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MickCollins t1_jdnnrbo wrote

Reply to comment by robertfcowper in A Rickel Home Center location in Menlo Park, NJ sometime in the 1990s. Rickel was an early forerunner to Home Depot based in South Plainfield. Bulldozed for a Target. Photo from Flickr user Jeffrey Johnson featured on Facebook page Remembering Retail. by 7nationarmy

Ground Round has made a small return, 10 locations open, most of them in states along the Canadian border (not sure why that is).

I remember my brother working in Jamesway in between...I want to say his freshman and sophomore year. When they closed it turned into a Frank's (a gardening store) and he worked there too, but did too much lifting for someone too small too be lifting without any muscle and screwed himself up for the rest of his life.

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robertfcowper t1_jdntolw wrote

Frank's sounds familiar. Feels like I can picture the logo with a flower within the letters. Did you grow up near Brick?

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VelocityGrrl39 t1_jdoloed wrote

There was a Frank’s on 35 in Sea Girt, not far across from the little strip mall that had Claire’s and The Gap.

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MickCollins t1_jdo1qdd wrote

Nope. A state over, in fact; just visited Middlesex area a lot because both grandparent sets were around there as was extended family. But we lived close enough that most of the stores were the same. But yeah, almost guaranteed to be the same Frank's.

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LongWindedInNJ t1_jdqf6wa wrote

Franks brings back memories. I grew up in Holmdel and there was once a Frank’s Garden Center on the northbound side of Rt35 in nearby Hazlet. It was closed and subsequently abandoned lot for as long as I can remember: mid/late 80s through maybe the late 00s? I think it’s a Lidl now.

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