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The store specializes in both new and used video games and music. It was founded in 1993 in Columbia, Missouri by Kurt Jellinek and Paul Zacharias, originally as a music store. The store is known for selling local independent music , its collection of classic games, and for giving good credit for trade-ins.
Sketch by St. Louis Post-Dispatch journalist Marguerite Martyn of the opening of the Grand-Leader department store on September 8, 1906. Stix, Baer and Fuller (sometimes called "Stix" or SBF or the Grand-Leader) was a department store chain in St. Louis, Missouri that operated from 1892 to 1984.
In 2006, Nordstrom announced plans to open a store at the mall. In December 2008, Nordstrom said that due to the economy, it would delay the opening from 2010 until 2011. [2] The store opened to the public on September 23, 2011. [8] The recession hit Galleria sales hard in 2008, as Jimmy'z and Mark Shale closed.
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Construction began on the mall in 1972. Its anchor stores at the time were Sears and Stix Baer & Fuller, a local chain based in nearby St. Louis. [3] The mall's initial roster of stores and services included Forum Cafeteria, Walgreen Drug, Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream, Camelot Music, Davy Jones Locker, The Limited, Orange Bowl snack bar, Pass Pets, and an Aladdin's Castle video arcade.
The Tilt! arcade closed in the summer of 2007, moving most of their arcades to other stores, namely their newest location in St. Louis Mills, despite being rated as one of the top 3 arcades in the St Louis area in 2003. [50] [51] Steve & Barry's closed in 2008, a year before the company became defunct. [52] In early 2009, Dillard's left. [53]
The used games were often sold for 50% less than new copies, and customers could sell used video games for either money or store credit that could be used to purchase other games. [7] The value of a trade-in varied between 10 cents and $55; [ 8 ] [ 41 ] Funco changed the offered prices for games twice a month, much like the stock market does ...
River Roads Mall, also known as River Roads Shopping Center, was an enclosed shopping mall located in the city of Jennings, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Opened in 1962 as one of the nation's first shopping malls, [1] it featured J. C. Penney, F. W. Woolworth Company, Kroger, and Stix, Baer & Fuller as its anchor stores. The ...