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Re: I'm a Toys "R" Us Kid --nt--
02/16/12 08:54 AM
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> > Anyone remember Child World? They were the giant toy outlet around these parts
> before
> > Toys R Us blew into town.
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> Yup. There's a Home Depot now where the one around here once stood. I had a friend
> who worked there briefly. He figured out how to steal video games from them- put them
> outside the back door and pick them up later (or have someone grab them for you while
> you continue to work). Later they figured it out and had a security guard sit back
> there. I haven't seen him in 20 years, but I do remember he being in the local
> paper's police blotter a few years after I stopped hanging with him for burglary or
> something similar.
We had something called Toy'O (I think), had a Hippo for it's mascot. My parents only took me there once. Got some finger puppet squirrel family with a little log house (made of cloth and foam) and it came with a story book.
It went out of business many many years back. Now the building is a place for booze. So I guess in a way it's still popular for some........... "children". 
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