Fla., on 15th Street--at the corner of 15th and Jenks. I bought many many toys there.
Mike 01-Apr-2011 12:53
Gaylords National Corp (Gaylords Stores) was based in Secaucus NJ and was acquired by Zayre Corp in the early 1980's. They had stores throughout the Eastern and Southern US. Their jingle "Ya gotta go to Gaylords" used to drive me crazy.
They went under because the upper management was penny-wise and dollar-foolish.They were too busy counting their pennies to realize that their dollar bills were flying out the window. They would have less-than skeleton crews on hand to staff their stores and the customers were tired of not having anyone to help them, or wait too long at the registers......and the shoplifters would rob them blind.

After a few years, even Zayre went belly-up, they were bought by Ames...who eventually went under too !!
ray 26-Jan-2011 00:48
Wes, do you recall the fingerprinting and photo taken when paying with a check at the Gaylords in Panama City?
lou muenz29-Oct-2010 18:35
my friend linda informed me that gaylords intl. corp. was formerly "giant tiger" and they existed till the 70s.
Guest 29-Oct-2010 12:41
I remember one in Montgomery, Alabama.

Mickey
Kathy 25-Oct-2010 21:26
:I remember Gaylord's there was one in Chickasaw, AL
Wes 17-May-2009 14:41
I dont know that one but I remember the one in Panama City Beach Florida in the 70's. Woolworth also and TG&Y.
Guest 27-Aug-2006 16:15
Great shot
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